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
How have we not abandoned the Kurds? We’re withdrawing all support on the ground and in the air, leaving them to Erdogan and his army. Yes Turkey has a large Kurdish population and throughout it’s modern history Turkey has gone out of its way to suppress them to the point that they don’t even allow them to be referred to as Kurds, they’re “easterners”. Kurdish speech, dress, and culture has been under attack by the government for over 100 years. The result has been a powder keg that the government has to continue sitting on. Kurds over the border make that job just that much harder, so of course Erdogan want’s to remove them as a fighting force. And now he has Trump’s OK to do it.