United States President Donald Trump says Washington had armed Iranian opposition groups and protesters during mass antigovernment demonstrations in December and January, in which thousands of people were killed during crackdowns by government forces.
Good? I’m confused, does anyone other than the most tankie of tankies dislike the Kurds?
It’s not even about liking them or not. I would like them to have autonomy, but they’d have to be kind of stupid to fall for US “friendship” again. They have been used as pawns when convenient, and then abandoned later.
No, not great. Destabilizing a region is not good for the folks who live there.
You’re right, much better that a stateless people that are constantly massacred just lie down and take it.
Given the track record of the impact this has had on the locals whenever the US has done this, however justified the dissidents’ cause, I completely agree with you. It has brought us such beauties as Suharto, Pinochet, and the silent holocaust. Glad we could find some common ground here.
Yes, giving arms to the Kurds, who have repeatedly provided armed forces to assist us in fighting ISIL and other military operations=Pinochet 🙄
Look, each time, in the past, arguments like this existed, and each time we sent arms, the region ended up in a fucked state. But let’s not learn from history.