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Trump’s Worst Crime Must Not be Forgotten
It was the worst crime of Donald Trump’s years in the White House. In October 2019 he ordered US troops to stand aside, greenlighting Turkey’s invasion of...
Eighteen months earlier, Trump did nothing as the Turkish army occupied the Kurdish enclave of Afrin and replaced the population there with Syrian Arab jihadis.
- Patrick Cockburn
- CounterPunch
It is, unfortunately, unlikely that Trump will ever stand trial but, if he does, then his complicity in the ethnic cleansing of the Syrian Kurds should top the charge sheet.
This was an act of evil in itself and also the betrayal of an ally since American-backed Syrian Kurdish fighters had led the…