Not surprised, the Americans let Saddam Hussein butcher over 200,000 Iraqis in 1991 to stop the Shia uprising, before they stepped in with a no fly zone, only after they guaranteed the Shia revolution was killed. The SDF should've learned from history, the US is not a trustworthy ally, Trump even reneged on the Iran nuclear deal, it was clear as day he was going to ditch them.
Hopefully they can mount an effective resistance against that Sultan wannabee asshole Erdogan, but I think Erdogan's most potent weapon are the Arab tribes in Raqqa and Deir ez Zor turning against the SDF, using anti Kurdish sentiment of some Arab tribes.
Is he implying that the Kurds are somehow more civilized and not savages like the Turkomen, Yazidis and Arabs? Is this somehow supposed to elicit foreign help? Boils my blood how the West keeps trying to portray the Kurdish regions as something of a Western democratic haven under assault, when they're not. Kuridstan Iraq, is a region being ruled by a mafia like government headed by the Barazanis who are in conflict against another Mafia family who is supported by Baghdad, the Talabanis, any sense of democracy in Kurdistan Iraq is bullshit, it's also a region with one of the highest rates of honor killings, whose forces, the Peshmerga, participating in Ethnic displacement of Yazidis and Shia Turkomen and Arabs.
Hopefully they can mount an effective resistance against that Sultan wannabee asshole Erdogan, but I think Erdogan's most potent weapon are the Arab tribes in Raqqa and Deir ez Zor turning against the SDF, using anti Kurdish sentiment of some Arab tribes.
Is he implying that the Kurds are somehow more civilized and not savages like the Turkomen, Yazidis and Arabs? Is this somehow supposed to elicit foreign help? Boils my blood how the West keeps trying to portray the Kurdish regions as something of a Western democratic haven under assault, when they're not. Kuridstan Iraq, is a region being ruled by a mafia like government headed by the Barazanis who are in conflict against another Mafia family who is supported by Baghdad, the Talabanis, any sense of democracy in Kurdistan Iraq is bullshit, it's also a region with one of the highest rates of honor killings, whose forces, the Peshmerga, participating in Ethnic displacement of Yazidis and Shia Turkomen and Arabs.