Let's get over this idea of Turkey being a NATO ally any longer. It just isn't and hasn't been the case for years. The idea of employing Kurdish proxy forces against Iran and Turkey has been written about ad nauseum. There cannot possibly be one person who reads here that can claim to be surprised that this 'development' was anything other then THE PLAN. I'll relink a brief sampling of posts talking about these unsurprising, totally predictable developments
Iran:
*July 11/2016: Iran’s Kurds Now Growing Restless?? Kurdish Mercenaries Attack Iranian Gov. Officials*May 5 2016: Kurds on the Attack in Iran- As Predicted ...... *April 17 2016 : Iran's Forgotten Kurds Step Up the Struggle- So The Media Promotion Begins*August 07/2015: P5+1 is a distraction. Early Seeds of Iranian destabilization cross the Turkish border
Turkey:
*Turkey's Destabilization- Kickin' It Up a Notch? Or Two,Three, Ten Notches?? *2014: Pt.2- Kurd/ ISIS Symbiosis- The impending destruction of Turkey * Nov. 19/2014: Kurd/ ISIS Symbiosis - The Impending Destruction of Turkey. Clearly the US is threatening Turkey- Not a surprise. The US is claiming they'll make a buffer zone in annexed Syrian territory to keep Turkey's border safe. This is grade A rubbish. The US is simply justifying their continued occupation of Syria's territory.As reported the other day additional troops and equipment are coming into Syria. We already know the US has set up outposts along the Turkish border.Occupation and a front line base to launch attacks into Turkey and Iran is THE PLAN.Link
The United States “will devastate Turkey economically if they hit Kurds,” Trump tweeted.
Pompeo told reporters in Riyadh that he assumed Trump meant the United States would levy sanctions on Turkey if they attacked the Kurds but that he didn’t know for certain.“I assume he’s speaking about those kinds of things, but you would have to ask him,” said Pompeo, who noted that he had not talked to Trump about the tweet.
Why would Pompeo speak to Trump about this tweet?- It's right on message!
Pompeo said U.S. messaging over concerns about Turkish attacks on the Kurds has never changed.
“The administration has been very consistent with respect to our requirement that the Turks not go after the Kurds in ways that are inappropriate,” Pompeo said. “If they are terrorists, we’re all about taking down extremists wherever we find them. I think the president’s comments this morning are consistent with that.”Trump’s tweet, which preceded the Turkish lira losing about 0.84 percent of its value against the dollar, included a demand that Turkey create a ” 20-mile safe zone.”Pompeo said U.S. and Turkish diplomats had been negotiating such an arrangement this week, but nothing had been finalized.?
Will Turkey agree to this 'arrangement'? Not if it's just a free pass to attack Turkey zone- Which is what it's going to be. Not if it's going to entrench a non ally, alongside another non ally, right at their border. Now more then ever Turkey and Syria are sleeping right in the same bed. Side by side.
“We want to make sure that the folks who fought with us to take down the caliphate and ISIS have security and also that terrorists [in] Syria aren’t able to attack Turkey – those are our twin aims,” he told reporters after meeting with the leaders of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh"
Pompeo is OK with Trump's messageCaveat Emptor Turkish leadership- As you all certainly know....
“Both sides are trying to negotiate the width of a potential safe zone,” said Soner Cagaptay, a Turkey scholar at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “The idea is that Turkish troops and Ankara-backed forces would move into the rural areas in the safe zone, while the YPG would retain control of some of the Kurdish majority cities. This would be a sharing agreement that might be acceptable to all sides, if the U.S. stands behind it.”
If the US stands behind it? If the US stands behind it? And they won't. They have no intention to keep this so called sharing agreement. Despite the presentation. Spin. Lie. Syria’s Kurds: The new frontline in confronting Iran and Turkey
"US President Donald J. Trump’s threat to devastate Turkey’s economy if Turkish troops attack Syrian Kurds allied with the United States in the wake of the announced withdrawal of American forces potentially serves his broader goal of letting regional forces fight for common goals like countering Iranian influence in Syria.
Mr. Trump’s threat coupled with a call on Turkey to create a 26-kilometre buffer zone to protect Turkey from a perceived Kurdish threat was designed to pre-empt a Turkish strike against the People’s Protection Units (YPG) that Ankara asserts is part of the outlawed Kurdish Workers Party (PKK)"
You'll notice Michael Rubin is quoted in the above Ekurd article?
“Simply put, as Qatar has become the go-to financier of the Muslim Brotherhood and its more radical offshoot groups around the globe, Turkey has become their armorer,” said Turkey scholar Michael Rubin"
Turkey scholar? Recall Michael Rubin's scholarship in this post?August 2015: Is Turkey Heading to Partition? American Enterprise Institute
American Enterprise Institute- Total Neo - Con, everything for Israel & Zionists, think tank. Not really a surprise considering so much of the information that’s been posted here on the subject of the collusion between Israel & Kurds. Remaking the middle east for the benefit of Israel/NATO Including the inevitable terror state creation which will be known as Kurdistan.
Or how about the Turkey 'scholar' in this post? Talking about a coup in Turkey, months before one actually took place? In July of 2016. What a 'coincidence' right? Oh wait, I'm not a coincidence theorist. Clearly a plan.
Wednesday, March 23, 2016: Coup In Turkey? Neo-Cons Talk Coup & Partition- Juncker: No accession to EU for Turkey in next 10 years!
So if the Turkish military moves to oust Erdogan and place his inner circle behind bars, could they get away with it?In the realm of analysis rather than advocacy, the answer is yes."
Trumps threat to Turkey con't:
Mr. Trump’s threat to devastate the Turkish economy, makes Gulf support for the Kurds more feasible.
The same could be said from a Saudi and UAE perspective for Manbij not only with regard to Turkey but also Iran’s presence in Syria. Frontlines and tactics may be shifting, US and Gulf geopolitical goals have not.
Why just the other day I stated exactly that fact. Tactics may change but the geopolitical goals are still the same- The regional remake is still on.
Pompeo is informing us all, straight out, in plain talk, that the goal is the same. Only the means/method or way to achieve the goal is changing.NOTHING MORE. That tells me the regional remake is still on. And most probably we've entered a new phase that requires this 'tactical change'
All these years later there has been no need for this independent autodidact (self taught) analyst thinker to deviate from the theory long presented, that we are witnessing the unfolding of a geostrategic regional remake in real time.Destroy Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran. While remaking the region to benefit the US and Israel. While in the bigger picture keeping Russia and China in check.We have moves and counter moves to block the planned remake. How will this end? Recently discussed in these posts below:
- US Non Withdrawal from Syria: Of Course, Blame Turkey
- Creating Kurdistan & Peace in Syria/Regional Peace? Peter Koenig Kicks Off The Hard Sell