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Erdogan Called Trumps Bluff
October 13, 2019 at 7:18 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 70 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2019/10/13/erdogan-called-trumps-bluff/
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President Trump had been calling Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğans bluff for more than 2 years, and some senior administration officials thought Erdoğan would never actually go through with his long-threatened Syria invasion, Axios reports.
Trump would tell Erdoğan that if he wanted to invade Syria he would have to own whatever mess ensued
Erdoğan would have to take care of ISIS and manage international condemnation, trouble from Capitol Hill, and the quagmire with the Kurds. And when Trump put it in such stark terms to Erdoğan, the Turkish leader would demur. Until last Sunday, that is, when he told Trump he was moving ahead with the invasion of northern Syria.
This time, Erdoğan called Trumps bluff, having waited for international forces to wipe out the ISIS caliphate.
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applegrove
(118,778 posts)the Kurds. But he knew. He was just perceived as weak by Turkey. And he knew.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)It was a two-year-long surrender. Erdogan gets everything he wants, and so does Putin.
GeorgeGist
(25,323 posts)to have called Erdoğan bluff.
Somebody must have done it for him.
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