Wednesday, 30 October 2019
Monday, 14 October 2019
Turkey’s Golan Heights. By Tim Brian Tufuga
Turkey’s Golan Heights
The recent dynamic contextual shift in the Northern Syrian conflict between the invading Turkish Army and the withdrawal of American military presence in the region has shifted the strategic relevance of Operation Inherent Resolve dramatically resulting in the inadvertent freeing of captured ISIS fighters and their families in the thousands and the persecution and annihilation of the Kurdish SDF elements that aided the Operation Inherent Resolve anti-Daesh strategic mission.
Paradoxically, the Assad regime Syrian Army have now been mobilised into the region and have become the Defenders of depleted and outflanked Kurdish SDF resistance, within the Rojava region, and in doing so, enjoining a former enemy in the Sunni Kurds, within the SDF, as an unlikely ally, between a Shia Assad Regime with a predominantly Sunni Kurdish SDF, in repelling the Turkish invasion force, into Syrian territory. In doing so, the presumption of a Islamic sectarian based conflict would be morphed into a conflict based purely on geo-strategic dominion based on racism and of National sovereignty significance. Furthermore, the Kurdish Nationalism question is further displaced with Syrian sovereignty defence. A Turkish Buffer zone, likened to the Israeli acquired Golan Heights in the Southern Syrian region, will not be tolerated by the Assad regime as well as the Kurdish enclaves, whose ancient geo-political designs is in pursuit of their Nationalistic strategic objectives. Again, this matter is being displaced by both the Turkish and Syrian sovereign border fist to cuff and a quasi Golan Heights designs by the Turkish President.
As for the American strategic objective for disengaging the impending Turkish military invasion with the Turkish Operation Peace Spring
" After all, in the United States' eyes, the SDF's strategic value is significantly smaller than that of Turkey's. For
Washington, the SDF has proved useful as a bulwark against the Islamic State,
with some added benefit of extending U.S. influence in Syria. On the other
hand, despite its rocky relationship with the United States, Turkey remains a
significant economic power, has the second-largest military in NATO and
occupies a critical geographic position on Russia's southern flank ." Stratfor
Therefore, it seems that the Americans, like NATO, and Russia, will allow for the gambit and middle game to play out, whilst issuing economic sanction slap on the wrist against a very powerful NATO ally, in Turkey.
Timoteo Tufuga
Source:
https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/1988372/statement-by-secretary-of-defense-dr-mark-t-esper-regarding-turkey-syria-border/fbclid/IwAR3uGQM9iOMki2lMKBD5Fgul5dK1nTF_GkBiVw9uXLbcq0mibzaW43Xf2oU/#.XaT-1OFeRFc.facebook
The recent dynamic contextual shift in the Northern Syrian conflict between the invading Turkish Army and the withdrawal of American military presence in the region has shifted the strategic relevance of Operation Inherent Resolve dramatically resulting in the inadvertent freeing of captured ISIS fighters and their families in the thousands and the persecution and annihilation of the Kurdish SDF elements that aided the Operation Inherent Resolve anti-Daesh strategic mission.
Paradoxically, the Assad regime Syrian Army have now been mobilised into the region and have become the Defenders of depleted and outflanked Kurdish SDF resistance, within the Rojava region, and in doing so, enjoining a former enemy in the Sunni Kurds, within the SDF, as an unlikely ally, between a Shia Assad Regime with a predominantly Sunni Kurdish SDF, in repelling the Turkish invasion force, into Syrian territory. In doing so, the presumption of a Islamic sectarian based conflict would be morphed into a conflict based purely on geo-strategic dominion based on racism and of National sovereignty significance. Furthermore, the Kurdish Nationalism question is further displaced with Syrian sovereignty defence. A Turkish Buffer zone, likened to the Israeli acquired Golan Heights in the Southern Syrian region, will not be tolerated by the Assad regime as well as the Kurdish enclaves, whose ancient geo-political designs is in pursuit of their Nationalistic strategic objectives. Again, this matter is being displaced by both the Turkish and Syrian sovereign border fist to cuff and a quasi Golan Heights designs by the Turkish President.
As for the American strategic objective for disengaging the impending Turkish military invasion with the Turkish Operation Peace Spring
" After all, in the United States' eyes, the SDF's strategic value is significantly smaller than that of Turkey's. For
Washington, the SDF has proved useful as a bulwark against the Islamic State,
with some added benefit of extending U.S. influence in Syria. On the other
hand, despite its rocky relationship with the United States, Turkey remains a
significant economic power, has the second-largest military in NATO and
occupies a critical geographic position on Russia's southern flank ." Stratfor
Therefore, it seems that the Americans, like NATO, and Russia, will allow for the gambit and middle game to play out, whilst issuing economic sanction slap on the wrist against a very powerful NATO ally, in Turkey.
Timoteo Tufuga
Source:
https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/1988372/statement-by-secretary-of-defense-dr-mark-t-esper-regarding-turkey-syria-border/fbclid/IwAR3uGQM9iOMki2lMKBD5Fgul5dK1nTF_GkBiVw9uXLbcq0mibzaW43Xf2oU/#.XaT-1OFeRFc.facebook
Wednesday, 9 October 2019
The Enemy of my Enemy makes you my friend .By Tim Tufuga
(Hurriyet Daily News)It appears to be the case for the Islamic State that the enemy of my enemy makes you my friend,
which seems to bode well in this instance.
The Islamic State unleashes their revenge against the Syrian Democratic Front (SDF), who ousted and destroyed IS, with the assistance of the Americans, during Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR), the IS are about to be avenged with the assistance of the Turkish military with the
annihilation of the SDF. This time, in this three pronged conflict, the SDF are drawn into the same side with the Syrian Army, as the enemy according to NATO through its member nation Turkey.
It appears that NATO needs to seriously revise their membership and objective when it comes to the Middle East.
The IS had long sought logistical supplies and material support from the Turkish border to the North of the former IS Caliphate, now, it appears that the Turkish military could not resist the temptation to sweep South and to invade the Kurdish enclaves within the Rojava Region of
Northern Syria. A temptation too difficult to resist by Turkey as Operation Peace Spring is launched today.
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Timoteo Tufuga
Source:
1. https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/syria-us-will-step-aside-turkeys-push-against-sdf-kur
dish-militias-ypg-pkk?fbclid=IwAR1QIWHotlJuLhvsg5DaXvf71AquXwYiApoOTj2obgt2yH
ZnZ369DgAAJTs
2. https://www.news.com.au/world/middle-east/turkey-launches-operation-peace-spring-milit
ary-offensive-on-syria/news-story/ae521cf9acc1e062b9aa3e8cdf79e57e
3. http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-troops-syrian-national-army-begin-operation-pe
ace-spring-in-northern-syria-erdogan-147320
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