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2019-10-08 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

What would an all-out war between Turkey and the SDF entail?

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Posted by trailing wife 2019-10-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top
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#1 The more I read and listen, it appears that nearly all of the MSM is against Trump's annoucement of a pull-back of 50-100 advisors. The fact there is universal MSM condemnation of his decision makes a person suspicious. It seems like quite a few people would like to keep the U.S. mired in some M.E. conflict. Turkey has had a 35 year history of sparring with the far left Kurdistan Worker's Party, a part of the S.D.F.

Posted by JohnQC 2019-10-08 00:48|| 2019-10-08 00:48|| Front Page Top

#2 The Hill - Susan Rice calls Trump decision to pull troops from Syria 'batshit crazy'

Posted by Besoeker 2019-10-08 00:53|| 2019-10-08 00:53|| Front Page Top

#3 What would an all-out war between Turkey and the SDF entail?

Lots of SDF personnel who, when questioned by western journalists, reply "Ya ne govoryu po-angliski"?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-10-08 03:31|| 2019-10-08 03:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Up = down
Night = day
Slavery = freedom
America's interests = Erdogan's interests

VOTE SWAMPY 2020

Posted by Lex 2019-10-08 08:00|| 2019-10-08 08:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Interesting, just where does Russia stand on all that? Heh. Continue making inroads with Turkey or back Assad as they have for years now? Decisions, decisions, decisions. If he wasn't such an 'idiot' I'd suspect someone is playing a deep game.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-10-08 08:26|| 2019-10-08 08:26|| Front Page Top

#6 ^We are the third Rome, heirs of Constantinople.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-10-08 08:46|| 2019-10-08 08:46|| Front Page Top

#7 I would think that if Turkey invades Kurdish Syria they might end up with uprising in Kurdish Turkey with safe zones in Kurish Iraq.

From what I understand Demographically the Kurds will eventually replace the Turks as the majority in Anatolia. i'm not sure when but I suspect the Turks do and are hoping to solve the problem now before they are on the other side of the genocide line.

Posted by ruprecht 2019-10-08 10:08|| 2019-10-08 10:08|| Front Page Top

#8 ruprect,

ethnic Kurds already outnumber ethnic Turks in almost all the southeast part of the country

next Presidential election is scheduled for 2023

interestingly, Erdogan's party, the AKP, aka Adalet ve Kalkınma, aka Justice and Development, has a registered membership system; in the past year they lost about 7% of their members

Posted by lord garth 2019-10-08 12:11|| 2019-10-08 12:11|| Front Page Top

#9 I suspect Turkey will apply its Armenian 'solution' to its Kurdish 'problem.'

Posted by Glenmore 2019-10-08 12:16|| 2019-10-08 12:16|| Front Page Top

#10 There is a long, long history dating back for centuries of animosity and war between Russia and Turkey. They don't like each other.

It sounds like a lovely little war to stay the hell out of. We need to secure our own border before we worry about Kurds, Turks and Syrians.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-10-08 13:54|| 2019-10-08 13:54|| Front Page Top

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