Tensions between Turkey and its Kurdish minority were already on the rise over the refugee crisis at the border town of Kobani. Today, it got dramatically worse, as Turkish warplanes bombing Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters near the Iraq border.
The Turkish military claimed the attacks at Daglica, due north of Irbil, were retaliation for a PKK shelling of a nearby military outpost. Details of casualties are as yet unclear, though the PKK denied any.
The PKK slammed the move, saying it was a violation of the existing ceasefire between them and the Turkish government. The ceasefire was supposed to lead to a settlement of decades of conflict.
PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan had recently warned that the peace process was about to collapse anyhow over Turkey not intervening on the behalf of Syrian Kurds along the border, and today’s attacks seem to have sealed that.
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This war led by the American-led Nato countries and the oil rich extremist Persian Gulf monarchies is getting messier — bloodier — and more complex by the day, especially when including the Libyan civil war that could easily spread to Egypt.
The end result will likely be major Islamic State suicide and guerilla attacks on oil fields, refineries and export terminals, and even the Suez Canal, that will cripple oil exports to Europe and Asia and result in a severe global economic recession that includes America — a recession that that could quickly expand into a global depression that will also claim the United States economy but will likely leave an economically weaken nuclear-armed and oil and gas rich Russia reasonably strong compared to the rest — much to the chagrin of America and Nato countries, including Turkey that will, when the economic fan hits the poop, crumble into sectarian civil war.
It is unfortunate the United Nations which was designed to prevent such folly is failing as miserably as its League of Nations predecessor — a failure that resulted in the Second World War.
The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organisation founded on 10 January 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War, says Wiki. It was the first international organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.
Its primary goals, as stated in its Covenant, included preventing wars through collective security and disarmament and settling international disputes through negotiation and arbitration, according to Wiki. Other issues in this and related treaties included labour conditions, just treatment of native inhabitants, human and drug trafficking, arms trade, global health, prisoners of war, and protection of minorities in Europe. At its greatest extent from 28 September 1934 to 23 February 1935, it had 58 members.
So, who are the "allies" and as to what?
Doesn't really matter as long as the dollars keep flowing to the banks and war corporations, then back to the politicians who reliably vote for more war.