Updates from Rojava
Amid the US pullout of northern Syria, the Turks, as promised, have vowed to eliminate the Kurdish region of Rojava through force. Without much in the way of air defenses, they’ve got a rough road ahead.
#BREAKING
Kurdish civilians fleeing the Turkish regime bombardmentas US effectively opened the NE Syria airspace for Turkey to killing the kurds
Heavy bombardment continues #SDF #YPG #QSD #BreakingNews #SYRIA #SYRIAN #ROJAVA #NewsAlert #KurdishBetrayal@Reuters pic.twitter.com/LmybtGqzfb— Botin Kurdistani (@kurdistannews24) October 9, 2019
Turkey, nominally a NATO ally, considers the YPG a terrorist organization and although has nominally given lip service to combating ISIS, its widely acknowledged that Turkey has given support to them in the past. As Foreign Policy noted:
Beginning in late 2013 and early 2014, Turkish border cities became the chief logistical hubs for foreign fighters seeking to enter Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic State and other rebel groups. By all accounts, foreign fighters from around the globe first traveled to Turkey and then on to Iraq and Syria, forming the backbone and striking power of the Islamic State. In 2013 alone, some 30,000 militants traversed Turkish soil, establishing the so-called jihadi highway, as the country became a conduit for fighters seeking to join the Islamic State. By August 2015, Turkey did eventually tighten up its borders and agree to engage in strike missions as part of Operation Inherent Resolve, but by then, the lion’s share of foreign fighters had already arrived in Iraq and Syria.
Given Turkey’s history of acting with no regard for anyone but themselves, no one should be surprised by their move to capitalize on the vacuum left in the US absence.
Erdogan is seeking to build his own stake in the Middle East, building a new Ottoman Empire in the process. And unabated his government doesn’t care who they kill to get it, as history has shown with both the Kurds and the Armenians.
From the SDF:
Statement by the General Command of Syrian Democratic Forces. pic.twitter.com/nMCjVxOmdJ
— Rojava Defense Units (@DefenseUnits) October 8, 2019
There’s a hard fight ahead and one I think we’ll be seeing the consequences of soon enough.
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I can’t figure out this action by POTUS but on the other hand I really don’t care because I’ve yet to see any real friends that won’t turn their back and become enemies in a few years over there.
We do need to reduce our footprint greatly and reset the maintenance, training and logistics in preparation for what’s coming.
No idea why POTUS is doing this but we have total air dominance in Aghanistan and aren’t winning. The Kurds helped kill the Armenians, btw. We have no friends over there besides the Christians.
Some of them did. Some of them didn’t.
Those that didn’t are the reason I’m alive.