Donald Trump became a Turk this morning

[Vojnik]

Fuck man. When is the bloodshed going to end in this piece of shit middle east.

[Kamal900]

Fuck man. When is the bloodshed going to end in this piece of shit middle east.

For as long as the US and it's allies in the middle east like Saudi Arabia and in the western world like Canada, major European countries(UK, France, Germany and so on) keep on meddling with middle eastern affairs and so on.

[Epirus DNA]

Let's be honest-- the USA is playing both sides.

The USA gives Turkey the Kurds on a plate while making Greece its new foothold in Europe.

The United States and Greece have signed an updated defense-cooperation pact, a move Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said was not aimed against any one nation in the region, including Turkey.

Nevertheless, in remarks made during his visit to Athens on October 5. Pompeo cited "malign" Russian influence on NATO ally Greece and its neighbors and criticized Iran and China.

“We are opening a new chapter in our history,” the prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, told Pompeo. “Our relationship has truly never been as strong as today.”

No US secretary of state has spent as much time in Greece in years.

The trip partly reflects the cooling in ties with Ankara under the unpredictable stewardship of president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Talk of the US removing military installations from Turkey has been muted. Greek-US relations have warmed as tensions have risen in the eastern Mediterranean between Cyprus and Turkey over offshore gas rights.

But in substance, as much as feel, analysts say Pompeo’s tour also highlights the choice the Orthodox nation has made to align its interests with Washington at a time when Greece, Cyprus and Israel have also formed a tripartite energy alliance, to the delight of the Trump White House.

“The time when many Greeks wanted to minimise the US military footprint in their country is well and truly over,” said international relations professor Aristotle Tziampiris at the University of Piraeus. “What we are witnessing is a dramatic improvement in ties especially on the military, energy and political fronts. For Greek standards this is happening at the speed of light.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...d-defense-deal

https://www.rferl.org/a/pompeo-greec.../30201427.html

[sean]

He's been trying to do that for two years now, or longer. It's more like a tug of war by now, if he did the opposite, they would still bitch about meddling in others affairs, being responsible for innocent deaths, and wasting money on military instead of immigration reform.

The US troops in Syria were only a thin cordon between the Kurds and Turkey, they were not supposed to do anything but keep them from fragging each others.

I think it's better to let Erdogan and Assad work things out for themselves.