• @phoneymouse
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    411 day ago

    Watch the US abandon them too, after basically using them to squash ISIS. A concern though, is Turkey won’t want to hold territory, so it’ll end up creating the same power vacuum that spawned ISIS after it drives the Kurds out. A better solution would be for the US to just broker a deal between all parties.

    • @Maggoty
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      615 hours ago

      Turkey would love to expand their borders. They already exist on a war footing because they insist on treating domestic Kurds like Native Americans were treated and sending military expeditions into northern Iraq and Syria. The only difference would be staying there.

    • @BlesthThySoul@lemy.lol
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      317 hours ago

      Turkey is performing this act for the sake of the historical three cities which are present in Syria to be included in their current map.

      Erdogan himself gave such a blaoted nationalistic speech after the fall of Assad.

    • guy
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      91 day ago

      You sure about them not wanting to hold territory?
      I can imagine the Turks keeping the “safety zone”, not to annex as a part of Turkey, but keep subdued to make sure the Kurds don’t try to come back

      • CaptainBasculin
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        51 day ago

        Turkey wants HTS to take full control of the Syria land so they don’t have to deal with PKK’s sidearm right next to their borders in the first place. This whole operation is made for that.

    • @MrFappy
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      41 day ago

      That happened already and it fell apart yesterday.

      • @phoneymouse
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        117 hours ago

        Well, more of a long term solution is needed than a temporary cease fire.