Syria - Trump Gives A Green Light For Another
Turkish Invasion
By Moon Of Alabama
October 07, 2019 "Information
Clearing House" -
This morning U.S. President
Donald Trump has a little surprise for the
Kurds in Syria:
Today, President Donald J. Trump spoke with
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey by
telephone. Turkey will soon be moving forward
with its long-planned operation into Northern
Syria. The United States Armed Forces will not
support or be involved in the operation, and
United States forces, having defeated the ISIS
territorial “Caliphate,” will no longer be in
the immediate area.
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Turkey will now be responsible for all ISIS
fighters in the area captured over the past two
years in the wake of the defeat of the
territorial “Caliphate” by the United States.
This actually is not a surprise. Trump had tried
several times to remove the U.S. from Syria and was
only held back by the borg. Last December then
Secretary of Defense James Mattis resigned when
Trump ordered the troops to leave Syria. I do not
expect anything similar to happen now.
Turkey long wanted to move into the Syrian border
area east of the Euphrates. It sees the YPG
resistance group, with who the U.S. allied to go
after ISIS, as a threat to its country. That view is
justified.
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Erdogan wants to take a 30 kilometer deep strip
including the M4 highway which runs west to east in
that area.
But the border area Erdogan marked is quite
populated with some 850,000 people living there.
Most of them are Kurds.
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Turkey wants to replace those Kurds with the
Syrian mob that it armed and supported against the
Syrian government troops. These people and their
families currently live in Turkey. To move them into
north Syria would be one of the largest ethnic
cleansing operation the world has seen in recent
times.
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A saying goes "The Kurds have no
friends but the mountains." But there
are no mountains in Syria's north east.
While the YPG might want to fight off a
Turkish invasion they have little chance
to succeed. The land is flat and the YPG
forces only have light arms.
There is only one solution for them. They will
have to call up the Syrian government and ask it to
come back into the north east. That would remove the
Turkish concerns and would likely prevent further
Turkish moves.
The second part of Trump's statement, that Turkey
will take responsible for imprisoned ISIS fighters
and families, can not be taken serious. Those camps
are far beyond the border zone Erdogan seeks.
Source:
ISW -
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It was long predicted that the
Kurds will become the biggest losers of the war
on Syria. They already lost Afrin in the north west
to a Turkish invasion. Will they again resist to
submit to the central government and repeat that
mistake? One would hope that they are smarter than
that but I would not bet on it.
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==See Also==
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allow Turkey to invade northern Syria and
potentially wipe out U.S.-allied Kurdish fighters;
: Prominent lawmakers admonished the White
House for its decision to allow Turkey to invade
northern Syria and potentially wipe out U.S.-allied
Kurdish fighters
U.S. troops begin to pullout
from northeast Syria as Turkey prepares operation:
Syrian Kurdish fighters accused Washington of
failing to abide by its commitments to its key
allies in the fight against IS.
The Kurds fought with us, but
were paid to do so: Trump
Trump ally Lindsey Graham
says senate will seek to reverse decision
Looming Turkish invasion of
Syria endangers 80 trapped Australians
Trump
threatens to ‘totally destroy and obliterate’
Turkey’s economy over Syria:
“If Turkey does anything that I, in
my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be
off-limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate
the Economy of Turkey.”
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