The war with Iran is going well if you believe the words of Little Donny and there has been a bit of hinting going on that ground forces will be needed in the near future if we are to end this ill-conceived war is to end.
This is where the Israelis come in…..their air force has been softening up the western portions of Iran in advance of the possibilities of the Kurdish forces advance into the country.
To the rescue how?
The Kurds have been used in several of our conflicts in the Middle East…..Iraq and Syria readily come to mind….and now into Iran they may go.
Each time they have ‘come to the rescue’ they have been betrayed by the US and its allies…promises were not kept and the calls keep coming…..
With this conflict we are now in the midst of will the Kurds take it on the chin again?
The Trump administration has enlisted the support of Kurdish activists in Syria, Iraq, and Iran to join the U.S.-led war to unseat Iran’s clerical regime. CNN reports that the Central Intelligence Agency is already arming Iranian Kurds. CNN and other outlets also report that President Trump spoke with Kurdish leaders in Iraq on March 8, 2026, about having their forces join the fight.
Washington’s motives for this move are easy to discern. The Kurdish minority concentrated along Iran’s western border has long sought to break away from Tehran’s control. U.S. and Israeli leaders understand that such disruptive secessionist efforts could further damage the incumbent government’s already weakened position.
There is a major problem with that strategy, however. Secessionist-minded Iranian Kurds do not merely want to undermine their oppressors in Tehran; many of them want to join their equally restless ethnic brethren in Iraq, Syria, and Turkey to establish a new, independent Kurdish homeland. The incumbent governments in those volatile countries feud about a wide array of issues. One objective all these governments have in common, though, is a determination to prevent the emergence of an independent Kurdish nation state, since that development would threaten the internal unity – and perhaps the continued viability–of multiple neighbors.
Previous U.S. administrations have encouraged and even actively supported Kurdish clients when it advanced Washington’s short-term goals. Such initiatives invariably have been followed by cynical betrayals of those clients when the U.S. government concluded that support for parochial Kurdish objectives endangered higher priority U.S. regional objectives.
This cycle of support and betrayal has occurred repeatedly. Most recently, the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations used Syrian Kurds as armed proxies in a long campaign to seize oil-rich territory in northern Syria and help unseat Syria’s dictator, Bashar al-Assad. A small contingent of U.S. ground troops deployed in northern Syria aided that effort. The Kurdish fighters were remarkably successful despite strong opposition from both Assad and Turkey.
Knowing that betrayal is on the table why would the Kurds do our bidding?
My guess is money and inventory.
They have been fighting for a homeland for generations and have gotten no closer than when they started the movement…..then why continue to allow the betrayals?
Plus they can come to the rescue by invading and saving American lives in doing so plus would keep Donny’s hands clean…..at least for now……his disapproval rating cannot stand too many hits.
Will the Kurds forget past betrayals and play along?
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“lego ergo scribo”
Howdy Chuq!
The Kurds would be fools to accept any terms that the Trump admin would offer. We’ve betrayed them so many times before, and Trump lies so much. From what I understand, the Kurds turned us down flat on providing any aide in this illegal war. And, that the dynamic duo of Kushner and Witkoff had a deal with Iran — according to Oman there was a deal on the table — when they reported to Trump that further negotiations were pointless.
Trump has created a very unique situation where we are damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t. There is no returning to the way things were before the war began. Even if all hostilities stopped now, restarting the flow of oil and other raw materials will take weeks and months. There has already been and will continue to be significant damage being done to the world’s economy.
And, if Trump continues with his war, without ground troops, he is unlikely to achieve regime change or extract the uranium. Even with ground troops, there are no guarantees. Since the July bombing, the Iranians have been dispersing their material, so there is no guarantee that we’ll even be able to find it all.
The war only guaranteed that Iran would develop a nuclear weapon. The war demonstrates that the only way to ensure national sovereignty is to have a nuke. We can delay them, but we won’t be able to stop them. And, now we’ve given them a reason to use it once they get it.
Our Stupid Jenius. Great.
Huzzah!
Jack
Jack, your last paragraph is exactly right. What we’re doing right now is giving countries that don’t already have nuclear weapons the need to develop them or get them somehow as fast as possible because it’s the only guarantee that the US won’t invade them on a whim. North Korea is quite possibly a whole order of magnitude worse than Iran ever was at its worst, and we do nothing but bluster and bluff and huff and puff but essentially do nothing about them. Why? Because they have nuclear weapons and missiles to deliver them.
Without their nukes North Korea is no match for the South. The South has twice the population, who knows how much more wealth, better technology, better weapons, and more motivation. All the tanks that the North has is not so impressive. They have to keep them repaired and fueled.. That’s what they can’t do.
Why we didn’t take advantage of that before they developed nukes, I’ll never know.
The other problem with Iran is that they are very motivated to come after us for the injuries we’ve inflicted and not stop. If we were the Great Satan before, we’re the reachable Greater Satan now. This is such a fuck up just two keep two sade old men out of jail.
Jack
People do not remember the Iran-Iraq war of the 60s…..that should tell the US what we could be in for….the region is so fucked and Donny is an idiot. chuq