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2022-11-22 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] Regarding the Turkish air strike on the American PKK training and education center in Rojava.

The very purpose was obvious, since it was at this base that the Americans trained the terrorist who staged a terrorist attack in the center of Istanbul, killing 6 and injuring several dozen civilians. Erdogan's revenge was inevitable.

It is believed that the Turks informed the United States through closed channels that such a strike would be delivered in any case, and American personnel were evacuated from there before the strike.

According to the same scheme, Iran once bombed the American Ain Assad base in Iraq, informing the United States a few hours before the strike (via Qatar and Iraq) that missile attacks would be launched on the base, which gave the United States time to transfer personnel to underground shelters. However, at that time, even according to official data, the United States had 114 wounded and shell-shocked (according to unofficial data, there were also dead).

But the main thing here is the very situation when American facilities can be bombed. First Iran, now Turkey. The world has changed...

Russia publicly disapproves of Turkish actions, but if you look at the situation in progression, then the public rhetoric and actions of the parties are not much different from standard agreements like Afrinsky. Erdogan publicly denies this, but he has publicly denied it in the past as well.

There is an important point in all these strikes - Russia and Iran are making efforts to correct Erdogan's line towards Assad. And she has already changed. Erdogan said that after the elections in Turkey, there could be progress in relations with Syria. And the other day he announced the beginning of relations from scratch with Egypt.

Accordingly, if the process of normalization in relations between Syria and Turkey moves forward in the medium term, the Kurds will become superfluous in these scenarios and few will be worried about the next strikes against them.

As it is not difficult to see, Turkey's attacks on the Kurds in Syria and Iraq and Iran's attacks on the Kurds in Iraq do not meet any serious opposition.

Posted by badanov 2022-11-22 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11142 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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