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Hiro S Nobumasa
Time for America to support a Kurdish Republic and give it 120% military and economic plus humanitarian support!
That's what true allies are for!
nandakandamanda
Not again? This replacement of the border Kurds with non-Kurdish Syrian FSA troops could well turn out to be ethnic cleansing, pure and simple, unless Erdogan is VERY careful.
Goodlucktoyou
Russia reunites Crimea, world crime. Turkey starts genocide and invades Syria with plans to annex territory = ok.
Asakaze
Never gonna happen. America quietly allowed the Iraqi government to crush Iraqi Kurdistan, now it'll do the same to the Syrian Kurds. The right to use the air force base at Incirlic and unity of NATO are much more important then the usual propaganda crap about freedom and democracy we always hear from Washington.
Scrote
The Turks do like a bit of genocide: first the Armenians and now the Kurds. Let's see how many people have to die before our "leaders" do anything more than call for "restraint".
Matt Hartwell
The U.S owes the Kurds a debt. They have been sold out time and time again. But the U.S will do nothing. Its not just about NATO, its about the worry that Turkey will cuddle up to Russia even more. Its a pity the E.U don't have a hand in this fight. They could threaten Turkish exports.
We need to find a strategy for handling the fall out of kicking Turkey out of NATO. Its only a matter of time.
viking68
The U.S. should protect the Kurds from Turkey. Maybe the U.S. should send them AA missiles. That will slow down the planned genocide and make Turkey think twice about bombing them.
nandakandamanda
Kkkkk, very true! During the whole months-long, deadly fight for Kobane, the Turks stayed a few hundred yards north of the border with a line of tanks, just watching and waiting.
Hiro S Nobumasa
Turkiye ordered its military to cross the Syrian border and kill Kurdish women and children yet the UN so-called Special Rapporteurs like Dr. Agnes Callamard and the EU Parliament suddenly becomes deaf, mute and blind.
Agnes and her hordes only knows to abuse poor Asian nations like the PH, Burma and Cambodia etc.
nandakandamanda
Er, Hiro Nobumasa, I think he ordered his military to scrupulously avoid civilian casualties.
The problem is that Afrin for example is and always has been a Kurdish majority area. With the armed foces of the YPG in there now, how do Turkish troops and Syrian Arab FSA pushing through, tell the difference between a Syrian Kurd and a Syrian Kurd?
Asakaze
I'm not so sure about that. Kurds claim the Turkish military uses napalm against them:
https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/turkey/2018/turkey-180128-voa01.htm?_m=3n%2e002a%2e2213%2eon0ao001ut%2e21cp
American silence is glaring. Hard lesson for the Kurds - never again ally yourselves with the US, you'll be betrayed.
nandakandamanda
Asakaze. Do you believe in the VOA? I did not know they were still going!
i guess if Turkey’s PKK call themselves the Workers’ Party, and the Syrian YPG are also quite communist in their philosophy, then it would be natural for them to have a common internal understanding, which must only grow stronger while Turkey treats them as the same entity.
Hiro S Nobumasa
nandakandamanda:
Don't you find Erdogan's pledge to 'clean' the entire Syrian border chillingly genocidal?
Anyways da-kine bullets and bombs and napalm aren't yet equipped with AI to distinguish and evade women and them innocent children!
The previous Bushy Presidency will forever be imprinted in history as the breaker of nations forever after what both have done to Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and Syria .
It would be nice if the Trumpy administration would be known as the builder of new nations instead and America will again be respected all over the world after supporting the births of the Kurdish Republic, Taiwan Naruwan Republic and the Ryukuan Republic.
The so-called UN Special Rapporteurs like Dr. Agnes Callamard on the other hand should investigate extrajudicial killings by Erdogan's henchmen in the Syrian border and the Kurdish Republic instead of being the flamboyant stooge of wealthy oligarch in Burma and the PH.
Asakaze
@nandakandamanda
Wow, what a question to ask! Every pro-Western believer in the Liberal Democratic World Order must believe in this source of crystal truth! lol
Seriously, I think there is a possibility that Erdogan used napalm. But also I think there is a possibility that Kurds do the same that terrorebels did last spring during the battle for Aleppo, when they tried to get their Western friends to attack Assad, blaming him for the chemical attack at Khan Sheihun.