What happens to NATO member and somewhat ally Turkey? Surely they're not going to want to give up the portion of Kurdistan that's in Turkey. Add to that Turkey has not been stellar at standing up to ISIS. What happens if the Kurds bring their fight for independence into Turkey? Is NATO supposed to defend Turkey? And what happens with a truncated Turkey? Does it look at the map and see that Russia might be a better ally?
I can't believe the mess the world is...in the Middle East, in Eastern Europe, in Africa, in Afghanistan-Pakistan-India. And Yemen? It controls access to the Red Sea and puts terrorists run amuck along a very long border with Saudi Arabia. Mygosh, what if it all explodes at once?
I fully expect to see the Kurds not only eventually demand their fair slice of Turkey but a narrow path to the sea splitting the border with Turkey and what’s left of Syria. Dis-regarding the Kurds was a major mistake left over from 1917. And BTW-—they can be a heckuva ally for US-—more dependable than Erdogan/Turkey ever would be.
-——It’s clear that there has to be an independent Kurdistan. -——
I have thought for sometime that everybody that matters not only believes that to be true but are in fact acting to make it so. The “coalition”air engagements are pretty much to aid the Kurds
I can’t discern what is going on with the Kurds and Turkey. I have a gut feeling that the Kurds are not unified. The former Iraqi and Syrian Kurds may not be in agreement with the radical Turkish Kurds and unwelcome simply because they would be a problem rather than a solution
I’m a great fan of Robert Heinlein, a future historian. It is truly great to be an observer and project events forward. Not one month or one year but perhaps 10 or 25 years.
I recently watched Lawrence of Arabia again with an eye on now. With Arab troops, he captured large areas including Damascus. What we see now is the essence of what was happening in Damascus in 1918 all over again. The tribal feuds and distrust would not permit consensus. There is now a fundamentalist Islamic component opposing the progress achieved by the tribes of the GCC that have put aside many of the old fueds.
The dissolution of the Ottoman empire is in process of resolution.....again