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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMSNBC just now: Turkey and Russia are now or will soon invade Northern Syria to slaughter the Kurds
Good God in Butter and the person who might have given some kind of go ahead on this was Donald Trump*?
This is madness and this could become a conflagration that could spread God only knows where.
* As he was doing Vlad's bidding? The eastern part of the Ukraine that Trump all but acquiesced to
Russia (oil, gas, & pipelines) and the story is that northern Syria is where Vlad wants pipelines.
kwolf68
(7,365 posts)really desires extinction of itself.
Botany
(70,585 posts)I don't like him but can we wake Henry Kissinger up or maybe get Colin Powell or
is Condi Rice around or Nikki Haley?
IndyOp
(15,535 posts)precipitously change his mind. Some of our troops may die because they did not have time to prepare, but thousands could be saved.
Eugene
(61,949 posts)Botany
(70,585 posts)I have to turn off the news and get off DU for now ... my heart is heavy.
IndyOp
(15,535 posts)roamer65
(36,747 posts)Iraqi Kurdistan is not just going to sit there and let this happen. They are going to take on the Turks in the east.
emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)The Kurds did the dirty and the Conman stabbed them in the back.
Phoenix61
(17,019 posts)Just shocked I say.
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Turkey and Russia going to attack them too?
I've always know how fucked up shithole is, but gawd damn, can't the Republicans advise/tell shithole to stop this.
The Kurds are our allies, damn it.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,964 posts)Putin can survive World War III, along with the ultra-rich and their henchmen.
The rest of us, the 99.99%, not so much.
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)Link to tweet
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish forces, together with the rebel Free Syrian Army, will cross the Syrian border shortly, President Tayyip Erdogans communications director said early on Wednesday, as a surprise withdrawal of U.S. troops made way for the Turkish incursion.
Turkey has been poised to advance into northeast Syria since the U.S. troops began vacating the area in an abrupt policy shift by U.S. President Donald Trump widely criticised in Washington as a betrayal of Americas allies, the Kurds.
More at link
SweetieD
(1,660 posts)they want.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)Celerity
(43,524 posts)ERBIL, Kurdistan Region In meetings with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday, Kurdistan Region officials urged Russia to step in and protect the Kurds of Syria following a US green light to a unilateral Turkish military operation.
Lavrov visited Iraq and the Kurdistan Region on Monday to discuss a broad range of topics, including energy ties. Though the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) has long been on bad terms with the Democratic Union Party (PYD), the Kurdish party ruling northeast Syria, Kurdistan Region officials took the opportunity to call on Russia to protect Kurds in Syria.
President Barzani expressed his worries regarding the future of Kurds in Syria to the Russian Foreign Minister and asked that Russia play its role in case of any event or change to prevent further suffering and pain of the Kurdish people in Syria, a statement from the office of KDP president and former President of the Kurdistan Region Masoud Barzani read.
Former Iraqi Foreign Minister and KDP Politburo member Hoshyar Zebari attended the meeting, after which he hailed Lavrovs visit to the Region as historical in comments to Rudaw. We expressed our worry frankly so that the conditions of the areas of Eastern Euphrates, as they call it, do not become destabilized due to any military operation," Zebari said.
"That is why his Excellency President [Masoud Barzani] asked Lavrov to use his influence to prevent any humanitarian tragedy or people fleeing from these areas, so that they don't affect the Kurdistan Region or its conditions. "The talks were good, and opinions were very similar, he added.
On Monday, the White House abruptly announced that it would withdraw from Syria, following a Sunday phone call between US President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The announcement was labelled as a betrayal by many Kurds, as a US force presence in the area was seen to act as a bastion against a possible Turkish operation in the area. Trump later defended his decision, telling Kurds to figure the situation out.
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Rudaw Media Network, also known as Rudaw, is a media group in Iraqi Kurdistan. It publishes in Kurdish, English, Arabic and Turkish.