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To be fair, abandoning our Kurdish allies (and before them, our Hmong allies) is an ongoing American theme. I had a good Kurdish friend who came over on a US c
by ethbr1 3y ago
To be fair, abandoning our Kurdish allies (and before them, our Hmong allies) is an ongoing American theme.
I had a good Kurdish friend who came over on a US carrier after we abandoned them after the Gulf War...
- euroderf 3y agoIsn't Kurdistan still currently the largest stateless state (so to speak) ?
- ethbr1 3y agoThat's probably a complicated slicing of "stateless state". Racial? Ethnic? Linguistic? Religious? I'm guessing it would be something approaching "associated peoples who are part of a state, but who have collectively demonstrated a desire for an independent state"? There are ~40M Kurds. Off the top of my head, Palestinians, Uyghurs, Basques, but I'm sure I'm missing a ton. There are 70M+ Tamils.