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Tuesday, October 29, 2019

What the Trump decision about Turkey and The Kurds means for America and it's allies

The first question we need to ask is: Who are the Kurds, and what to they mean for the safety of the Western World? The Kurds are the largest ethnicity in the world with no ethnic state. They have been fighting ISIS with a largely female fighting battalion since in the Muslim religion if a man is killed by a woman, they will not go to the same afterlife as other men which mean that ISIS fighter run directly away from them due to not wanting to be killed by them. The Kurds are fighting the fight against ISIS with that hope that they will be able to control enough land to declare their country of Kurdistan as sovereign nation.
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The connection of allegiance to the United States is another important factor. The main connection that America has to the Kurds is through Israel. Inside the Middle East, the closest allegiance that the Kurds have is Israel, and visa-versa. Israel is America's best ally in the Middle East and through that connection the US army was working closely with the Kurds to defeat ISIS.

Trump abruptly called for the US to exit Syria and leave the Kurds to "Be Slaughtered". The decision was made after phone call with Turkish President Erdogan who is one of the prime enemies to the Kurdish people. Trump may have inadvertently caused the Kurds to be killed in their own homeland.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/14/opinions/why-did-trump-abandon-kurds-after-call-with-erdogan-ghitis/index.html
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 3, 2019 at 10:11 PM

    This is interesting, I had not even heard of the Kurds before looking at this post. I may be biased in this, but I extremely disagree with Trump's decision. Leaving the Kurds to "be slaughtered" is not only a bad decision as the biggest contributor to the United Nations, but it also gives Israel the right to lose respect for America. Without Israel, America is left with no ally to defeat ISIS. Pulling troops out of the Middle East is not the solution to the chaos happening and it will not stop anytime soon.

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  2. AnonymousDecember 6, 2019 at 2:07 PM

    The problem of Kurdish autonomy is quite a difficult one. While there are over forty million Kurds, they are discriminated against throughout the Middle East and are only really protected in Rojava and Kurdistan. The issue there, however, is that although the organizations trying to protect Kurds are humanitarian and protect civilians, they are labeled as terrorist organizations by NATO because they are socialist. This doubtless contributed to the President's decision to withdraw from the region.

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