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US Defies Turkey’s Demands, Won’t Withdraw From Manbij

Posted by M. C. on January 30, 2018

The US has mostly just ignored those warnings…Recip Erdogen has decided to use toothpicks to prop open Washington’s eyes.

This will last as long as it takes Erdogen to close a US base.  Then an “agreement” will be reached.

Erdogen will be the winner.  US freedom lovers, taxpayers and ISIS fighting Kurds will be the losers.

US Defies Turkey’s Demands, Won’t Withdraw From Manbij

Turkey’s demands that the US immediately and unconditionally withdraw from the Syrian city of Manbij have been rejected, with Central Command chief Gen. Joseph Votel saying that the US has no intention of withdrawing just because Turkey says to…

This has been a problem long coming, as Turkey has been complaining about US support for the Kurdish YPG for years, and has telegraphed that they’d eventually invade Syria to get them. The US has mostly just ignored those warnings…

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The US Provided Cover for the Saudi Starvation Strategy in Yemen

Posted by M. C. on April 10, 2017

Although the UN agencies have offered no public estimate of the number of Yemenis who have died of malnutrition-related conditions, it is likely that the figure is much higher than the estimate of 10,000 killed directly by the Saudi-coalition bombing. United Nations agencies have estimated that 462,000 Yemeni children under five years of age are already suffering severe acute malnutrition, putting them at serious risk of death from starvation and malnutrition-related disease. Read the rest of this entry »

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