Vice President-elect J.D. Vance supports President-elect Donald Trump's stance of “not getting involved” in Syria, saying what is happening now is not a “fight” for the United States.
In a post about X, Vance I wrote He said the United States should “disengage” from what's happening in Syria rather than get involved. Vance's post came after Syria's Bashar al-Assad regime collapsed and Assad reportedly fled the country.
“As President Trump has said, this is not our fight and we should stay out of it,” Vance wrote.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said commented Regarding the situation in Syria, he said that “in an unprecedented move, Syrian opposition fighters have captured many cities.”
President Trump said Syria was a “mess” but not a friend of the United States, saying the United States “should not be involved” and saying Syria was “not our fight.”
“In an unprecedented move, Syrian rebels have completely captured a number of cities in a highly coordinated offensive and are now on the outskirts of Damascus, clearly preparing to make a huge move towards overthrowing Assad. “We are,” President Trump wrote. “Russia, with its strong ties to Ukraine and having lost more than 600,000 soldiers there, appears unable to stop this literal march through Syria, a country it has long defended.”
President Trump went on to say, “This is where former President Obama refused to honor his promise to uphold the red line in the sand, and Russia intervened and all hell broke out. But now they're probably going to attack Assad. Like myself, they get kicked out, and that might actually be the best thing that can happen to them.”
“In any case, Syria is a mess, but it's not our friend. The United States should have nothing to do with it,” Trump continued. “This is not our fight. Let's play. Don't get involved!”
Breitbart News' Joel Pollack reported that “according to Kremlin sources,” Assad has defected to Russia, which “has propped up his regime for a decade.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin has supported the Assad regime for 10 years as an extension of Soviet-era support. But when the Syrian rebels began advancing after Hezbollah was annihilated by Israel in the Lebanon War, troops were tied up in Ukraine and unable to help defend the regime.
News of Assad's defection to Russia came after reports that Assad's plane had crashed.
