Arming the Kurds… Again?

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Here they come to save the day. Yes, the Kurds, the Kurds. We are actively discussing from what I’m learning right now, we’re actively bombing positions near where the various different Kurd outposts are in order to, I guess, free up areas for them to try to take over Iran.

We are now actively discussing arming the Kurds. Arming the Kurds, are approximately 10 % of the population of Iran. Where can this go wrong? I mentioned this yesterday. What I’m gonna do today, what I’m gonna do today is I’m taking a deep breath today.

and I am gonna do more of them. We report you decide one of those days here at the Watchdog on Wall Street show in the sense that we are gonna provide a lot of history, a lot of background to what’s taking place and what could possibly happen. Again, why are we gonna do this? Because nobody else is going to. All right?

Nobody else is gonna actually do the homework and actually provide for you background. Okay, that’s again, they, the way the media works today, it’s gotta be in and out. It’s gotta be a quick hit and you gotta move on. People get bored. They’re gonna be checking their phone. Okay, I will never do that here. Again, that’s not who we are. I don’t care. you’re gonna have less viewers. I don’t give a crap. Anyway.

Let’s go back and let’s try to understand the Kurds. Their name comes up a lot. Yeah, who are the Kurds we’re talking about? Weren’t we allied with them in Syria? Weren’t we allied with them in Iraq? Let’s just put it this way.

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I don’t think that we have, quite frankly, don’t think that we’ve double crossed an ethnic group more than the Kurds. That’s people and I will go through it with you. Okay? We go back to 1920s and this is post World War I. We, at the time, Wilson was prioritizing

stability. We backed a 1923 treaty. Lazon which scrapped the 1920, no it a 1923 treaty of Lazon which scrapped the 1920 treaty of Savares which gave provisions for Kurdish autonomy and independence in former Ottoman Empire lands. The Kurds expected to be able to have self-determination. Instead,

instead and we have a great history. Let’s be honest people, okay? Again, at some point in time, it’s important that people look at the history of the United States, all the good stuff that we’ve done, but also the bad things we’ve done too and the consequences of those decisions. It’s important. We chopped up the world.

chopped up the world. And again, we weren’t even, it wasn’t even that much our fault. It was more of the Europeans deciding what was going to take place. And the Kurds were divided among Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and Iran. There was a column on this, the intercept several years ago. They were basically, they’re calling this the first betrayal of the Kurds by the United States. But the reality, mostly that was British and French decisions at the time.

Let’s go to the 1960s, the Iraq coup era. US armed Iraqi Kurds against the prime minister, his name was Abdel Al-Karim Kwasim. He was seen as too friendly with the Soviets. There was a 19, again, people, gonna like, you read this stuff.

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1963 US backed Bathist coup. That name ring a bell? Bathist? yeah! That’s Saddam. Yup, a young Saddam Hussein participated in that coup.

Again, we cut aid. We cut aid to the Kurds. And then we actually supplied napalm, which was used against him by the Baathists.

Ken, you don’t believe me? Look it up. You wanna say, we every, I’m just giving you things that have happened. Like I said, can digest them any way you want. Okay, 1972, 1975. Okay, this actually ended up, this whole thing I think ended up in the Pike Report, which was a big,

attack at the CIA and what they were doing anyway. This is Nixon and Kissinger, the US with Iran and Israel. Again, Iran buddies at that time, covertly armed and funded Mustafa Barzani’s Kurdish revolt in northern Iraq to weaken Ba’athist Iraq. Where we put them in and now we didn’t like them because they were cozying up.

with the Soviets. We wanted to tie down the Iraqi forces. Kurds were encouraged to keep fighting in 1975. Iran and Iraq then signed the Algiers agreement, which resolved a border dispute. All of a sudden, the United States and Iran, we immediately drew with all support of the Kurds and

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So she wrote, Iraq crushed the rebellion, killing thousands, displacing hundreds of thousands. Henry Kissinger’s reported response, covert action should not be confused with missionary work. Again, this was all put out in the 1975 Pike Committee report. Again, that report kind of highlighted all the times we stabbed people in the back.

This what it is. Anyway, 1980s. This is during the Reagan administration. We were leaning towards Iraq to counter Iran. Saddam carried out what was called the Unfal genocide against Iraqi Kurds, anywhere between 50 to 182,000 dead, including the 1988

Halajj Bija chemical attack that killed 5,000. The US, we had intelligence on chemical weapons, but we, yeah, we really know about that. We basically weakened sanctions on Iraq and downplayed the reports publicly. Again, only to later on come out and say, Sam Hussein used chemical weapons on his own people.

Yeah, anyway, just throwing it out there. Okay, then we go 1991, George H.W. Bush, post-Gulf War uprising. After defeating Iraq in the Gulf War, President Bush publicly urged Iraqis, including the Kurds and Shiites, again, Shia Muslims, ones that were fighting in Iran right now,

to take matters into their own hands.

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We heard so I’ve heard something similar recent. Have you? Yeah, heard that before. Where have I heard that recently in the news? Anyway, sorry. Try trying to try to not be sarcastic. Very difficult. Yeah, they want them to rise up against Saddam Kurds, rebels in the north and.

We just stood and watched as Saddam used helicopters and troops to crush them. We eventually put a no-fly zone later after a mass refugee crisis. Tens of thousands were killed. Hundreds of thousands fled to the mountains. Bush later said that no direct support was promised, but the Kurds felt that they were encouraged.

and then abandoned. 1990s, we’re on to Turkey. The United States protected Iraqi Kurds via no-fly zones. That was Operation Provide Comfort, but provided massive military aid to Turkey, which they used against its own Kurdish population. It was the PKK insurgency.

Turkey destroyed thousands of Kurdish villages and killed tens of thousands and we continued to sell arms to Turkey. obviously post 2003 Iraq war, Turkish incursions. Iraqi Kurds were key U.S. allies in the 2003 invasion and subsequent stability. Despite this,

We did not block we permitted we did not block major Turkish cross border operations and bombings into Iraqi Kurdistan targeting the PKK. 2017 this is Iraqi Kurds and Peshmerga. Excuse me Peshmerga were crucial US partners against ISIS holding Kirkuk after 2014. They held a 2017 independence referendum was 93 % yes. This was under.

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Trump, we opposed it as did Turkey and Iraq. When Iraqi forces with Iranian backed militias, seize disputed territories like oil rich Kirkuk, the US urged restraint and dialogue, but provided no protection. Kurds viewed this as another abandonment after heavy ISIS fighting losses. 2019, the Syria withdrawal. is Trump era as well.

Syrian Kurds were the US with our main ground partner against ISIS between 2014 2019. They suffered 11,000 deaths. We had six combat deaths. Trump’s October 2019 announcement after a call with Turkey’s Erdogan withdrew US troops from north east Syria green lighting Turkey’s Operation Peace Spring invasion. Kurds displaced hundreds killed many turned to Assad Russia for protection.

We called it ending endless wars and again some people called it a betrayal and you know, that’s a relationship with the Kurds. Now we’re calling upon them again to overthrow Iran. What could possibly…

Go wrong. What could possibly go wrong? What is Turkey’s reaction going to be to this?

I don’t know.

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I don’t know, but a lot of this sounds.

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It’s not just rhyme. It’s almost like word for word of things that we have suggested these people to do in the past. And I don’t know. I don’t think it’s a very good idea. You’re going to get anything that’s going to happen. There’s going to be a massive toll when it comes to this without a doubt. What is going to be left?

I don’t know, what are we gonna have to, we’re have to carve up this country again, like we’ve done in the past. All of these things are unknowns and quite frankly frightening if you ask me. Watchdog on wallstreet.com.