Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
January 25, 2018
Rape a few of these commie whores for me, Turks.
Trump singlehandedly ended the Syrian war by cutting funding to ISIS.
I don’t think he is especially excited about starting another war in Syria, otherwise why would he have bothered to end the last one?
I think he is obligated to say something about Turkey invading Syria, so he is just being like “ayo.”
Note how long it took him to say something – this started on Saturday, and Mattis already said he was aware of the operation (without making any particular value judgement).
President Trump urged Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday to scale back his country’s assault on Kurdish positions in Syria, signaling mounting American anxiety that Ankara’s latest military foray will jeopardize the U.S. campaign against the Islamic State and undermine hopes for peace talks aimed at ending the war in Syria.
In a call, Trump told Erdogan that the intensifying conflict in Kurdish-controlled areas of northern Syria “risks undercutting our shared goals in Syria,” according to a White House statement that described the two leaders’ conversation in pointed terms.
See, that’s obviously a bullshit statement.
Turkey’s goal in Syria is stopping Kurdish terrorists from having a base to plan attacks and conquests in their own country, and killing Kurds and destroying their bases furthers that particular goal.
Trump “urged Turkey to de-escalate, limit its military actions, and avoid civilian casualties and increases to displaced persons and refugees,” the statement said.
The U.S. leader also voiced concern, as tensions spike between the NATO allies, about “destructive and false rhetoric coming from Turkey,” the White House said.
The call took place less than a week after Turkey launched an offensive on Kurdish positions in Afrin, a Kurdish enclave along Syria’s border with Turkey. Ankara fears that Kurdish fighters in Syria with ties to the militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party in Turkey will form a terror threat along the border.
Just last week, Erdogan promised to “drown” Kurdish forces that the United States is training near Syria’s border with Turkey.
Yeah. Waiting days to give a vague piece of advice when someone is openly slaughtering your allies… doesn’t really speak to commitment.
Kurdish groups have strengthened their control of areas across Syria in recent years as they have taken up arms in Syria’s civil war and, in some areas, battled the Islamic State with U.S. backing. Now, as that campaign winds down, U.S. officials worry that the days-old Turkish offensive will lead to another uncontrollable surge of violence and complicate a settlement of the war.
On Wednesday, Turkey said that 287 Kurdish or Islamic State fighters had been killed, captured or had surrendered, according to a military statement carried by the semiofficial Anadolu news agency. Despite the Turkish claims, Islamic State fighters are not known to be in the areas Turkey is attacking. A monitoring group, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said that at least 32 civilians had been killed in the offensive — which Turkey has dubbed “Operation Olive Branch.”
At least two Turkish soldiers have been killed since Saturday. On Wednesday, rockets, apparently fired from Syria, struck the Turkish border town of Kilis, wounding at least eight people who were gathered in a mosque, according to press reports.
The operation has worsened U.S.-Turkish ties, which have been under growing strain in recent months over a number of issues separate from their disagreements about Syria.
So: I’m not going to say nothing is going to happen.
The US might well increase pressure.
Who knows.
But Trump is clearly not especially enthusiastic about this Syria thing, and allowing Turkey to neutralize the Kurds would really make the situation a whole lot simpler.
The Kurds are now Israel’s pet project – their great brown hope to get the war kick-started again. But the situation is such a mess and the battle lines so confusing to the average person that “we have to aid the Kurds against our ally Turkey” is not an argument that is really going to sway many Americans. So, theoretically, if Trump can just manage to drag his feet until Turkey finishes the job, then it’s no longer his problem. There aren’t any other terrorists for the CIA black money to flow to at this point.
Let’s just hope an American doesn’t die.