Trump was supposed to impose sanctions on Turkey over that minister about a year ago. Whatever happened to that? And when Congress mandated sanctions on Turkey over that purchase of Russian military equipment Trump dragged his feet over imposing them. It's been a mixed message to Erdogan so far so why should he be afraid now? He no doubt figures that he can go in, wipe out the Kurds, and the blowback will be short term and manageable.
This popped about 30 minutes ago on Trump’s Twitter feed...
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We may be in the process of leaving Syria, but in no way have we Abandoned the Kurds, who are special people and wonderful fighters. Likewise our relationship with Turkey, a NATO and Trading partner, has been very good. Turkey already has a large Kurdish population and fully....
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.....good health, at my request, Pastor Brunson, who had many years of a long prison term remaining. Also remember, and importantly, that Turkey is an important member in good standing of NATO. He is coming to the U.S. as my guest on November 13th. #ENDENDLESSWARS
You miss the real might of the US. Our real might isn’t military per se. It is that we can afford the mightiest military. Trump is merely using our real might and bypassing the military option. It is higher level thinking.
Impose sanctions? I have one word for that: INSTEX. If you know what that is, you know bloody well what I’m getting at.