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Saturday, November 25, 2017

The Kurds are betrays by America



Backstabbing Our "Allies"
It's as old as the American Republic
  • I saw this coming and Blogged about it years ago. Yes blame is there for Trump. But no matter who won the election the Kurds were destined to be royally butt-fucked by the U.S.  It is an old story.


(Bloomberg)  -  President Donald Trump told Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that the U.S. would stop arming Kurdish fighters in Syria, Turkey’s foreign minister said Friday, ending a policy that had inflamed tensions between the two nations.

Trump and Erdogan spoke by telephone following a summit on Syria earlier this week in Sochi, Russia, between Erdogan, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. 

The gathering focused on discussions for a Syria peace settlement. Putin’s plan, which largely excludes the U.S., got a boost on Friday when Syria’s opposition agreed to form a single bloc to negotiate with President Bashar al-Assad.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in a press conference that Trump said the U.S. would no longer supply weapons to the Kurdish group, known as the YPG. Cavusoglu said that Trump called the arming of the YPG ridiculous. 

A White House description of the call was less specific, saying only that Trump informed Erdogan of “pending adjustments to the military support provided to our partners on the ground in Syria.”

The White House described the change as “consistent with our previous policy,” and said it reflects the new phase of the battle after the capital of the Islamic State’s self-described caliphate fell to U.S.-backed forces. “The battle of Raqqa is complete and we are progressing into a stabilization phase to ensure that ISIS cannot return,” it said in an e-mailed summary of the phone call.

Erdogan and Trump also discussed the purchase of military equipment from the U.S. by Turkey, according to the White House.

The Kurds received U.S. backing as the most effective local proxies against Islamic State in Syria.

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Backstabbing at the Shores of Tripoli
Painting above is of Marine Corps Lt. Presley O'Bannon in battle at Derna, in modern-day Libya, 1805.
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To the shores of Tripoli goes the song.  The war, defeating the pirates, the song and the role of the Marines is all part of the great American myth.  And myth it is. This was the first (but not the last time) that the U.S. betrayed an ally.
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The U.S. recruited Hamet Karamanli and his supporters promising to restore him as leader of Tripoli.  But Thomas Jefferson abandoned our allies in his attempt to end the war. General William Eaton believed the honor of the United States had been compromised.

Apache Scouts Betrayed
The U.S. Army Apache Scouts who helped defeat Geronimo were betrayed. Following the surrender negotiations, the Army disarmed the Apache scouts and imprisoned them with Geronimo’s people as prisoners of war.

Battle of Manila (1899)
Filipino soldiers dead in a trench killed by their American "allies".  The people of the Philippines were under the strange impression they were the allies of the Americans who were there to "liberate" them.  They were wrong.
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Polish War Cemetery At Monte Cassino
An entire Polish Army Corps fought side-by-side with the allies in Italy.  They were betrayed by their "friends". Over 200,000 troops of the Polish Armed Forces in the West were fighting at the side of the Allies in Italy, the Middle East and France.

.FDR and Churchill had no problem stabbing Poland in the back and giving away 50% of their territory to the Soviet Union.
The CIA Bay of Pigs Disaster
The U.S. sent in the Cuban freedom fighters and then left there to die. But that is what friends are for . . . . 


The Fall of Saigon
The U.S. leaves our allies in South Vietnam to die.

Now the Kurds are Betrayed
Armed by the U.S. the Kurds are the current group, but they will not be the last, to be betrayed by an ungrateful American Government.

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