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Eight Times the U.S. Has Betrayed the Kurds
On Monday morning, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman asked why Donald Trump made this decision:
So did Trump just betray the Kurds because
(a) He has business interests in Turkey
(b) Erdogan, being a brutal autocrat, is his kind of guy
(c) His boss Vladimir Putin told him toRemarkable that all three stories are perfectly plausible.
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) October 7, 2019
What Krugman left out, however, is the most likely explanation: (d) Trump is president of the United States. Nothing in this world is certain except death, taxes, and America betraying the Kurds.
The U.S. has now betrayed the Kurds a minimum of eight times over the past 100 years. The reasons for this are straightforward.
