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Alex Ward, co-host of the Worldly Podcast National Security Reporter Vox. A little over a

week ago, we covered that President Trump announced that he wanted to withdraw 50 US troops from

Northern Syria and just after that announcement, we left it at the fact that Turkey was a massive

troops and tanks and armored military vehicles on the Syrian border. What has happened since then?

Basically the nightmare scenario. Despite growing international condemnation,

attacked on all sides, the Kurds are pounded by Turkish artillery with death and destruction on the

ground. Trump didn't want those troops to come into Syria, they came into Syria. Turkish

troops along with their own proxies in the country had started to take over towns.

Advancing with the help of Arab militias, the same ones we saw last night executing Kurds by

the roadside were added again today. US officials telling me, see news. Killing Kurds American allies,

including a female Kurdish politician, you're seeing at least over 100,000 people being displaced

because of fighting that's happening. Kurdish hospitals have been overwhelmed with casualties,

small children among them. Turkish back militias took ground quickly and ruthlessly,

and even executed these Kurdish soldiers and civilians on the roadside. So if you were looking

for the worst case scenario of what could have happened when Trump made his withdrawal announcement,

we're already there.

When exactly did Turkish forces enter Syria? The best reporting we have is that it was Wednesday,

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