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…and we (USA) didn't give the Kurds their deserved autonomous nation as thanks for their help in Iraq to avoid pissing off the Turks.


Is the land yours to give?


Arguably, the northern parts of Iraq, where the Kurds live, was ours to partition after Saddam Hussein’s fall. But Turkey doesn’t want a Kurdish state on their border, and the US wants good graces with Turkey for their anti-Russian missile silos.




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