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Turkish Jets Bomb Iranian Militias Heading to Afrin
Al Mayadeen ^ | Feb. 20,2018 | Popular videos

Posted on 02/20/2018 8:42:59 AM PST by bunkerhill7

Turkish jets bombard Iranian militia entering Afrin


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afrin; christianpersecution; erdogan; hassannasrallah; hezbollah; iran; israel; jerusalem; kurdistan; kurds; lebanon; letshavejerusalem; localnews; receptayyiperdogan; syria; turkey; waronterror
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To: bunkerhill7

Is this like the Iran-Iraq War again, where we could root for deaths on both sides?


21 posted on 02/20/2018 10:50:28 AM PST by montag813
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To: bunkerhill7
Afrin Kurdratic Equation

[snicker]

Very creative :)

22 posted on 02/20/2018 11:00:03 AM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: bunkerhill7

See, if you call them “Iranian” then it’s okay to murder them.


23 posted on 02/20/2018 11:07:53 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: bunkerhill7

One more reason to stay the h*ll out of there. Let them kill each other not our finest.


24 posted on 02/20/2018 11:09:41 AM PST by McGruff (#ObamaGate)
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To: bunkerhill7

ErDOGan is playing NATO like a fiddle - if we object, he will say he was encouraged - if we are silent, we ARE encouraging him.

PKK v Iranian elites (like the 65th) v “I am Turk!”

What could go wr...


25 posted on 02/20/2018 11:12:07 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Vive la revolution!)
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To: bunkerhill7

This war has more sides than a solid hexagon.


26 posted on 02/20/2018 11:18:40 AM PST by xkaydet65
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To: bunkerhill7

In Amir Tsarfati’s last video, he says the Iranians are using Afghan and Iraqi Shiites as their proxies, what Amir calls “cheap labor” to do their dirty work.

Does this explain the Turkish attack? Not to me, really, unless Sunni-Shiite trumps Turkish-Kurdish. Amir says there are about 10 different wars going on there.


27 posted on 02/20/2018 11:25:36 AM PST by firebrand
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To: rlmorel

Were you about 50 when that happened?

When, I turned 50 or as my wife called it, I began, “My Reformation”. I called it, “No more liberals, stupid and/or bad people.

First, I refused to argue or try discuss anything with liberals. That has not changed.

Told my bosses, that I would not work with a new hire, until they had been with us a year. Even, then, I had the right of refusal.

Told my priest that 3 terms as senior warden were enough. I would serve on special long term projects, one at a time.

That has evolved to short term jobs, basically for a church service or afterwards.

My family comes first re time/energy/resources.


28 posted on 02/20/2018 11:31:53 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive of 63+ million Trump Deplorables. You will lose!)
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To: Grampa Dave

I think you are right. It was somewhere between 45 and 50...

After I spent some time attending counter-demonstrations in Washington, I think that is when the cement set for me...

(Heh, never thought of it that way, but I think you are right)


29 posted on 02/20/2018 11:43:40 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette)
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To: Grampa Dave

Hence your tagline. : )

I also rarely discuss anything of significance with liberals or people with anti-Christian attitudes. But I do stay connected, especially with younger relations, remembering what I fool I was when I was young.

Over the years, people change, and at times they have come to me for ideas because they know I won’t bark at them. Meanwhile, I save myself a lot of personal heartbreak.


30 posted on 02/20/2018 12:10:40 PM PST by keats5
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To: bunkerhill7

Turks fighting Iranians....who do we cheer for?


31 posted on 02/20/2018 12:21:45 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (No DACA Caca....Send the Nightmares home. "Americans are Dreamers, too." President Trump)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

I say arm both sides, sit back, and pop some popcorn.


32 posted on 02/20/2018 12:25:34 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: bunkerhill7

The Syria Equation can’t be so simple. Need more variables for Iran, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, Lebanon, Hizbollah, Muslim Brotherhood, al Queda, NATO members and NATO HQ. Armenia has an eye on things there as well

Also need a coefficient of craziness adjustment factor when the moon waxes full, and for holidays. They can worked up over those.


33 posted on 02/20/2018 12:26:56 PM PST by BeauBo
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Turks are invading Syrian land and now killing Syrian auxillary troops. Thinks are getting heavy (again) in M.E.


34 posted on 02/20/2018 12:27:05 PM PST by veracious (UN = OIC = Islam ; Dems may change USAgov completely, just amend USConstitution)
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To: dfwgator

Turks killing Iranians?

Pass some of that popcorn over here!


35 posted on 02/20/2018 12:34:29 PM PST by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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To: BTerclinger

Now all we need is the Saudis in the mix and we’re all set.


36 posted on 02/20/2018 12:38:19 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: SubMareener

Are you kidding?

You’ll be alive 20 years from now with Lera posting this stuff :)


37 posted on 02/20/2018 12:47:24 PM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know saying Syrian rebels in anost back in Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

Dead bodies :)


38 posted on 02/20/2018 12:48:24 PM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know saying Syrian rebels in anost back in Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: bunkerhill7

I finally have a beef with Trump.

Why is Iranian backed militias, in an Alliance with Assad, entering Afrin?

In the immediate sense it is being done under the guise of helping the Kurds in Afrin, as they are the main targets in Afrin that Erdogan is after.

No matter that immediate sense, the long term is to deny Trukey a physical hold in any major way, on any part of Sryia, and thus a major voice in any long term Syrian settlement.

Also, in the long term it will not be in the Kurds long term interest as they could lose what measure of control they have in Afrin to Assad (and the Iranian backed militias fighting for him), which will blunt there efforts for a zone of autonomy in northern Syria.

Why have the Kurds made this alliance of convenience with Assad? (A) Because Trump did not offer them any direct U.S. support vis-a-vis Afrin and, (B) if Erdogan gets control of Afrin the rest of what the Kurds now hold in northern Sryia could become vulnerable to further attacks from Erdogan.

Trump needed to have laid down a big “Red Line” to Erdogan - stay out of Syria. He has let Erdogan pretend it’s about “terrorist threats to Turkey” in northern Syria, when it is all about ethnic cleansing of Kurds on his border in Syria. It is a giant U.S. mistake and the move by Assad and his allies is just the first shoe to drop from it.


39 posted on 02/20/2018 1:15:15 PM PST by Wuli
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To: dfwgator

Don’t bogard it, man. This is going to be a long, dull watch.


40 posted on 02/20/2018 1:35:14 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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