It took just 72 hours for the Iraqi military to reverse over three years of territorial gains by Iraqi Kurdistan, and hopes of independence from Iraq after the September 25 referendum seem less certain than ever.
Over 92% of Kurds voted in favor of declaring independence, with a large turnout. Iraqi officials have rejected the vote, and have cut off Kurdish airports and border crossings. With mounting territory losses in Iraq’s offensive, it’s not clear what comes next.
So far, the Iraqi military hasn’t moved into the recognized territory of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), but with Prime Minister Hayder Abadi saying he considers the referendum “in the past,” Iraq seems unwilling to even consider independence happening.
Kurdish President Massoud Barzani has yet to comment on the losses, but officials within the Kurdish region say they believe Barzani has lost a lot of political credibility due to the losses, and could quickly be forced to give up power outright.
The “Kurdish inhabited area’s” in the map is at best inhabited by less than 8%, the rest, Assyrians, Arabs, yazidis and Turkmen are not particularly fond of being governed by these opportunistic backstabbers and USraeli supported nomads originally from the province of Kordistan in Iran.
They gobbled up these land and resources while the rest of the country were bleeding to death at the hands of the likewise US supported ISIS, in full cooperation with the very same terrorist organisation. After having done so they let isis have their way with them.
As the Iraqi national army approached, they ran back to the mountains up north cursing the US for having dumped them (again).
And why is that? Well, US can’t openly fight the Iraqi army of course and isis is defeated and can’t do the job for them either and since the areas bordering Syria is back under Iraqi control, US will have a hard time finding a way to to continue the logistics of war materiel to the kurds in Syria and their cuttroaths of various flavours primarily the 50% Kurd 50% isis cutthroat SDF. Eventually The Kurds in Syria due to US’s unsustainable position there, will have to hand back their loot too. Will they do it now our wait to US dumps them again? That’s the question.