I mean, yeah - they also started bombing the shit out of the Kurds. But, you know, when you're given carte blanche to settle old scores without any interference from the global order, strike while the iron is hot, right?
Tomorrow: "When you think about it, Cyprus* wasn't around at D-Day either! All those parachuters, shooting Germans, not one shooter from Cyprus. Not one. Or Lebanon, where they said 'No' to Trump Tower Beirut, no help from the Lebani-, those people."
*a former territory of the United Kingdom that gained independence in 1960
I'm still remarkably angry. Suck it, outrage fatigue. It started on 9/26 with the WSJ report about eight requests to Zelensky. Things were cooling off for me until the Syria withdrawal announcement. I'm staunchly anti-war, but this was like 200 people tactically positioned to deter Erdogan's bullshit. Erdogan deserves far worse than the sanctions being proposed by Graham and Van Hollen today.