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Originally Posted by EricV
Concur. Getting involved in the Balkans might be simpler. Feel for the Kurds though.
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We can blame the Kurds not having a recognized homeland on the League of Nations and the arbitrary new nations they divided up without an in depth understanding of the groups within the borders who were ignored....Africa has the same issues with their ethic groups who are transient and ungovernable...only those placed in power and the rest of the worlds governments recognize the borders but all the minority groups are left to fend for themselves the Assyrians the Chaldeans the Kurds the Toauregs etc.....are all left flapping. The thing frustrating about our involvement with the Kurds is our government used them and we the U.S. soldiers were the ones telling them we had their back selling it like Amway ignoring the reality of we were going to leave them behind and our promises that emboldened them to action were empty. I understand the Kurds in Iraq are living in their homelands which expands into Iran, Turkey, Azerbeijan? etc....but they are hardheaded when it comes to even discussing moving to either country where the Kurds number 30-40 million where they have safety in numbers unlike Iraq where there are only 5 million or so. We better understand the emptiness of our governments promises but the people we promise live and die by it.
As far as taking land and giving it to the Kurds Iraq is he only nation weak enough and new enough to do it in but today Iraq is a proxy Iranian government
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Last edited by WarriorDiplomat; 10-09-2019 at 08:34.
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