Turkey’s Friday announcement that their invasion of Syrian Kurdistan is going to be expanded eastward, all the way to the Iraqi border, is not being welcomed by the US nor its allies, who are warning against reckless escalations.
NATO nations have been expressing growing disquiet about the risk of direct conflict between two of their most substantial member nations, and are saying the US and Turkey have been working hard to avoid direct conflict within Afrin District.
That’s been made quite a bit simpler by the fact that the US, though its troops are embedded in Syrian Kurdish territory, are not generally believed to be in Afrin in the first place. As the Turkish forces move onward, to Manbij and elsewhere, that will no longer be the case.
US calls to keep the war confined to Afrin, and Turkey’s warnings that the US troops would be targeted if they keep helping the Kurds, point to this being the tip of a potentially calamitous iceberg, with both nations determined not to let the other dictate their Syria policy, but in doing so steering themselves into a direct confrontation.
We gotta lotta goddamn gall telling countries they can’t just kill who the hell they wanna.
Turkey does a real good job killing their own Kurds when ever they want to ., But Turkey should not be allowed to go to Syria or Iraq and kill their Kurds . This rule is according to international law .
The USA couldn’t defeat ISIS in 5 years, they sure cannot fight Turkey in Syria with any level of success. I suppose they will use sanctions the weapon of choice for American Foreign Policy.
Both the Turkish and US positions in Syria have no legitimacy in international law nor coherent support from the world’s nations. And despite their military strength, clear-cut victories may be impossible and certainly will cost greatly in resources, lives and time. Fools rush in. Fools openly fighting each other in someone else’s country will start WWIII before any of the fool’s goals are realized, I expect.
Actually this very situation in Syria should and could be handled by the United Nations and international law . Only Assad’s forces would be legal in Syria . All uninvited armies should leave according to agreed upon international law . The NWO claims they want world government that is the rules of your world government . Why cant you follow your own rules .
US policy is failing in Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran. Time to tend to our own problems here at home and stop making trouble for others.
Turkey is at least actually being attacked from Syria,.. not that they don’t deserve it, but it is their GD neighborhood at the very least. I can’t see any American interests being served by staying. I suppose Israel wouldn’t mind a US v Turkey war.
Trust me, they would mind. The last thing Issraheel needs is (already on a thin ice) sour relations with all of its allies in the region.
Other than “sanctions” on Turkey, the galactic empire doesn’t have any solid strategy or the will or stamina for all out war with a fellow bro.
The message of olive branch couldn’t be anymore clearer.
The new world order: two NATO countries fighting each other in a third country. Militarism run amok.