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  1. Scottty

    Middle East Trump makes way for Turkey operation against Kurds in Syria

    Is there any in those parts of Syria?
  2. Scottty

    Middle East Trump makes way for Turkey operation against Kurds in Syria

    Don't ask me how reliable this source is, but I found this: https://www.debka.com/russian-warning-halts-turkish-syria-operation-us-pullback-from-e-syria-too-opens-door-to-iran/
  3. Scottty

    Middle East Trump makes way for Turkey operation against Kurds in Syria

    It won't be openly admitted as an actual war between Russia and Turkey though. Russia needs access through the Bosphorus, and Turkey needs Russian gas.
  4. Scottty

    Middle East Trump makes way for Turkey operation against Kurds in Syria

    Quietly inform the Russians that America won't intervene if the Russian forces that are supporting Assad against the rebels were to "accidentally" bomb Turkish forces in Syria?
  5. Scottty

    Middle East Trump makes way for Turkey operation against Kurds in Syria

    Was Turkey ever a good ally, I wonder? Some people in this world... well, as Lyndon Johnson said about Edgar Hoover: "It’s probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in. " But that assumes that once inside the tent...
  6. Scottty

    Middle East Trump makes way for Turkey operation against Kurds in Syria

    I remember reading a quote by someone (in a novel I think actually) about why America left Saddam Hussein in power in Iraq after the first Gulf War, rather then advancing on Baghdad and deposing him then. They understood that evil as he was, he was a lesser evil compared to what would be let...
  7. Scottty

    Middle East Trump makes way for Turkey operation against Kurds in Syria

    So how feasible would it be for US forces there to dig in and repel the Turk, if that is what you are wishing for?
  8. Scottty

    Middle East Trump makes way for Turkey operation against Kurds in Syria

    I think that excuse, if true, goes under the category of Any Sufficiently Advanced Stupidity Is Functionally Indistinguishable From Malice.
  9. Scottty

    Middle East Trump makes way for Turkey operation against Kurds in Syria

    Well, if Trump didn't go to fight in the stupid, senseless meatgrinder war of Vietnam, he can't very well order other people to go and fight in stupid wars now, can he? Better just call all the troops home.
  10. Scottty

    Middle East Trump makes way for Turkey operation against Kurds in Syria

    Donald Trump is afraid of being controversial?
  11. Scottty

    Middle East Trump makes way for Turkey operation against Kurds in Syria

    Turkey will not be marching on Damascus... not while Russia has Assad's back, and NATO won't be coming to the party.
  12. Scottty

    Middle East Trump makes way for Turkey operation against Kurds in Syria

    Would potentially driving Turkey into the Russian camp be all that good an idea?
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