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The USA should leave Syria, as the USA was not formally invited into the country.
Open the warehouses of NATO, and give a NATO member full access to ALL the arms NATO Turkey needs for this campaign.
The pattern since the 1980's was simple. The PKK carried out terrorism in Turkey and the Turkish state at first carried out ops against the PKK in Turkey.
Since the destabilisation and invasion of Iraq and the creation of an illegal Kurdish statelet BY THE USA, Turkey has conducted limited military campaigns with airstrikes into Iraq.
With the creation of an illegal Kurdish statelet in Syria and the destabilisation of Syria with the main guidance of THE USA, Turkey has conducted limited military campaigns against the Kurds, whilst pretending to fight ISIS.
The situation is now critical with the creation of 3 viable Kurdish entity enclave statelets in SYRIA AND IRAQ.
Turkey can no longer pretend and carry out limited airstrikes........TURKEY HAS TO GO FULL THROTTLE, AND WIPE OUT THE ILLEGAL KURDISH ENTITIES BEFORE THEY TURN ON TURKEY PROPER, .....a nation where 20 million Kurds live right next to the 3 illegal Kurdish enclaves the USA has created and ARMED.
Its called national salvation and survival....and not existential imaginary threats cooked up by armchair generals.
I had suggested that Turkey should conduct such an operation with Iran, Iraq and Syria......and not alone, but Deonme Erdogan Abe has not heeded this advice.
As the map shows these other countries are as much affected as Turkey, by the creation of the illegal Kurdish entity by the USA.
Turkey should test the sincerity of the USA WITH SYRIA, IRAQ AND IRAN.
The USA will not have to thank Turkey for supporting ISIS....AND 'al-CIA-duh' SINCE 2011 in Syria....
Just get out of the way.
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Turkey Vows to Expand Syria Offensive East to Iraq Border
One week into the Turkish invasion of Syria’s Afrin District, the war against the Kurdish YPG looks to be expanding precipitously, with President Erdogan first announcing he’d extend the war to Manbij, and now all the way east to the Iraqi border.
This suggests Turkey’s war against Syria’s Kurds is likely to span the whole of YPG territory, which at present is about 25% of all of Syria. That war will include Turkey’s allies, the Free Syrian Army (FSA), which Turkey tends to install as de facto rulers in places they’ve seized.
More importantly, this escalation all but ensures Turkey will be in an military confrontation with the US, as all of America’s troops deployed in Syria are in YPG territory, embedded with the Kurds, who they consider allies.
The US has no presence in Afrin, which has forestalled this confrontation, but efforts to try to prevent direct clashes will have to be massive if Turkey indeed intends to invade all of YPG’s territory, and the Pentagon’s intentions not to withdraw from Syria mean some sort of substantial deal would have to be made on accommodating the permanent US occupation force.
This is, however, in keeping with long-standing Turkish positions on their war in Syria, that they could not allow the YPG to retain territory on their border. Hopes this would be limited to Afrin were never reasonable, and Turkey was virtually certain to be escalating the war, as it now has.
