The ever-escalating Iraq War is becoming less and less about Iraq and more about the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), with growing aid being thrown at the Peshmerga fighters that are doing much of the heavy lifting in the war.
Only weeks ago it was unthinkable that the US would directly arm the Peshmerga. Now, not only are they openly doing so, but several European nations are as well. ISIS, of course, is largely using US arms as well, looted from Mosul or given to them by the US in Syria.
US officials visiting the nation are less interested in going to Baghdad than Irbil at this point, and US airstrikes are being conducted so far primarily to back Peshmerga battles, not the fights between ISIS and the Iraqi military further south.
Kurdish analysts are expecting this to pay off big down the road, adding to the autonomous KRG region’s global influence, and making it easier to secede from Iraq in the future.
Could this have anything to do with Israel….? I smell oil here.
The hesitation in supporting Pesh Merga in the past stems from idiotic US foreign policy. Of course Iraq would split into three states if given the opportunity. What I am curious about –all those Kurds in Turkey openly supporting their fellow Kurds in Iraq–what will happen? How strong will be Erdogan's reaction?
{Of course Iraq would split into three states if given the opportunity. }
This is NOT natural. There is deliberate force to partition Iraq based on Oded Yinon Protocol for "greater Israel. The Kurds are spying for Israel since 1965 against Iraq and neighboring countries. Israel is doing anything to erect "Second Israel" in the region where NO one will accept and will lead to more blood shed. We are fed up with the criminal West and its stooges, the kurds. http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics…
"This is NOT natural."
Nothing is more natural than for an even-more-artificial-than-usual nation-state like Iraq to come apart at the seams when leaders among its various religious and ethnic groups notice a power vacuum that might allow them to pursue their own interests instead of trying to hold together Winston Churchill's Cairo Conference cocktail-napkin scheme for rewarding Britain's allies after World War One.
The first country that should be divided in many pieces is the Divided States of America. Half of the coutry is stolen from Mexican and the rest from the indigenous population. The south is mainly populat ed by the African who were kidnapped from Africa.
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Show me a nation that is not mixed. This statement is borrowd from Kissinger, Denis Gelb, a zionist and artichect of Iraq partition where is going to take it in to his grave so Kissinger, and Joe Biden, a self claimed ZIONIST. We don't need 'second Israel" run hby the divided states of america.
The US has been trying to figure out a way to support the USG-friendly Kurd desire to separate from Iran-friendly Baghdad – without making it look like they're doing it. I suspect that even if they are successful, the Kurds are not the "friends" the USG is making them out to be…in the long run. Not that the USG could ever be accused of being duplicitous…