Posted on 12/19/2024 10:02:35 AM PST by EnderWiggin1970
Call it the dark side of liberation. America’s most loyal allies in Syria, the Kurds, are now facing the wrath of Turkish proxies that helped topple Bashar al-Assad’s tyranny earlier this month. As of now neither President Joe Biden nor president-elect Donald Trump have offered any guarantees for the survival of the 200,000 Kurds who are now at risk of being cleansed from the northeastern city of Kobani and surrounding areas.
“We feel betrayed,” Ilham Ahmed, a Kurd who serves as the de facto foreign minister for the North and East Syrian administration, told The Free Press in an interview arranged through The Center for Peace Communications on Monday. “We feel defeated and betrayed, in our hearts.”
Ahmed expects an invasion of Kobani any day now by the Syrian National Army, a collection of Islamist militias armed, paid for, and sponsored by Turkey’s powerful intelligence service. When I caught up with her, she had just concluded a round of negotiations with Turkish officials to forestall this invasion—and she was despondent. “All diplomatic talks with Turkey have failed. They have no conditions, they just want to invade,” she said.
A letter sent to Trump—and obtained by The Free Press—on behalf of the Kurds in the North and East Syrian province, pleaded with the president-elect: “From across the border, we can already see Turkish forces amassing, and our civilians live under the constant fear of imminent death and destruction.” It went on to say, “Your decisive leadership can stop this invasion and preserve the dignity and safety of those who have stood as steadfast allies.”
The could have done much to help the Kurds prepare as well, if the Deep State had wanted to.
We wouldn’t have to do jack, if the EUnuchs demonstrated the same kind of commitment to a real persecuted stateless nation (the Kurds), as they do to a fake one (the Philistinians).
We are the worst allies in history. We almost always stab our friends in the back.
Old Kurdish saying: “The Kurds have no friends but the mountains.”
Syria once had 2 million Christians, as well as a small but active Jewish community. At least they were protected by the Assads.
There are probably less than 250K Christians remaining.
They won’t last long under Turkey and the CIA’s Islamist friends.
Although Bush-Obama are not solely responsible for their destruction/massacre, no one is even talking about their destruction.
The article’s title is confused (if not wrong), and not what the article text says. The actual article says the US was aware that the Turkish supported jihadists, HTS (ex-Al Queda) was planning to attack Assad, and warned RCA, also knowns as Syrian Free Army (SFA), the US backed group in the north east. RCA/SFA did not participate in the overthrow of Assad.
SFA has some Kurds, but there is another Kurdish army, the SDF which is more like a radical communist terrorist group associated with the PKK which is fighting for Kurds inside Turkey.
It is a mess.
Too bad about the Kurds.
Nothing to do with us, though. For us to “abandon” the Kurds we would have to owe them a duty of protection or care, and we just don’t. Sucks to be a hill tribe member in Burma, too, and God knows what else.
Our wars for the foreseeable future are here.
Israel claimed they were going to help the Kurds..
Abandon the Kurds? Turkey is COUNTING ON IT.
The Kurds, etc., are not our problem.
One thing I can guaranty is that many of the very same people saying we have no business in Syria will decry our “abandonment” of the Kurds in Syria.
The Kurds committed some of the worst atrocities on the Armenia Christians. I wouldn’t count on them to protect Christians. They have been prosecuting the Assyrian Christians also.
“The Kurdish state envisioned in the Sèvres Treaty would, crucially, have been under British control. While this appealed to some Kurdish nationalists, others found this form of British-dominated “independence” problematic. So they joined up to fight with the Turkish national movement. Particularly among religious Kurds, continued Turkish or Ottoman rule seemed preferable to Christian colonization. Other Kurds, for more practical reasons, worried that once in charge the British would inevitably support recently dispossessed Armenians seeking to return to the region. Some subsequently regretted their decision when it became clear the state they had fought to create would be significantly more Turkish — and less religious — than anticipated.”
Of course! Abandoning allies is a hallmark of US foreign policy. Vietnam and & Afghan yesterday, Kurds today, Ukraine tomorrow.
Were any of them worth fighting for?
Bkmk
Were any of them worth fighting for?
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Nah - freedom is never worth fighting for. Costs to much, not my problem, someone else’s war, etc. Better to see the world’s population in slavery to some dictator - that way we can deal with him directly instead of a messy democratic or parliamentary republic.
Then when its our turn, we will not need to worry about some other foreign county coming to our aid, and we will knuckle under and become slaves like everyone else.
Amir Tasrfati (Dec 22, 2024)
behold israel channel
The Syrian Center for Human Rights reports a convoy of US military reinforcements arriving in the area of the Kurdish city of Kobani in northern Syria, near the border with Turkey. In addition, reinforcements were reported to have arrived via US cargo planes to the Harb al-Jir base in eastern Syria - amid the escalation of fighting between pro-Turkish forces and the Kurdish SDF forces.
Update about Syria via Amr Tasrfati:
Turkish citizen Ömer Muhammed Çiftçi, known as “Muhtar Turki,” has been appointed Brigadier General in the new Syrian Army.
He has fought against the Assad regime since the war began.
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Can you imagine a non American citizen serving as a General in the US military?
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