Colbert's Late Show brightly illuminates Trump's Syria policy in just over a minute

Trump's Syria policy imagined as a board game
(Image credit: screenshot/Twitter/The Late Show)

Most geopolitical analysts view President Trump's unilateral decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria (maybe) as a colossal strategic blunder that unleashed chaos in a combustible corner of the world, opens America's Kurdish allies to ethnic cleansing by Turkey, ends U.S. influence in a key corner of the Middle East, paves the way for an Islamic State revival, and hands an easy win to the autocratic leaders of Turkey, Russia, and Syria.

Trump calls it a great victory.

Thursday's Late Show tried to explain the rules of Trump's version of foreign policy by creating a new edition of the geopolitical strategy game Risk.

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Presumably, the game is for ages 70 and up, and its target audience is people who just want to watch the world burn.

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Peter Weber, The Week US

Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.