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2022-11-22 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by badanov 2022-11-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top

#1 That's gonna leave a mark.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-11-22 03:26|| 2022-11-22 03:26|| Front Page Top

#2 The USA supporting terrorists? This is unpossible!

Posted by Punky Elmigum9411 2022-11-22 04:28|| 2022-11-22 04:28|| Front Page Top

#3 This is how I understand the situation: the PKK has been part of the Syrian Kurd (plus some Arab tribals) team that did the majority of the work of destroying ISIS, which is what we’ve been supporting since 2015 or so. They have been wrestling with Turkey for decades over the fact that Turkey has been trying to erase its Kurds — who make up about a quarter of Turkey’s population and whom the Turks call “Mountain Turks” to erase even their identity, forbidding their language, culture, and regularly attempting to wipe out their population. Honours are about even on both sides for vicious assaults, though the majority of the dying has been done by Kurdish civilians. And Turkey has taken advantage of the Syrian civil war and the accumulation of Syrian refugees from the ISIS conquest to take Syrian territory, settling what until now were Kurdish cities and towns with those dependent and grateful Syrian Sunnis whom Turkey did not send on to invade Europe.

This is all separate from the stupid American support started by President Obama for actual Muslim Brotherhooder groups, which has not gone well at all. But President Obama was ever looking for “moderate” jihadis to surrender to, of which the Mad Mullahs of Iran were only the largest and most successful.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-11-22 09:40|| 2022-11-22 09:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Something else that has played out over the last 6 years: Rojava has been a cause celebre of Antifa. It makes even more sense that US Mil is there.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2022-11-22 14:59|| 2022-11-22 14:59|| Front Page Top

/\ Stop it, all of you. Our national interests are at stake.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-11-22 15:03|| 2022-11-22 15:03|| Front Page Top

#6 So … a NATO country attacks a US base … no Article 5? Snark aside, if there are no repercussions it will happen again when convenient

Posted by Slenter Panda4300 2022-11-22 21:03|| 2022-11-22 21:03|| Front Page Top

#7 I’m pretty sure this is not the first time.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-11-22 21:16|| 2022-11-22 21:16|| Front Page Top

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