[Rashputin]

"But most importantly, we have betrayed the Kurds."

OMG, we can't betray the Kurds even though half of them are outright Communists, a quarter of them are loyal to Iran, and the remaining quarter are in it for the $200 and three cartons of cigarettes they're paid every month.

When the Turks start gassing them bomb the Turks. Otherwise let the Turks, Iranians, Syrians, Iraqis, and Kurds finish this fight they've been having off and on, with the parties shifting who they're allied with from time to time, for at least the past thousand or so years.

[Sarcasm Factory]

Ayuh, that's what I was thinking. So-called Kurdistan still exists in Iraq. Let that be the message sent and not the coda of withdrawing vulnerable, highly trained Americans from a danger zone in which they no longer need be present.

OMG, we can't betray the Kurds even though half of them are outright Communists, a quarter of them are loyal to Iran, and the remaining quarter are in it for the $200 and three cartons of cigarettes they're paid every month.

When the Turks start gassing them bomb the Turks. Otherwise let the Turks, Iranians, Syrians, Iraqis, and Kurds finish this fight they've been having off and on, with the parties shifting who they're allied with from time to time, for at least the past thousand or so years.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

He has merely moved from a kinetic war footing to an economic one. That warning about destroying Turkeys economy.... how do people miss it? Are they stupid?

I see it as a brilliant move. No blood, no treasure, and the sword of Damocles hanging over Erdogan’s head.