![]() ![]() Obama Does Little to Counter China in the South China Sea Some estimates suggest as much as $1 billion was thrown at these groups without much success. The administration provided assistance to groups with jihadist orientations through the CIA, on the basis they were anti-ISIS. ![]() The power vacuum created by the Obama administration’s policies opened the door for the rise of ISIS. Many of these jihadists aligned with the Libya Dawn militias in Libya and the Free Syrian Army in Syria that defected to ISIS. ![]() The Obama administration provided covert support for jihadist movements in Libya and Syria. The directive opened the door to support for Islamist movements that overthrew the governments of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, as well as the destabilization of Syria. He was wrong.īarack Obama signed a still highly classified presidential declaration in 2010 that set the stage for the Arab Spring uprisings called PSD-11. That provided Russia with combat experience that its troops later applied in the second invasion of Ukraine. After the Syrian Civil War broke out and after Russia invaded Ukraine, Obama all but invited Russian intervention in Syria. ![]()
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