Fox News is reporting the US military has been ordered by Trump not to assist the Kurds.
But wasn’t he going to destroy the Turkish economy if they did this?
Right after he gets done repealing and replacing Obamacare.
If “assist the Kurds” with air support and a no-fly zone means that we go to war with a NATO “ally”, I’m not the least bit surprised that the President told them not to.
He was planning on building a wall between Syria and Turkey and making Turkey pay for it.
I think you got this totally backwards. It’s Turkey who is starting a war.
Can I ask, since you are a Trump supporter, does some of your acceptance of Trump’s authoritarian streaks as just sort of “there he goes again” carry over into your opinions of other authoritarian leaders around the world? I mean, here we are where Erdogan is starting a war with the groups that beat the shit out of ISIS at our behest, and you don’t seem very concerned with Erdogan at all. I’m curious as to whether you see yourself giving him the benefit of the doubt since he has some Trump-like characteristics.
What do the Kurds have to negotiate with? The only asset the Kurds had was American support and they just lost that. Turkey will be able to just take everything they want. All the Kurds can offer is a surrender.
I agree. I said it was a mistake for America to get involved in Syria back when Obama sent troops there. It was a conflict between a brutal dictatorship and religious fanatics; there was no good side for us to fight for. Obama was being unrealistic in thinking he could impose some third alternative.
No, I’m crystal clear on who is starting the war. We’re simply not going to intervene on the other (Kurd) side, by bombing Turks or shooting down Turkish jets. That’s not remotely realistic.
I think Erdogan is a piece of shit and I deeply wish the coup against him had succeeded. I suppose now I’ll get called anti-democracy or some shit.
I don’t think that’s the case. Throughout this whole thread you’ve seemed ambivalent as to whether Turkey killing Kurds is a problem for you. Thanks for clearing it up.
Moron Trump says that the attack he greenlit is a “bad idea”.
Daniel Dale, CNN, brings the latest from Trump:
Like the fucking moron has ever ‘looked’ at history and culture.
More:
Why won’t the callous bastard just fucking die, already?
I can’t imagine a more nightmarish scenario than being at Dover to see the transfer of my loved one’s remains & finding out I have to also meet an extremely public figure in the midst of it.
Will need to read an exact transcript of what Trump said to see whether they called him “sir”.
Won’t anybody think of Trump Towers Istanbul? If Trump doesn’t let Erdoğan bomb the hell out of the people who did all of our heavy lifting against ISIS, who’s to say what might happen to Trump Towers Istanbul?
Selfish libtards! :mad:
Turkey to be hit with sanctions.
Gotta be signed by Dotard, right? And they probably should pass this with a veto-proof tally (which probably won’t be hard, but still, it raises the bar a bit higher).
IMHO, Erdogan started this operation because in Turkey the economy is going worse and he needs to gain “nationalist” votes.
BTW, Kurdistan Workers Party is not a nice organisation.