Qatar, Turkey, and Pakistan appear to have successfully shaped some of Trump's decisions by exploiting his desire for quick deals and headline-grabbing victories that can be sold as political wins at home.
ترامب يتصرف وكأن الزمن يطارده
فهو يعلم أن هذه غالباً آخر مرة يصل فيها إلى الرئاسة، لذلك يبحث عن صفقات وانتصارات سريعة وكبيرة يمكنه التباهي بها أمام أنصاره. المشكلة أن السياسة الدولية لا تُدار دائماً بمنطق التاجر الذي يريد ربحاً فورياً، بل تحتاج أحياناً إلى صبر وحسابات طويلة المدى
في الماضي كان التنافس على من يتمسك بالمبادئ أكثر، أما اليوم فأصبح السباق على من يقدم التنازلات أكثر. تبدلت المعايير، فبعد أن كانت الثبات على الموقف مصدر قوة، صار التراجع عنه يسوق على أنه واقعية وحنكة سياسية.
إلى بعض المثقفين الكرد:
الشعوب الحية تتقدم بالنقد و المراجعة، أما المجتمعات التي تحارب النقاش الحر وتعتبر المساءلة خيانة، فإنها تبقى تدور في الحلقة نفسها من الفشل والتبرير و إعادة إنتاج الأخطاء.
مشكلة الكرد ليست في أنهم يفتقدون الشجاعة أو الذكاء، ولكن في العقل السياسي والاجتماعي الكردي الذي ما زال عاجزاً عن بناء مشروع جماعي يتفوق على الأنا الحزبية والشخصية.
حين تتحول السياسة إلى قاموس من المصطلحات المعقدة، والأهداف الخيالية، والخطابات الحماسية التي لا يفهمها حتى أصحابها أحياناً، فاعلم أن هناك فجوة كبيرة بين من يتحدث باسم الشعب وبين الشعب نفسه.
التاريخ علمنا أن الدول القوية لا تبنى على الولاء لجماعة أو حزب أو أيديولوجيا، بل على المواطنة والمؤسسات والتعددية واحترام الاختلاف.
و من لم يعلمه التاريخ يذهب إلى مزبلته.
كل كردي هو بيشمركة بالفطرة، لأن البيشمركة ليست مجرد قوة عسكرية أو تشكيل مسلح، بل هي روح التحدي والصمود والدفاع عن الأرض والكرامة والهوية. فعندما يتمسك الكردي بلغته وثقافته وحقوق شعبه، وعندما يرفض الظلم والاستسلام، فإنه يجسد معنى البيشمركة الحقيقي.
Tom Barrack is one of the most disastrous appointments of the admin.
Not sure exactly what good work he has done aside from enabling Turkey to work with ISIS in Syria…
Kurds of Rojhelat, don’t allow those who damaged Rojava policies for the past decade infiltrate Rojhelat policies.
Kurds and non-Kurds alike.
This goes for anti-Kurdish state far-leftests, activists who are just bored and use the Kurdish cause as a personal cause, journalists who just want access, those who pose as friends of Kurds but are just opportunists, those who want to bank on the Kurds, and those who hop from one Kurdish conflict to another.
We’ve seen them damage Kurdish policies and even at times influence the decision makers while sidelining Kurds who want to see Kurdistan’s success.
I can tell you right now Rojava would have been much more successful and much better in tact if they listened to these warnings. Instead they ignored it, surrounded themselves with bunch of far-left activists (and surprisingly still do) and opportunists then realized it was failing and tried to scramble a quick fix during the conflict. All self-inflicted failed decisions.
You can’t control every policy and decision of other states, but you can make rational decisions for the betterment of Rojhelat.
Don’t ignore this advice.
For the first time, the world-famous American channel Fox News displayed a map of “Greater Kurdistan,” that borders extend to the Mediterranean Sea, including Kirkuk and Afrin. The presenter stated that there are 30 million Kurds in Turkey alone.
Who are we? Let me tell you, America! We are the Kurds you betrayed in Rojava, north-east Syria, your anti-ISIS coalition partners. You sold us to Turkey in 2018, which annexed our Kurdish city of Afrin for allied jihadist factions. Then again in 2019, when our cities of Sere Kaniye and Gire Spi were handed over to Turkey for “security concerns,” even though not a single bullet from Rojava had been fired toward Turkey. And once more in 2026, when you handed us over to the former ISIS and al-Qaeda Syrian regime under the extreme hardliner al-Jolani. Thousands of us were massacred, ethnically cleansed, hunted street by street. Our women fighters were beheaded, their braids cut as war trophies by jihadist men.
We are the Kurds you betrayed in Basur, northern Iraq, who held a popular referendum in 2017, winning by 92% to separate from Iraq, a country that had ethnically cleansed and murdered us for years, only for our freedom to be denied. The Iraqi central government, encouraged by your condemnation of our referendum, attacked us and forcibly took over our Kurdish city of Kirkuk. Our peshmerga forces were run over by Iraqi tanks. Even now, Iraqi forces continue forcing Kurds out of their homes, as they have since the 1960s, because the city is oil-rich.
We are the same Kurds in northern Iraq whom you urged to stand up against the Saddam regime in 1991, only to abandon us when we rose up. We were massacred, and 2 million of us were displaced. You were shamed into Operation “Provide Comfort,” but only after thousands of us had already been killed following your call to rise.
We are the Kurds in Bakur, western Turkey whose lives and bodies have been sacrificed because of your economic and military ties to Turkey- your NATO allies who built a jihadi corridor and openly supports ISIS, al-Qaeda and al-Nusra.
We are the same Kurds in Rojhilat whom you betrayed during the 1975 Algiers Agreement. The Kurdish uprising collapsed overnight; tens of thousands were displaced. Iraqi forces launched severe reprisals—those who witnessed what had happened to our fellow Kurds in Basur and Rojava now refuse to be your foot soldiers.
We know who you are, America.
But it’s no wonder- despite this long and painful history of betrayal- that YOU still don’t know who we are. The oppressed carry the memory of every wound, but the oppressor forgets the scars it has inflicted.
The CIA may lack the credibility to get a full buy-in from Iranian Kurds to assist the US desperate need for an indigenous ground force in Iran. After three perceived Trump betrayals of Syrian Kurds and his close friendship with Erdogan, who hints at invading Iran if the Kurds engage, Trump will need to do more than simply offer his promise. Support for four connected autonomous Kurdish regions in Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria, that will become the anchors of secular democracy in the region, and with a firm US commitment to remain, will help guarantee a democratic future, the end of authoritarianism and the growing threat of a future of bloody sectarianism.
Important points from @MylesCaggins: If activating the Kurdish militias against the Iranian regime is the decision, the U.S. must not waiver under pressure from regional capitals nor abandon Kurdish partners.
“Temporary and transactional” will not suffice, this time.
To say I’m disappointed in the joint statement by leaders from France, Germany and the UK regarding Operation Epic Fury is an understatement.
It is so sad to see western democracies lose their passion for justice and a sense of right and wrong the further away from their shores the event occurs. Everyone in Europe is rightly impassioned about Russia invading Ukraine. But when it comes to the long suffering people of Iran, Europe has been pathetic.
To the leaders of France, Germany and the UK: the Iranian people are not wrong to demand the end to their oppression from the bloodthirsty ayatollah’s regime that has American and European blood on their hands. You collectively are the ones that are wrong by refusing to come to the Iranian people’s aid and adding insult to injury, you’re suggesting we should continue to negotiate with religious Nazis. It is pathetic. How far Western Europe has fallen.
To the Iranian people: President Trump heard your cries. Help has arrived in large measure.
To our European allies: you have gone pathetically soft and lost your zeal for confronting evil apparently unless it’s on your front porch.
So sad.
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We value our longstanding good cooperation with the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, I told @IKRPresident in the margins of MSC.
We welcome your efforts on de-escalation in Northeast Syria, dialogue and humanitarian passage.
So, #Turkey is trying to confuse everything to stop people from taking action. Why would Ocalan prefer to stay on Imrali? If this is the case, why has the #PKK made the opposite (release) its TOP mission. This organisation is screwing with people's minds as much as Turkey does.