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"No friends but the mountains..."
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So what do you propose?
What country is going to just give up land for another culture?
Look at Israel/Palestine, because that has worked out soooo well.
The U.S. is fucked up, but you can't blame the U.S. for everyone else in the area shitting on the Kurds.
The point here isn't to blame the US for the overall Kurdish situation, only to point out yet another incident in a long list of incidents by many great powers wherein the Kurds have been screwed or their contributions undervalued.
The Kurds deserve better luck, honestly, especially given that much of their 20th and 21st century struggle has expressed high ideals of governance.
I agree with you that their plight has been exploited, certainly by the U.S., without really getting real, long term benefit for themselves.
No state wants to legitimize them because there will be an immediate influx and then they'll just legislate their independence (or fight for it), once they got big/established enough.
When I saw that we were arming the Kurds again to potentially fight Iran, I was wondering if we are not just creating another Al Qaeda scenario for ourselves. That and, I wondered if they would just start fighting Turkey instead
How many stateless groups are there outside of the Kurds and the Armenians?
I don't even know how to begin to resolve what the modern Middle East looks like. I would love to prevent the large groups from just destroying the small groups, but then I feel like haven't we fucked it up enough already, with our meddling?