This move is nothing short of dishonorable...
Further, it plays right into Putin's playbook... Turkish interests here have nothing to do with US interests.
Consider this; Turkey has banned the word Kurd, and any variants, from its language and jails anyone speaking the Kurdish language. That's solid modern thinking, right?
The Russians went it alone in Afghanistan, and were forced to withdraw. They are not going to make the same mistakes in this region again, but the motives are much the same as they were back then. Just playing with different officials in the countries... Money, arms, food, all the same collateral we use to influence and buy friends.
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