Something more about ISIS

[The Comrade]

it doesn't matter what they want if they aren't in a position to hold on to it.

[Saz]

[The Comrade]

which is why i was talking about a civil war. and let's not forget that the kurds are 20-25% of the population. that's quite a large enemy to fight and quite a large civilian population to genocide with impunity. i have little faith in the turk ability ability to fight an asymmetric war considering the last real war they haven't fought a real war and won in over a century where as the peshmerga have been fighting in iraq for a decade now. plus they stand to lose a lot if they get in to war crimes territory over eastern turkey.

[Saz]

[The Comrade]

you do you know that iraqi kurds are bearing the brunt of ISIS, right? it's not like the entire PKK has just up and joined to fight them like they would in an independence struggle with turkey. and there are almost 20 million kurds in turkey. what you're describing would be hard to do against a population a quarter that size. it took the US almost five years to break the iraqi insurgency and their numbers are much smaller and a much smaller percentage of the population was helping them. now i don't know about you, but i think we're better than turkey. combine that with a civil war or some other kind of internal struggle, which is the context i brought this scenario up in, and the turks aren't just going to deport or kill 20 million people outright. it would be an incredibly messy fight that given the right circumstances, the turks could easily find themselves struggling to overcome.

[Saz]

[The Comrade]

if you want proof, look at syria. competent and relatively good sized armed forces. now you add in some defections brought on by a civil war, some asymmetric warfare, and foreign fighters, and you have three years of absolute stalemate. if you honestly think the turks are more brutal than assad you're pretty delusional.

just looked at the capabilities of the turkish and syrian armed forces and they're pretty evenly matched.

[The Comrade]

[Saz]

[Saz]