Is it over yet? Iraq War - I think not.

[Jan Klimkowski]

Just think, if they can break up Iraq and call the northern part say, Kurdishville or such, they can keep their troops there AND say that they left Iraq with a straight face. :elefant:

The Kurds are rather like the Ukrainians - seeking their own nation state in the middle of a geopolitical crossroads-cum-hellhole.

When Kurdish guerillas fight Saddam, western MSM calls them freedom fighters.

When a very similar bunch of Kurdish guerillas fight NATO member Turkey, they're terrorists.

However, turn south-east, and fight Iran, and they're freedom fighters again.

I wonder what the clinical rate of schizophrenia is amongst Kurds....

Of course, the Ukrainians, despite making some awful geopolitical choices - eg Ukrainian Nazi slaughter squad battalions and the woman & baby-murdering massacres conducted by the Ukrayins’ka Povstans’ka Armiya, or "UPA" - have at least ended up with a nation state. Of sorts.

On reflection, looking at the continued suffering of the Ukrainian people despite having their own nation state, perhaps the creation of a Kurdistan or client-state "Kurdishville", wouldn't help the Kurdish people as much as they hope....

Especially if "Kurdishville" turns into some oil-rich version of the CIA/Hallliburton state known as Kosovo, with its very own Camp Bondsteel.

Named, perhaps, Mordor....