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dutch777

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5. This would have been good to have teed up months ago, not as an after thought. Turkey, Iraq and others....

Reply to Deminpenn (Reply #4)

Thu Mar 5, 2026, 10:07 AM

19 hrs ago

have serious issue with armed Kurds. Both have been trying to keep their restive Kurd minorities from breaking off a chunk of their country and inciting rebellion as they do so. I get why the Israeli's don't care, they just want to do everything possible to hurt Iran, damn the consequences. It is a bigger issue for us and the region and even NATO given Turkey is strategic to NATO's southern flank.

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