Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi on October 22 [File: Maxim Shipenkov/Reuters]
Meduza.io: Losing to Putin How Turkish President Erdogan got what he wanted from Washington but settled for far less from Moscow
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ceded most of Kurdish autonomy in Syria to Vladimir Putin. The Turkish leader had claimed a region that stretches more than 250 miles along the Turkish-Syrian border and includes dozens of major Kurdish cities, which he planned to capture, in order to resettle more than 2 million Syrian refugees now living in Turkey. On October 22, Erdogan and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence focused on exactly this vast region. After talks with Putin in Sochi on October 22, however, Erdogan’s claims were reduced to a stretch of land just 60 miles wide that contains only the two Kurdish cities Turkish armed forces managed to seize since the start of the operation against the Kurds. The Syrian government and Russian military police will now control nearly all the remaining autonomous Kurdish territory. Meduza explains why Erdogan had to revise his agreement with the United States and abandon his military campaign.
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WNU Editor: Turkish President Erdogan has damaged his relations with the U.S. and Europe. He is facing Russia/Syria/Iran alone, and knows that he is not positioned to directly confront these Russian backed Syrian forces, especially since since they were ready for a fight. An agreement and compromise was his only way to save face, and he took it. Upon hindsight he should have taken the original deal that President Trump offered. He would have gotten what he wanted, and was positioned to get more in the future. Now he is boxed in.
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Erdogan was trapped the day the US turned over Manbij, Kobani and other cross road towns to Russia and Assad. Turkey lost the ability to go east and west and would only be able to occupy pockets of territory.
Now Russia has leverage over Turkey with the Kurds.
Anyone doubt that after a short period the Kurds return to their homes?
Anyone doubt that Assad and Russia will build up forces to help the Kurds reclaim their lands?
Anyone doubt the Kurds will resume attacks inside Turkey after this Turkish attack?
Trump like all Americans cant state a strategic American interest in Syria. Russia can. Germany can. France can. Notice that German Chancellor Merkel is now floating the possibility of deploying combat troops to police a DMZ on the Turkish-Syrian border? Yeah where was that offer when Uncle Sam was doing the heavy lifting?
"An agreement and compromise was his only way to save face, and he took it." Yes, and Putin, being the shrewd diplomat that he is, knew it and so offered Erdogan a face saving way out, but, in fact, Trump set the stage for the Sochi meeting when he sent Pence to Ankara to negotiate the initial cease fire agreement. Together, Putin and Trump are creating the conditions for peace in the region. There's still a lot of hard work ahead, but this is the new wave of the future.
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Trumpy controls the Syrian oil fields ,I'll say no more.
Trump said he was going to wind down the Middle East wars when he ran for president.
Look at the bonuses. We do not have to hear libfucks carp about how much the wars cost us.
We do have to hear partisan liberals breathlessly and gleefully recount the number of American deaths daily or weekly on TV.
Libfucks never made a case for being Syria other than vaguely for R2P, which was ironic, because John Kerry and Nancy Pelosi famously swapped spit with Assad in 2007.
Libfucks made less of a case for being Syria than people made a case for the US presence being illegal.
Many of the libfucks who cried real tears about the American presence being illegal are crying crocodile tears that the US is getting out.
We once had allies. We were there for what reason? Who runs the region now? What of Kurds? Israel and also Saudi Arabia, who now wants nukes since Iran now all over Syria and a major threat. we protect the oil? ok. But we are told we have all we need here and enough to sell too, so why are we still there guarding the oil?
Your name calling an indication of CHUDiness...and yes, i need to call a name since that is all your mind can cope with
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The liberal CHUD not Lapides (or are they one and the same?) will answer
(1) what the coherent American foreign policy before Trump
(2) was it communicated to the American people and
(3) did they support it.
I remember Obama the Dubious for 3 things
1) Refusing to help the Kurds until the last minutes Kobane due to public opinion polls.
2) Worrying about sending non lethal aid
3) Running guns to Syria from Libya, a country he destroyed and used as his piggy bank for gun running.
"Nor not "not"
3) Running guns to Syria from Libya, a country he destroyed and used as his piggy bank for gun running.
Oh, I reeeeeeaaaally want hear the answer to that one.
LOL, your analysis is so immature at this stage.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line
For details on the gun smuggling operation Christ Stevens was running between Libyan stockpiles and the jihadists in Syria.
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