Turkey famously didn’t allow the launch of the Iraq invasion from them by the way.
agha0013 on
Exactly why they aren’t participating right now
ChristianLW3 on
Turkey: by sticking with the Turks during imperial collapse and republic birth, you have doomed your nation.
WhitishRogue on
I think the Kurds wanted a country, but ultimately knew it would be too tenuous. Being located in Turkey, Iran, and the unstable Iraq, it was a pipe dream.
Interestingly I recall Israel immediately giving their full support at the idea.
Dominarion on
What the Turks did in Syria to the Kurds was awful.
R2J4 on
«I don’t want to play with you anymore»
Manealendil on
There is a reason they didn´t help out with Iran this time around
ExLuckMaster on
“Oh I wouldn’t say help overthrow more like under new management”
ConsulJuliusCaesar on
NGL, as bad I feel for the Kurds, do you really want to add another state whose identity is built around a singular ethnic group whose divided unto different sub groups based on religion into the middle east whose borders overlap into territories of other countries percieved historic lands.
Sea-Literature4599 on
“Thanks for the help”-geopolitics: best I can do is vibes.
221missile on
Kurdistan in Iraq has remained largely autonomous since then.
gaddafis_ass_bayonet on
If Iran gets to arm proxies all across the Middle East then I don’t see why we shouldn’t be sending massive amounts of weapons to Kurds in Iran.
LastEsotericist on
There are reports Israel and the US gave Iraqi kurds a bunch of weapons this year to invade Iran with and they just kept them lol. Can’t blame them.
Plate_Armor_Man on
At least they have a mostly autonomous province in northern Iraq which has been doing better than the rest of the country.
TheHornySnake on
“Yeah, a free state of Sadam”
BaSingSe_Farmhand on
They were defacto-independent and the dominant faction of the Syrian Democratic Forces for a significant portion of the Syrian Civil War, but the new government in Syria wants to fully reunify. I think I am a bit out of date on the situation, but last I heard they were in talks with the new government to lay down their arms and reunite with the rest of Syria. But you can also see why they dont want to. They already are autonomous and have a Democratic-Confederalist style of government, which is probably the best they can get. Not to mention that being part of an Arab majority country doesnt tend to work out for them. And they had often been fighting the groups that became the new govnernment.
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Turkey famously didn’t allow the launch of the Iraq invasion from them by the way.
Exactly why they aren’t participating right now
Turkey: by sticking with the Turks during imperial collapse and republic birth, you have doomed your nation.
I think the Kurds wanted a country, but ultimately knew it would be too tenuous. Being located in Turkey, Iran, and the unstable Iraq, it was a pipe dream.
Interestingly I recall Israel immediately giving their full support at the idea.
What the Turks did in Syria to the Kurds was awful.
«I don’t want to play with you anymore»
There is a reason they didn´t help out with Iran this time around
“Oh I wouldn’t say help overthrow more like under new management”
NGL, as bad I feel for the Kurds, do you really want to add another state whose identity is built around a singular ethnic group whose divided unto different sub groups based on religion into the middle east whose borders overlap into territories of other countries percieved historic lands.
“Thanks for the help”-geopolitics: best I can do is vibes.
Kurdistan in Iraq has remained largely autonomous since then.
If Iran gets to arm proxies all across the Middle East then I don’t see why we shouldn’t be sending massive amounts of weapons to Kurds in Iran.
There are reports Israel and the US gave Iraqi kurds a bunch of weapons this year to invade Iran with and they just kept them lol. Can’t blame them.
At least they have a mostly autonomous province in northern Iraq which has been doing better than the rest of the country.
“Yeah, a free state of Sadam”
They were defacto-independent and the dominant faction of the Syrian Democratic Forces for a significant portion of the Syrian Civil War, but the new government in Syria wants to fully reunify. I think I am a bit out of date on the situation, but last I heard they were in talks with the new government to lay down their arms and reunite with the rest of Syria. But you can also see why they dont want to. They already are autonomous and have a Democratic-Confederalist style of government, which is probably the best they can get. Not to mention that being part of an Arab majority country doesnt tend to work out for them. And they had often been fighting the groups that became the new govnernment.