“The two countries that are most not happy about this decision are Russia and China, because they liked to watch us get bogged down in this quagmire and spend a lot of money on it,” the US president wrote on Twitter on a microblog.

He emphasized that the Americans elected him to lead the country out of “these ridiculous endless wars” in the interests of the peoples who “dislike” the United States.

According to Trump, when he became president, the US army was "completely exhausted", while now the country's military forces are on the rise.

Earlier, trump announced the US’s readiness to “get out of the endless wars” and withdraw US troops from Syria.

Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed the beginning of the withdrawal of US troops in northeast Syria, where Ankara plans to begin an operation to create a security zone.