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Under withering criticism from all sides of the U.S. political elite, including politicians of the party he commandeered, the Republican Party, U.S. president Donald J. "Jackass" Trump sent two of his top lackeys, vice president Michael "Holier Than Thou" Pence and Secretary of State Michael "Brought To You By The Koch Brothers" Pence, to Turkey to try to wheedle Turkish autocrao Recep Tayyip Erdogan into dialing back his military attack on the Kurds in Syria which Trump gave the green light to just days earlier.
The fact that Erdogan had enough leverage to force the U.S. to send two top level officials in person to plead with him is a symptom of the depreciation of U.S. sway under the mismanagement of the inept and blustering and totally unqualified Trump.
The dynamic duo managed to finagle a "ceasefire" (misrepresented as a truce) which Trump hailed as the Greatest Deal. Of course, Trump hails everything involving himself as the "greatest," "tremendous," etc. etc.
Under the five day "ceasefire" deal Erdogan expects the Kurds to completely clear out of the region of Syria bordering Turkey- or else. In other words, the Kurds are expected to ethnically cleanse themselves. Erdogan calls the Kurdish-majority areas bordering Turkey "a terrorist corridor." if they fail to do so, the violence resumes.
Although the violence hasn't actually ceased, but merely diminished. The Turkish military and the puppet militias of Islamofascist cutthroats accompanying the Turkish invasion are still bombing and shelling and mortaring. More civilians and Kurdish fighters have been killed.
An estimated 100,000 to 200,000 people have been driven from their homes by the Turkish attack.
Erdogan's stated plan, after all Kurds have been eliminated from the region, is to repopulate it with refugees from Syrian cities who fled previously into Turkey. As the area in question is farmland, apparently these city folk will quickly have to learn how to subsist as farmers.
While his V.I.P. errand boys were in Ankara jawboning Erdogan, Trump undercut them with more threats to devastate the Turkish economy, and sent Erdogan an insulting letter of juvenile insults, which, it is reported, Erdogan filed in the circular file. (That means he threw it in the trash.)
The emptiness of Trump's bluster have been thoroughly exposed by the effeteness of actual U.S. actions.
Over the years, Trump has branded himself (with the invaluable assistance of U.S. corporate media and book publishers) as a master negotiator. ("The Art of the Deal" was one of the self-serving books he paid someone to write while pretending he wrote it.) This master negotiator apparently doesn't realize that he was revealing himself to the world as a hollow bluffer.
Not a good thing when dealing with foreign heads of state.
The fact that Erdogan had enough leverage to force the U.S. to send two top level officials in person to plead with him is a symptom of the depreciation of U.S. sway under the mismanagement of the inept and blustering and totally unqualified Trump.
The dynamic duo managed to finagle a "ceasefire" (misrepresented as a truce) which Trump hailed as the Greatest Deal. Of course, Trump hails everything involving himself as the "greatest," "tremendous," etc. etc.
Under the five day "ceasefire" deal Erdogan expects the Kurds to completely clear out of the region of Syria bordering Turkey- or else. In other words, the Kurds are expected to ethnically cleanse themselves. Erdogan calls the Kurdish-majority areas bordering Turkey "a terrorist corridor." if they fail to do so, the violence resumes.
Although the violence hasn't actually ceased, but merely diminished. The Turkish military and the puppet militias of Islamofascist cutthroats accompanying the Turkish invasion are still bombing and shelling and mortaring. More civilians and Kurdish fighters have been killed.
An estimated 100,000 to 200,000 people have been driven from their homes by the Turkish attack.
Erdogan's stated plan, after all Kurds have been eliminated from the region, is to repopulate it with refugees from Syrian cities who fled previously into Turkey. As the area in question is farmland, apparently these city folk will quickly have to learn how to subsist as farmers.
While his V.I.P. errand boys were in Ankara jawboning Erdogan, Trump undercut them with more threats to devastate the Turkish economy, and sent Erdogan an insulting letter of juvenile insults, which, it is reported, Erdogan filed in the circular file. (That means he threw it in the trash.)
The emptiness of Trump's bluster have been thoroughly exposed by the effeteness of actual U.S. actions.
Over the years, Trump has branded himself (with the invaluable assistance of U.S. corporate media and book publishers) as a master negotiator. ("The Art of the Deal" was one of the self-serving books he paid someone to write while pretending he wrote it.) This master negotiator apparently doesn't realize that he was revealing himself to the world as a hollow bluffer.
Not a good thing when dealing with foreign heads of state.
In his imagination, he's The Greatest President Ever.
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