[Texas Fossil]

And where does Turkey fit in?

Will this mean the US will side with Kurds against Turkey and Iran?

Where will Russia be?

Bad situation.

Can US and Russia step in and cooperate enough to stabilize this?

[arthurus]

Trust Donald Trump. He may not have the same vperceptions of who is worthy as we do but he will get the best arrangement that he can get for America.

[arthurus]

Trust Donald Trump. He may not have the same perceptions of who is worthy as we do but he will get the best arrangement that he can get for America.

[huldah1776]

Russia, Iran, Syria, Turkey, Iraq. Tillerson. I’m going to watch a couple of his videos to read the body language and see what he and how he reports about the ME.

newsnow.co.uk has up to the minute headlines so just saw this...could be anywhere but

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-14/first-footage-emerges-armed-clashes-between-kurdish-and-pro-baghdad-forces-near-kirk

[arthurus]

I doubt the US will "side" with the Kurds. The US may make it known to the Turks that we will not let them invade Kurdistan. If we set any rules it will be that Turkiye and Iraq leave the Kurds alone within some set of agreed upon(everybody else "agrees" to our decision) borders and We will not let Kurdistan impinge on the Turkish border. The Kurdistan dream includes a sizable chunk of Turkiye and a piece of Syria and a bite of Iran. We will discourage anything beyond what they manage to secure and hold in Iraq. Kirkuk is a problem. It is historically Kurdish but is also the center of Iraqi oil.

We do not need for the Syrian Kurds to be part of Kurdistan, or the Turkish Kurds either. Their organization is still Communist. We need for the Syrian Kurds to be part of Syria ruled by guess who? ASSAD. Anyone else in charge of Syria unless it is a Russian colony henceforth will be either Sunni or Shia hard core and bring immediate war of extermination against the several sizable minorities there. Assad is Alawite and thereby a heretic to both Sunni and Shia. He stays in power by running his government with minorities staffing and minorities army. He is a brutal dictator. He is allied with Iran. we cannot get any better. If we kill him his successor will be either a Shiite who will make Syria effectively a province of Iran or he will be a Sunni and chase out or kill the Christians, Jews, Druzes, Sufis, Shiites, Yazids, etc.