Monday, 9 March 2026

Kurds Not Going To Be Fooled Again

America's record of Regime Change in the Middle East is not great, Iraq, Libya and  Syria are all basketcases while Afghanistan was an even bigger mess. After years of US and civilian deaths, the US accomplished nothing besides death and destruction since the Taliban is back in charge and even more with even more power than when the US invaded and Iran will be no different.
Britain and everyone else is right in staying well away from the latest invasion because once Trump realises that bombing a regime will not change it and the American economy is tanking even more , he will falsely shout WINNER and run away to leave the smoking remains of Iran to whoever is stupid enough to join Team Trump.
With no American ground forces, the US have been encouraging the Kurds to attack Iran and held talks with Iraqi Kurdish leaders but they were rightly wary after three times becomign the 'boots on the ground' for America, only to be left high and dry by Washington once they have finished.
In 1975 they were abandoned  to their fate against the Iraqi government and again in 1991 when both times they encouraged Iraqi Kurds to rise up against Saddam Hussein and saw Iraqi helicopter gunships slaughter them in their thousands.
In 2017 the US dismissed a Kurdish independence referendum for the region telling the Kurds to remain integrated within Iraq and in 2019,  Washington asked  Iranian Kurds to take up arms in Syria against ISIS only to see once they vanquished the armed group after years of fighting and helped overthrow Bashar al-Assad, the Trump administration backed Syria’s new central government in Damascus and ended support for the Kurds and killed their call for Kurdish autonomy.
Turkey have been fighting the Kurds for years and balked at an armed Kurdistan army and said they would aid Iran in fighting them so the Kurds said they would do America's fighting yet again if Washington guaranteed arms, air cover and backing in their fight for autonomy else it would be a suicide mission against a fierce Iranian, and Turkish,  military response and suddenly Trump was not so keen and went from saying: 'I think it's wonderful that they want to do that, I'd be all for it' to “I don’t want the Kurds to go into Iran, I’ve told them I don’t want them to go in'.
With no plan except to bomb Iran and no thought of what comes after and with the Iranian Regime just needing to remain in power to claim their own win, you can see the end being Trump reliving the 'Mission Accomplished' debacle of George W Bush and running away with nothing but dead American Coffins, his economy sinking and an Iran who now more than ever deciding that a Nuclear Weapon is very much on their to do list.