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    Nachdem Trump zunächst seine Unterstützung zum Ausdruck gebracht hatte, sagte er, er wolle nicht, dass die Kurden in den Iran-Krieg eintreten


    Nachdem Trump zunächst seine Unterstützung zum Ausdruck gebracht hatte, sagte er, er wolle nicht, dass die Kurden in den Iran-Krieg eintreten

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-initially-voicing-support-trump-says-he-doesnt-want-kurds-to-enter-iran-war/

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    1. 1-randomonium on

      (Submission Statement)

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      US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he didn’t want Kurdish fighters from Iraq to join the war against Iran, after previously expressing support for the idea.

      “I don’t want the Kurds to go into Iran… They’re willing to go in, but I’ve told them I don’t want them to go in… The war is complicated enough as it is… We don’t want to see the Kurds get hurt or killed,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, after attending the return of the bodies of the six American soldiers killed in the conflict with Iran.

      On Thursday, Trump had said he’d welcome Kurdish involvement, saying: “I think it’s wonderful that they want to do that, I’d be all for it.” He was also reported to have discussed the possibility with Kurdish leaders.

      It was not clear what brought about the change in the president’s position.

    2. 1-randomonium on

      My take:

      – Trump’s call for the Iranian people to take their country ‚back‘ from the IRGC isn’t grounded in reality because the IRGC is over 400,000 strong, people aren’t going to go out and protest while there are US-Israeli bombing raids going on and the only major opposition group that is armed is the Kurds.

      – According to journalists with sources on the ground the Kurds haven’t yet agreed to mount the kind of offensive against the IRGC that the Trump administration wants and may not agree to do so unless the US commits to boots on the ground to support them. This would be a good idea considering America’s history of using Kurdish assistance for regime change operations and then abandoning them when their immediate goals have been met. For now Trump just seems to have taken the route of claiming he never wanted the Kurds to join in to save face. They didn’t say no – He did.

    3. Cabbage_Vendor on

      Now he’s even speedrunning abandoning Kurdish allies. Like what do they think will happen if the regime manages to hang on and remembers that the Iranian Kurds were (perceived as) allies to the US/Israel?

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