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Turkey escalates war on Kurds, ready to launch aggressive ground assault amid warnings by Russia and West

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Syrian Kurdish fighters have been fighting against the Islamic State for years, and have managed to create “a semi-autonomous region in Northern Syria.” After Kurdish fighters “consolidated control over territory captured from the Islamic State in northern Syria, Turkey and Turkish-backed Syrian militias, including the Free Syrian Army (FSA), moved to recapture cities and expel the Kurds.” NBC published a report, “Turkey’s attack on Kurds in Syria betrays those doing the fighting against ISIS — and dying.” But such is the character of Islamic supremacist Turkey in its ruthless pursuit of regional and global influence; its agenda includes a harsh crackdown on the Kurds. Turkey continues to escalate and threaten Kurdish-held areas inside Syria.

Recall that in 2019, Trump threatened to sanction Turkey if its military attacked U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in Syria. Now comes news of a renewed Turkish offensive. Erdogan stated:

God willing, we will root out all of them as soon as possible, together with our tanks, our soldiers.

While the Kurdish militia has fought hard to regain territory from the Islamic State, it now faces a full scale ground assault by Turkey. Turkey has already hit “471 targets in Syria and Iraq since the weekend”, followed since then by aircraft, drone and heavy artillery attacks on “civilian infrastructure including hospitals and a school among the targets hit.” Yet the world does nothing to stop Turkey, which has also been provoking war with Greece. That’s likely in part because Turkey is accelerating its influence in Europe via a deal to play middleman in supplying Russian oil to the globalist, green EU. The latter was too incompetent to scale back its dependence on Russian oil in past, as it pursued a green agenda.

While the world zeroes in on the Russian threat in Ukraine, it ignores the Turkish war against the Kurds, and Turkey’s imminent threat of expansion. Turkey’s vision of Islamic world dominance isn’t a discussion in Western media, since any discourse about Islam has been shut down via the “Islamophobia” battering ram. Meanwhile, Turkey sees nothing in the Taliban that contradicts its own beliefs.

The implications of Turkish aggression are far-reaching, and could have immense impact upon Western interests. Back in March, Biden said “he’d fight World War III for NATO, but not for Ukraine,” except that the Ukraine war is not extraneous to NATO, it’s intertwined. The Russian war with Ukraine has plummeted the EU into an energy crisis; NATO member Turkey holds a trump card and is using it.

With a mentally defunct US President, every foe of Western civilization has been unleashed, aided by Western globalist traitors in leadership positions, who have labored to destroy their countries from within.

“Turkey’s Erdogan: New ground offensive in Syria ‘when convenient,’” Al Jazeera, November 23, 2022:

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that his country’s air operations against the YPG militia in northern Syria were only the beginning and that it would launch a land operation there when convenient.

Erdogan said on Wednesday that Turkey was more determined than ever to secure its southern border with a “security corridor” while ensuring the territorial integrity of both Syria and Iraq, where it has been conducting operations against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), and groups it considers to be affiliated, such as the YPG, or People’s Protection Units.

“We are continuing the air operation and will come down hard on the terrorists from land at the most convenient time for us,” Erdogan said in a speech to his AK Party politicians in parliament.

“We have formed part of this corridor (and) will take care of it starting with places such as Tal Rifaat, Manbij and Ayn al-Arab (Kobane), which are the sources of trouble,” he added.

Erdogan had said on Tuesday that Turkey’s military operations in Syria would not be limited only to an air operation.

Turkey has previously mounted major military operations in Syria against the largely Kurdish YPG militia. The YPG shares close ideological links to the PKK, and Turkey has long labelled it the Syrian wing of the organisation.

While the PKK is a designated “terrorist” group in Turkey, the United States and the European Union and many other Western countries back the YPG-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the fight against ISIL (ISIS).

Ankara launched the air operations at the weekend, saying they were retaliation for an Istanbul bomb attack a week earlier that killed six people, and which authorities blamed on the PKK and the YPG. Nobody has claimed responsibility and the PKK and YPG have denied involvement….

Western countries, as well as Russia and Iran, have put pressure on Turkey to not attack.

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