So on the call Erdogan said remove or troops or die. And Trump tucked tail and ran?
Nope.
Turkey wanted a so-called buffer zone all along the border. We agreed to it months ago. This is an area that the Kurds had only occupied about 3 years ago, chasing down ISIS.
Previously the area was occupied by Assad’s troops.
Most of this buffer zone is majority Turkomen and Arab, not Kurds.
We don’t do what Erdogan says, just because he wants it, ever.
We didn’t run, we simply moved about 100 troops about 40 kilometers from their obsertvation posts.
We have 19 bases in the former Syria, now Rojava.
We are pouring concrete and requisitioning fuel, hardly tucking tails.....
We are building a new base right across the border in Jordan that is so big and permanent that we are hiring a community planner for the American personnel and their families to live in.
The Rojava Kurds aren’t aligned politically with the Iraqi Kurds that most people thing of.