{"id":176867,"date":"2020-03-02T21:41:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T02:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/03\/02\/turkey-launches-offensive-to-protect-al-qaeda\/"},"modified":"2020-03-02T21:41:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T02:41:00","slug":"turkey-launches-offensive-to-protect-al-qaeda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/03\/02\/turkey-launches-offensive-to-protect-al-qaeda\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Launches Offensive to Protect al Qaeda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/3\/2\/21161293\/turkey-offensive-idlib-syria\">initiated major military operations (an invasion) of Idlib province in Syria<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey has a number of justifications, including concerns about an additional influx of refugees, but any any realistic assessment would strongly suggest that this is about installing client mini-states along the Turkish border as a part of Erdogan&#8217;s desire for greater sway in the area, along with his desire to enforce Sunni hegemony in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that the rebels are al Nusra\/al Qaeda in the Levant\/Jabhat Fatah al-Sham\/ Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, and as such are al Qaeda.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey is looking for Nato support, because \u2026\u2026\u2026 Everything is f%$#ed up and sh%$.<\/p>\n<p>In related news, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenddemocracy.press\/erdogan-is-using-refugees-and-immigrants-to-blackmail-eu-eu-is-letting-greece-face-alone-the-crisis\/\">Turkey is aggressively moving refugees to the the Greek border in an attempt to coerce the EU into supporting his adventure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This will not end well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey has initiated major military operations (an invasion) of Idlib province in Syria. Turkey has a number of justifications, including concerns about an additional influx of refugees, but any any realistic assessment would strongly suggest that this is about installing client mini-states along the Turkish border as a part of Erdogan&#8217;s desire for greater sway &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[489,588,378,697,696,373],"class_list":["post-176867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-civil-war","tag-fail","tag-middle-east","tag-near-east","tag-syria","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}