| Jumpin said: I’m actually sad for the YPG. The Kurds can’t get a break :( There’s a lot of bullshit that happened in that war. European volunteers that helped them deal with ISIS/Daesh, then having to flee to South America because Turkey and Western governments declared them terrorists. |
Yes, this is the first macroscopic proof of the really awful side effects of Putin's megalomania: he thinks (or maybe he thought, now he could have understood, but he's prisoner of his own actions) this war made him and Russia stronger, but actually it made them weaker, and while the West is suffering too, the global effect is of making Merdogan stronger and able to get away with bullying other countries and even attacking them as long as he keeps a profile low enough. And the even worse effect is that in the mid and long term China too will become stronger, and this is an even bigger problem than Turkey.
But for what a more long-sightedness of the West could have preventedd easier, be damned the day Turkey joined NATO. Since then the whole alliance has already been forced to accept unacceptable actions by Turkey many times: Northern Cyprus invasion and thwarting the legitimate right of Kurdistan to become a state are the most shameful ones, not to mention Merdogan's relentless attempts to destroy Atatürk's reforms.
