Yesterday, Donald Trump’s Administration “negotiated” a 5 day ceasefire in northeastern part of Syria known as Rojava that, according to all knowledgable analysts, basically gives the authoritarian-Islamist government of Turkey everything it wants while throwing the Syrian Kurdish-Arab-Assyrian alliance to the wolves. A few hours later, Trump, who seems to increasingly be drifting off into delusions of grandeur, called this feckless act of bowing down to the authoritarian pseudo-sultan Erdogan and giving him everything an ethnic cleanser could wish for “a great day for civilisation”, and followed this up by removing the threat of U.S. sanctions against Turkey.
It should come as no surprise that Turkey’s authoritarian government isn’t taking delusional Donnie all that seriously anymore. Today, Turkey continues to bomb northeastern Syria from planes and with artillery. Meanwhile, after a mere week of invasion by Turkey and their Islamist Jihadist proxies, Amnesty International has stated that there is “damning evidence of war crimes” by Turkey and its proxies:
Syria: Damning evidence of war crimes and other violations by Turkish forces and their allies
18 October 2019, 00:01 UTC
Turkish military forces and a coalition of Turkey-backed Syrian armed groups have displayed a shameful disregard for civilian life, carrying out serious violations and war crimes, including summary killings and unlawful attacks that have killed and injured civilians, during the offensive into northeast Syria, said Amnesty International today.
The organization gathered witness testimony between 12 and 16 October from 17 people including medical and rescue workers, displaced civilians, journalists, local and international humanitarian workers, as well as analyzing and verifying video footage and reviewing medical reports and other documentation.
The information gathered provides damning evidence of indiscriminate attacks in residential areas, including attacks on a home, a bakery and a school, carried out by Turkey and allied Syrian armed groups. It also reveals gruesome details of a summary killing in cold blood of a prominent Syrian-Kurdish female politician, Hevrin Khalaf, by members of Ahrar Al-Sharqiya, part of the Syrian National Army, a coalition of Syrian armed groups equipped and supported by Turkey.
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To top it all off, evidence is now emerging that Turkey has been using internationally prohibited chemical weapons against civilians:
So, in addition to giving a green light for Turkey to invade northeastern Syria and slaughter civilians, the orange menace in the White House is enabling an authoritarian-Islamist regime in Turkey that commits war crimes, is guilty of ethnic cleansing, is using former ISIS and Al Qaeda fighters to slaughter Kurds and their allies, and is giving ISIS a new lease on life.
Way to go Donnie! Your “art of the deal” basically amounts to giving a mugger all your money and jewellery, the keys to your car and house, along with their location, then even stripping down to your underwear and handing over your clothes, knocking out any gold teeth that you may have and also handing them over, and then bragging to everyone how you made a “great deal”.