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Trump’s plan for Syrian civil war stalls after risk board game runs out of pieces

By Duffel Blog Staff · Bureau · 1 minute

Filed 5 October 2022 · 1536

WASHINGTON — A new plan touted by President Donald Trump to end the nearly six-year-long Syrian Civil War has reportedly stalled after the president and his staff realized they did not have enough different colors and pieces to represent all the different factions in the country, sources confirmed today.

"It's a pretty ridiculous oversight for a strategy game that supposedly prides itself on realism," said Michael Flynn, the president's national security adviser.

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