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Iraqi troops, supported by US Special Forces on the ground, are expected to begin the battle to liberate Mosul from Daesh this month, and Turkey seems to want be involved too. But the Iraqi government is not so enthusiastic about the uninvited presence of the Turks in the country and does not want Ankara to participate in the assault.
Journalist Alex Christoforou told Radio Sputnik's Brian Becker that Turkey's expansionist mindset could be one of the motives driving Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's decisions. But, first and foremost, Erdogan's actions are dictated not by Mosul's past as a part of the Ottoman empire but by Ankara's strong need to prevent the establishment of any kind of Kurdish state, he believes. "[Erdogan's] number-one priority right now is really beating back the Kurds," Christoforou said during the Loud & Clear broadcast. "Because we all know that a Kurdish state to the south of Turkey could really mean the fragmentation of the Turkish republic as we know it."
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https://sputniknews.com/world/201610141046315943-attack-on-mosul/
That would explain why so many will escape to end up in Syria as well armed fighters. So much for the separation of Turkey and the US.
The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming.
Oh wait, it is only a media release.
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Confirming much of what Vanessa details,
TheAntiMedia's Darius Shahtahmasebi explains what you aren't being told...
As hawkish as presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton may be, the fact the Obama administration is
pressing for direct war in Syria before she even has a chance to be elected raises serious questions about the urgency underpinning the U.S. establishment’s push to unseat Syrian president Bashar al-Assad from power.
Just this week, Russia
deployed its S-300 surface-to-air missiles to Syria’s western coast in a move to preemptively counter any threat from U.S.-coalition airstrikes. The move came shortly after a number of
reports surfaced in the corporate media claiming the Obama administration was mulling over attacking Syrian troops directly.
The U.S. coalition
targeted Syrian troops as recently as September of this year in an attack which,
according to Assadhimself, lasted for over an hour. At least 80 soldiers were killed while another 100 or so were injured. An
ISIS advance followed almost immediately.
No apologies or compensation were offered, and the U.S. barely seemed to flinch at the idea of 80 soldiers (who were battling ISIS militants) losing their lives as a result of their air strikes. The implication of this recent attack is that the U.S. will have no problem launching a similar offensive in the near future.
However, Russia has presented an issue for the sane members of the military-industrial complex because it has become increasingly clear the U.S. cannot intervene in Syria without dealing with Russia first. To date, the American government may have been playing
a game of chicken with Russia to see what it might take for them to abandon the Syrian regime. However, if anything, Russia’s
involvement in the Syrian conflict has only increased in recent years, and that doesn’t appear to be changing anytime soon.
In tandem with the deployment of the S-300 missiles, Russian General Igor Konashenkov made it clear in a
statement that “any missile or airstrikes on the territory controlled by the Syrian government will create a clear threat to Russian servicemen” and could be shot down by the S-300 defense system.
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