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Trump's fans will never admit it, but Trump screwed the pooch good and hard this time.

I doubt the Kurds would align with Iran, as the former is Sunni and the latter is Shiite.

Wag the dog. News of the war cuts into impeachment news time.

Maybe Turkey was going to attack and they gave the US a chance to withdraw..

What we think is going on and what is actually happening are never the same thing.

Not so fast there!


For 24 hours last week, Trey Gowdy, the former South Carolina congressman best known for leading congressional investigations of Hillary Clinton, was the new face of President Donald Trump’s outside legal defense and a symbol of a streamlined effort to respond to a fast-moving impeachment inquiry.

A day later, the arrangement fell apart, with lobbying rules prohibiting Gowdy from starting until January, possibly after the inquiry is over. Now, according to two people familiar with events, Gowdy is never expected to join the team. And Trump advisers are back to square one, searching for a different lawyer.

I'm not sure the Sunni vs Shiite thing make much of a difference in this situation.

> Assad/Syria (Alawite not Shiite) and Iran are military allies.

> Iran and Russia are military allies.

> It seems that Assad/Syria and the Syrian Kurds are now military allies.

> This essentially makes the Syrian Kurds military allies with Russia.

> For the Syrian Kurds to become military allies with Iran is not that far of a stretch.

>>> Enemy of mye enemy <<<

Now, it is true the Syrian Kurds are leftist leaning, while the Iraqi Kurds are democracy leaning, and true that they (historically) have not always seen eye to eye on a variety of issues.

None the less, it isn't hard to imagine the USA F__king the Iraqi Kurds (hey, it is our geopolitical pattern). This could easily push the Syrian Kurds & Iraqi Kurds together. If that happened (and I think it merely a matter of time) the "united" Kurds would essentially be military allies with Syria, Russia and (defacto) Iran.

If the Kurds united (and I fully admit that is not yet on the table) in hopes of building a country (not altogether unlike what happened in Eastern Europe after the fall of the USSR), it is quite likely that in spite of religious differences the Assad/Syria, Russia, Iran and this "unified" Kurdistan would in fact become military allies to counter USA-Saudi influence in the Middle East.

(Sorry... I kind of repeated that last point.. )

Anyway, Russia & Iran both want to counter USA-Saudi influence, both are smart enough to not be overly picky about their military allies.

Of course Russia isn't any more trust worthy than the USA when it comes to using and then screwing other countries. But a military alliance of Russia-Assad/Syria-Iran-Kurdistan is probably exactly what Putin would love to form, however loosely.

I wouldn't bet my lunch money either for or against a loose alliance that involve the Kurds and Iran... stranger things have happened in the world of geopolitical/military alliances in the modern history of the world.

If the trumpsterf*** wanted out of the Endless Wars, why didn't he call on The Great Negotiator (himself) to make a deal that would not have resulted in the roadside slaughter of Kurds?
... Maybe he doesn't know the Turkish as well as he knows terrorists


Years ago, someone said that "Pull Out" was the proper term (with a wink and a nod) for what Obama was doing to Iraq.

I think the same can be said here.

A nice war may be a good distraction from all of this impeachment nonsense

The Trump administration would be proud:

Dean has declined to speak with investigators since Saturday, the warrant states.
He first refused to be interviewed by the detectives in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, and his attorneys told police that he was going to provide a written statement at a later date, according to the document.
In most police shootings, officers give an oral or written statement about what happened for an internal investigation, either immediately after the shooting or within 72 hours.
As Dean resigned from his job at the police department on Monday, he also declined to provide a written statement, the affidavit states.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Interim Police Chief Ed Kraus confirmed that Dean has not been cooperating.

The lady had a gun.

Dean had a quick trigger finger.

Regardless, my point was that Dean is following the ways of the trump administration by refusing to cooperate.

AG Bill Barr recent speech at Notre Dame kills it

oh

Oh, it killed something all right.

The great, fantasticest Donald Savior Trump just had his ghost deliver the Bestest cease fire deal to Turkey to save the Kurds!!

The Kurds should honor him and build a statue of him ... or at least an effigy.