White House: Turkey to invade Northern Syria
Source: Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says Turkey will soon invade Northern Syria, casting uncertainty on the fate of the Kurdish fighters allied with the U.S. against in a campaign against the Islamic State group.
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Why isn't this up on DU yet??? You guys sleeping?
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Freethinker65
(10,012 posts)This is so important.
Trump is effectively letting Turkey massacre the Kurds, our allies against ISIS.
And all Trump does is say it saves the US money!!!
All this fucker and the fucking GOP care about is fucking enriching themselves. They have no moral compass. The US will have no allies when they are done.
This is so dangerous.
And those poor Kurdish fighters left without defenses.
me_not_you
(75 posts)Robert Baer (Bob Baer) has spoken often about the Kurds and how important they where ('are', but let be honest past tense is now appropriate) to the U.S. as allies in the region. Going back to Gulf War I.But we have done this too many times to them and other players in the region/world.
You are spot on that going forward small bands of fighters will think twice before taking up arms for the Americans cause. And there is a real human cost to these actions. As a nation our Geo-Political credit is almost over drawn.
Also, notice how The DPRK played the U.S. at the recent nuclear talks? It's armature hour over a Dept. of State.
me_not_you
(75 posts)Freethinker65
(10,012 posts)me_not_you
(75 posts)Here's an interesting take on Mr. Trump's move in allowing Turkey to invade:
Link to tweet
You have to wonder what folks (the experts) at each agency (CIA, DIA, Dept. of State, etc) are thinking/feeling about this. Many times their voices get ignored in the final policy decision. Think there is plenty of evidence on this too.
Such as post Gulf War II. How many former folks have spoken out about how misguided the intel was etc?
me_not_you
(75 posts)me_not_you
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nwduke
(350 posts)To help his fellow dictator bud, Erdoğan! The Kurds were our allies against Isis! No country will ever trust us again!
me_not_you
(75 posts)Have heard of presidents issuing mass pardons before leaving office. But perhaps Mr.Trump is starting a new tradition of mass throwing people/groups under the bus before impeachment?
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)Arazi
(6,829 posts)Leaving the radicalized ISIS lunatics to regroup.
This is both a genocide and a terrorist insurgency disaster.
#PutinsPuppet
#Traitor
gademocrat7
(10,656 posts)The evil and stupidity of this grifter is doing irreparable harm to our allies, the Kurds. All he cares about is his property in Turkey. He must be impeached and removed from office.
spinbaby
(15,088 posts)Hell of a thing to wake up to.
gab13by13
(21,318 posts)Trump is following Putin's orders. Until people start talking about Syria and its role in oil and gas pipelines then everyone is missing the boat. Putin came to Assad's aid for a reason, oil and gas pipelines that cross Syria and end up in Ukraine on their way to Europe.
Follow the money people.
me_not_you
(75 posts)Have read a report that Russia got involved in Syria knowing it would cause exponential growth of migrants fleeing to Western Nations. Which in turn would create the "other" for Putin's puppets in said western nation to go after with propaganda. Like in, France (Marine Le Pen), England (Nigel Farage), Italy (Matteo Salvini), etc.
Some have even suggest Putin tipped off Hungary about this before hand and its why they beefed up their border security.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35706238
lark
(23,097 posts)Turkey will do its' best to wipe out the entire Syrian Kurdish peoples and drumpf moved out of the way for them to do this. The only question is what is he getting from Erdogan in return? They weren't involved with drumpfs illegal moves to use foreign nations to steal the presidency for him - however - they do have tapes of Khashoggi being killed and have been the ones pushing the fact that MBS had him killed. Since we also have information that drumpf and Kushner were co-conspirators, my bet is we hear nada from Turkey about this going forward and thats the quid pro quo in this instance. drumpf never ever does anything that doesn't benefit himself personally, never!
IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)I wouldn't blame them. They've been thrown under the bus so many times over the years it's ridiculous.
They should have gotten some sort of homeland out of the Iraq and Syrian conflicts. And the US could build a new airbase there when Turkey throws us out of Incirlik in retaliation.
