US officials are investigating reports that the Turkish government has violated end-use agreements on US-provided arms in the invasion of northeastern Syria, saying initial findings are that the claims are credible.
This conclusion has led to further investigation and review. This could be a big issue for US arms sales to Turkey, particularly at a time when Turkey’s invasion of Syria has made them unpopular in Congress.
The US rarely makes a big deal out of violations of end-use agreements by allies, which is to say that they’ve made it a point not to punish the Saudis for all the civilians they’ve killed. Turkey’s invasion of Syrian Kurdish territory has been high-profile, however, and puts officials in a bit of a difficult position.
It’s also an occasion, increasingly common in Syria, where the US has armed both sides of a conflict, as the Kurds are surely armed almost entirely with US arms, and while Turkey buys from a few NATO nations, the US is clearly a major source.
Simple solution to all that: stop shipping weapons abroad, withdraw all US military personnel to US territory, declare peace.
Blah, blah.
US not honoring own laws on supplying weapons to militants — calling them “vetted”. And then, with arms in possession, they do what they please, and we knew it from the start.
Kurds have committed major ethnic cleansing of Arab population every place they went, with US air support to make it easier. They took properties, live in those stolen homes, even now after US abandoned those areas.
Arming people to violently abuse their neighbors, use the weapons for “democracy” as they force their opinions on everybody else — yes, this is our specialty, the unmatched masters of the universe!