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“Our partner” is how Presided Trump refers to Turkey. “A hell of a leader” is what he calls President Erdogan.
“This is an amazing outcome,” extolled the president. He was praising, what, exactly?:
This is an outcome — regardless of how the press would like to damp it down, this was something that they’ve been trying to get for 10 years. You would have lost millions and millions of lives. They couldn’t get it without a little rough love, as I called it. I just put out — they needed a little bit of that at the beginning. And then everybody said, “Wow, this is tougher than we thought.” When those guns start shooting, they tend to do things.
Does President Trump know the Turks have one genocide under their belt?
Oh, I forgot. In the interest of pacifying its Turkish allies, American officialdom has generally refused to implicate the Ottomans in the mass murder of up to 1.5 million Armenians, 100 years ago.
Armenians who had survived the 1915 Turkish genocide; their children and grandchildren have tacitly supported the Assad regime, as against the Turks.
Turkey is an execrable force in the region.
The images are of Armenians beheaded and burnt alive by Turkish soldiers, circa 1915.