Thursday, September 28, 2017
Better chance
Looks like Kurdish independence, unlike CataLUnya independence, has a pretty good chance of succeeding. Why?
“Russia has become the No. 1 partner of Iraqi Kurdistan,” said Aydin Selcen, a former senior Turkish diplomat, pointing to lucrative deals between Iraqi Kurds and the Russian state-owned oil firm Rosneft. “Rosneft boss, Mr. Igor Sechin, is one of the closest allies to Putin and the (Iraqi Kurds)." Analysts said Thursday’s meeting, and the images of two leaders getting along, suit the current agendas of both men. "This is a pragmatic and transactional relationship which we see,” Ulgen said, “but with a political underpinning, where both leaders Putin and Erdogan are almost instrumentalizing this relationship, to demonstrate and to make a point to the West.”This is a difficult move for Erdogan. Turks and Kurds have been at war for 3000 years, and Erdogan has been using that war to divide his opposition. Turks and Slavs have been at war for 300 years. Breaking two long-standing habits is hard, but Erdogan seems to have realized that survival and prosperity are more important. Now that the world has returned to natural bipolarity, Russia is obviously Turkey's better partner. Russia is already connected to Kurdistan. Oddly enough, USA STRONG doesn't seem to be pushing very hard against Kurdish independence. We created Kurdistan in 1990 to help us turn the rest of Iraq into rubble, and we've been using the Kurds ever since. Logically we should continue to support their independence. We normally operate in direct opposition to logic and facts and loyalty. Normally we'd be bombing the Kurds down to bedrock right now. HOW DARE YOU ASSERT THE INDEPENDENCE WE GAVE YOU!!!!! I don't know why we're not behaving normally. Nevertheless, we haven't started bombing yet. 9/29 update: Okay, Now we're reverting to normal. We officially "do not recognize" the Kurdish independence vote. Bombing starts in 5 minutes.
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