PubliusDeLaMancha t1_ixzf24i wrote
Reply to comment by anti-DHMO-activist in Returning to normal relations with Russia would be a mistake, says Lithuanian president by hieronymusanonymous
It's an everybody thing.
Do you actually believe "the world" would have accepted the US forcibly decreasing Iraqs borders to establish an independent Kurdistan? The entire cause of the enmity between Saddam and the West was his desire to conquer Kuwait.. Changing Iraqs borders even in favor of Kurds would have undermined the Western intervention entirely.
If you want to blame someone historically, blame the British for not guaranteeing a Kurdistan out of the former Ottoman Empire (Arabs got like 12 states remember)
Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran all presently administer territory with Kurdish majorities.. They are free to establish a Kurdistan at any point in time.. Why haven't they?
If anything, supporting an independent Kurdistan is primarily a US-only thing (not of their government but popular support of their people)
anti-DHMO-activist t1_ixzfnbp wrote
I meant that more narrowly.
To my knowledge, the situation was that a massive amount of kurds helped cut down ISIS. Then, after the deed was done, they got abandoned.
I think the minimum here would have been to make sure the active fighters and their families are safe. That doesn't neccessarily include an own country, even offering refuge would have been at least something.
The overall politics in that area regarding statehood of minorities are completely fucked up, it's far too complicated and nuanced for me to understand even half of it. So not commenting on that.
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