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Don't mention the K word : Comments

By Sasha Uzunov, published 17/10/2019

Playing the Kurdish card by the US has been strategically useful in taking down the Saddam Hussein regime in 2003 and in combating ISIS in Syria.

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Individual,

Then don't go in, if you can't see it through.

I've been trying to find any evidence of Kurdish aggression against other countries or regions in the past. Yes, Saladin (Salah-ud-Din) was a Kurd, born in Tikrit, present-day central Iraq (where Saddam was born too). He fought against the Crusaders.

And that seems to be about it.

For a slime like Trump, they were ideal for betraying, without any payback for him or the US. Anyway, they were just sluts in his view, fighting only in return for payment. For Trump, the world is full of sluts - pay them and they'll do whatever you want. Like his grandfather: the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

Who's next ?

Joe
Posted by Loudmouth, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 7:54:24 AM
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Loudmouth,
Irrelevant reply to my query, why doesn't the UN go & help the Kurds ? Isn't that what they get Billions for ?

Let the US recover from all that War spending for others !
Posted by individual, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 6:20:04 PM
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"Playing the Kurdish card by the US has been strategically useful in taking down the Saddam Hussein regime in 2003 and in combating ISIS in Syria."

American General Explains Rebranding the YPG Away From the PKK
http://youtu.be/kVZCIel_2Xw

You all do realise there's better places to get your news other than the corporate media right?

Try This:

US Stays In Syria, Kurds Call On Israel To Attack Turkey & US Says Israel Has 'Right' To Attack Iran
http://youtu.be/3abkXcsXkwY

Syrian Kurdish military official calls on Israel to take action against Turkey
http://www.timesofisrael.com/syrian-kurdish-military-official-calls-on-israel-to-take-action-against-turkey/
An official in the Syrian Democratic Forces called on Israel on Monday to take action against Turkey’s military incursion into northern Syria.

Turkey Threatens Damascus Government With Declaration Of Full-Scale War
http://southfront.org/turkey-threatens-damascus-government-with-declaration-of-full-scale-war/
“If the Syrian regime [the Assad government] wants to enter Manbij, Ayn al-Arab and Qamishli to provide protection for the Kurdish People’s Protection Units [YPG], that will be viewed by Turkey as the declaration of war and it [Damascus] will face a relevant response,” the Turkish presidential adviser said.

Pompeo Tells Israel It Has "Fundamental Right" To Attack Iranian Targets In The Region
http://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pompeo-tells-israel-it-has-fundamental-right-attack-iranian-targets-self-defense
The interview followed a two hour meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Mossad chief Yossi Cohen on Friday morning. Netanyahu has long urged Washington to stay the course in Syria, rather than allow Assad and the Syrian Army to retake the country.

And here's the bloke that tried to expose US government wrongdoing that has never been denied or prosecuted.
It looks like they've done a good number on him.

‘I can’t think properly’: Assange disoriented as court rejects delay for extradition proceedings
http://www.rt.com/uk/471425-assange-court-hearing-us-extradition/
Today in court, Julian Assange struggled to say his own name and date of birth as he appeared in the dock. He claimed to have not understood what happened in the case management hearing, and was holding back tears as he said: "I can't think properly".
Posted by Armchair Critic, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 7:57:37 PM
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Individual,

Why isn't the UN involved in support of the abandoned Kurds ? Well, which countries ? The Kurds are not Arabs or Turks or Persians, they're geographically one of those in-between groups whose territories those other powers have always coveted. The Kurds are not European or Chinese or Indian or African; they are usually not Christian or Jewish, although there are Christian and Jewish minorities within the Kurdish population.

So who will speak up for them ? The US has betrayed them, and its allies will effectively follow suit.

So they are at the mercy of all of their hostile neighbours. Intriguingly, they don't seem to have ever launched wars of aggression against those neighbours, although their neighbours have done just that to them, over thousands of years.

In fact, just to inform that half-wit Trump, in relation to the war between the Turks and the Kurds: it has been the Turks who have aggressed countless times against its neighbours - in the last couple of hundred years, against Greece, Bulgaria, Rumania, Russia, Serbia, not to mention its imperialist activities across much of the Arab world. There are hundreds of years of wars between Turkey (i.e. the Ottomans) and Persia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman%E2%80%93Persian_Wars

But the Kurds ? Pretty much nothing. Yes, they fought on the British side in the Anglo-Iraqi war in 1941, before the Yanks got involved in WW II. But there seems to be no evidence of Kurdish aggression against any of their neighbours. None.

The Kurds have been the most socially-advanced society in the Middle East, especially in terms of protection for minorities like the Yazidis (remember the Yazidis ?) and women's rights.

So now they have been abandoned to the Turks, who will ethnically cleanse those Kurdish lands and settle Arabs. Imagine, hypothetically, if Indonesia invaded northern Australia, and expelled the entire local population in order to settle a million Indonesians. Would we sit back and let that happen ? And could we rely on the US under that mongrel Trump for any help at all ?

Joe
Posted by Loudmouth, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 9:51:48 AM
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Why isn't the UN involved in support of the abandoned Kurds ?
Loudmouth,
Yes, why doesn't the UN do its job ? Isn't it the UN's job to help people in need or are they just there to sit on their hands & wait for America to foot the bill again ? What other countries do you think should help ?
Posted by individual, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 9:07:18 PM
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