Spend all this money on our military just to sit on our ass while our allies bleed. Fuck. This is the worst thing trump has done and that's a steep hill to climb.
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Turkish strikes on Kurdish areas in Syria have already begun.
- Thread starter Saya
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it seems that republicans are blaming just turkey for it, but not trump...
You have to read between the lines in that tweet. He didn't say that he'd hurt Turkey's economy if it attacked the Kurds. He said he'd attack their economy if Turkey did "anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider off limits". He won't balk at them bombing the fuck out of the Kurds and engineering a humanitarian crisis. All part of the plan.
The Republicans in Congress won't do shit without Trump's direct approval and Trump is being paid to not care about this by Turkey so his approval is never gonna come.
They will if they realize that people dont want this to happen.
Congress is out of town until next week. Also it's too late at this point.
Not even Turkey recognizes PKK as a terrorist organisation. Army recognizes them as a legit political party and an illegal rebel group. That's why they negotiate peace and ceasefire with them all the time. You can't negotiate with terrorists, Turkish Constitution bans that shit.
Not to mention they recognize Ocalan as de facto party leader and make official visits to his prison cell to make those negotiations.
When was the last time Republicans banded together for the greater good because the American People wanted them to?
When has that EVER happened? Let alone under the Trump Administration.
God I fucking hate the US state so fucking much. This is not the first time they've betrayed the Kurds and it will not be the last.
The only mass democratic project in the middle east is about to be barbarically wiped out because a mentally deficient orange charlatan with a god complex wills it so. This is an atrocity.
Then the next president will take office, wait on it long enough for more corpses to pile so that the disaster capitalists can swoop in when the situation is at its worst. AmeriKKKan defense contractors need those bonuses I suppose
Nope, just a mildly worded 'I'd really rather you didn't' sealed in kisses and delivered by a congregation of the senate's finest republican bootlickers and lapdogs, and repackaged by Fox to make it look like they have a spine.
The only mass democratic project in the middle east is about to be barbarically wiped out because a mentally deficient orange charlatan with a god complex wills it so. This is an atrocity.
Then the next president will take office, wait on it long enough for more corpses to pile so that the disaster capitalists can swoop in when the situation is at its worst. AmeriKKKan defense contractors need those bonuses I suppose
Nope, just a mildly worded 'I'd really rather you didn't' sealed in kisses and delivered by a congregation of the senate's finest republican bootlickers and lapdogs, and repackaged by Fox to make it look like they have a spine.
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Oh so he waited until congress couldnt do anything about it?!
FUCK THAT FUCKING FUCK CUNT MOTHER FUCKER. Fucking people are dying...fuck i fucking hate him. i hate anyone who supports him and i fucking hate anyone who voted for him. FUCK
Pretty much. His next move is to withdraw us from the open skies treaty to please Papa Putin
Like others have said, this is something Erdogan has been itching for for a while. That they were ready at a moments notice tells you that the only thing preventing them from doing it until now was the United States' stance on the matter.
Erdogan speaks with Trump on the phone and then boom, they attack immedietly. Fucking disgusting.
Erdogan speaks with Trump on the phone and then boom, they attack immedietly. Fucking disgusting.
Nah that was him considering doing it. Now he's actually going to do it.
Wouldn't the more likely outcome for such countries be to align themselves with other superpowers to guarantee security in exchange for...well, whatever China/Russia ask for?
Don't see how.
He is the Commander in Chief.
If the Senate doesn't want to move beyond non-binding resolutions and stern tweets... What he says goes.
It will be incredible if this doesn't go into a domino of conflicts in the long term now that US has lost any kind of respect they had left.
Taiwan is far too much for China to chew on without rocking the world's economy and Russia is in no shape to pull another stunt, but frankly, a lot of countries in rough neighbourhoods should be really concerned.
This will trascend Trump. America is no longer a rock.
Pretty sure we (UK) had hundreds of special forces in the area fighting alongside the Kurds. Makes you wonder if the US coordinated fully with UK authorities to get them out of harm's way beforehand. I mean, on the grand scale of things they make up a small number of people, but dropping bombs on UK soldiers could escalate things somewhat.
Yeah, I wasn't talking specifically about Taiwan and Baltic's but there are a lot of regions around the world where there is that one tougher crazier neighbour ready to go to war like Turkey here.
Trump's withdrawal orders are ridiculously shortsighted, but why aren't Europeans rushing to fill the gap instead of complaining about the US' withdrawal?
Congress can, but they won't. The House might eventually actually impeach Trump, but the Senate is Republican controlled and will likely not impeach him. Yes, even after this shitty move by Trump.
As long as the Republicans hold power our government is broken, and at the mercy of the treasonous criminal idiot Trump.
Short of Congress actually doing their job, our only other course of action is to revolt and overturn our government. Which won't happen because too much of America is apathetic to things outside our borders.
In short, no, we really can't do anything of any consequence. :(
I see there is a lengthy wiki article about this conflict (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdish–Turkish_conflict_(1978–present)) as well as a more recent article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdish–Turkish_conflict_(2015–present)), but does anyone have a link to an abridged story about this situation? I'm in the dark about it and would love to read something concise from the Times or something that spells out what is happening and why Erdogan is doing all this.
And do what, go to war against Turkey now when US have them the green light?
No, to fulfill the same role as the US, that is to act as buffer between Turkey and Syria, and to safeguard ISIS prisons.
Trump had a phone call with Erdogan. Erdogan told him to stand aside. Then the announcement came. This all happened in a very short time. If there are indeed UK forces there, then they'd better have moved out very quickly.
Pretty sure that kind of statement is okay here. You just can't say that you're going to do it yourself; that's a big no-no, and you'd risk a knock on the door from the Secret Service. They don't take that kind of thing lightly.
Missing quite a bit there. British and French special forces were already there assisting the Kurdish. Trump sold them out too, even if they can retreat.
America pulling out was giving Turkey the green light to bomb the Kurdish. The horse has bolted out. No country will come to their support now because it's a non starter.
There's no buffer anymore. Turkey is already moving in and bombing the front lines. The only thing preventing this was American presence. Once done away, Turkey was free to move in.
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