Posted on 01/18/2018 8:32:22 PM PST by SunkenCiv
U.S. military support for Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which are led by the Kurdish YPG militia, have left Turkey furious. Officials have even warned that Turkish troops are ready to cross into neighboring Syria... Erdogan has also warned of an imminent incursion into Kurdish-controlled Afrin in northwest Syria... With around one-fifth of Turkeys population identifying as Kurdish, Turkey views the PKK and moves toward Kurdish independence regionally as an existential threat... "The U.S. is directly providing arms to a group ... whose ultimate ambition is not defeating ISIS," said Ziya Meral, a Turkey analyst at the Centre for Historical Analysis and Conflict Research, a new British army think tank. "This group's ultimate ambition is creating an independent Kurdistan." ...Meral said that mistakes committed by the Turkish state in crushing the movement and trying to force the minority to assimilate have resulted in deep grievances among many Kurds.
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According to Johannes Magnus, Gog of Magog was the kind of Sweden. Russia is not Magog
Big question: does it happen as soon as it is theoretically possible?
The USA — all the Americas — are almost puzzlingly absent from eschatology.
What could wipe it from the map? Yellowstone blows?
Son, they were koranimals that were hounded out of New California into the wastes of Central Asia where they survive on tree bark and vermin.
Lemme guess...you liked him better when he was supporting Mo Morsi and ISIS.
If it was managed well and there was some land swaps to make a more contiguous border and there was recompense for Kurds and other nationalities who volunteer to relocate that area of the world would be much happier.
I am of the opinion that Armenia should also be enlarged at the expense of Turkey.
A lot of peace would break out if the evil done by the mandarins of the dying British Empire when they purposefully drew boarders to divide tribes and cultures was undone.
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