On April 27, 2016, Black began a three-day trip to Syria and explained his trip in a series of Twitter exchanges with The Washington Post. Black wrote that the US was "allied with two of the most vile nations on earth, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, which are intent on imposing a [Wahhabi] fundamentalist government on the Syrian people."
On April 28, 2016, while visiting a hospital in Damascus treating soldiers who had lost limbs fighting terrorists, Black expressed concern over the US sanctions that had prevented Syrian hospitals from importing the materials to manufacture artificial limbs, and to provide other medical care. He described the US sanctions as a crime against humanity, in a country that had provided free medical to all in public hospitals. He said, "We should stop this dirty war and lift the economic siege."
Black viewed the Syrian conflict as a plot by foreign powers to destroy the country and utilize false news in mainstream media.
Senator John McCain's trip to Syria
While Black entered Syria legally, the Republican Senator from Arizona, John McCain, entered Syria in May 2013 illegally, without any visa or border controls. Illegal entry by foreigners into Arizona was a major issue to McCain domestically, but he broke the law himself deliberately. McCain entered Idlib illegally from Turkey and was hosted by the terrorists employed by the US. McCain was later accused of meeting with terrorists in the US media after one of the men he posed with in a photo op there was identified as an international kidnapper. Another man in the photo was identified by some as the future leader of ISIS, Baghdadi, who was later killed in Idlib, where the McCain photo was taken.
In 2017 President Trump shut down the CIA program that supported the terrorists in Syria.
Poll in the US about Ukraine
"There was a time when an international crisis would unite the country behind both the federal government's response as well as its leaders," said Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute. "That time is gone."
Only 18 percent of Republicans surveyed by Monmouth approve of Biden's handling of the Ukraine crisis as compared to 77 percent of Democrats. 69 percent of those surveyed for the Monmouth University poll released on May 11 support sending more US military troops to Eastern Europe to deter Russian President Vladimir Putin from further stepping up the conflict, but only 41 percent support putting American military boots on Ukrainian soil.
Biden on Taiwan
The Taiwanese are following US army basic training videos online as they practice drills preparing for a possible war against China.
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