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This is a thread specifically for the war, not a general megathread (use the pinned /c/genzedong thread for that).
Please keep related news in this thread rather than making separate posts. Remember to include sources and avoid spreading rumours.
— 🇮🇱/🇹🇷/🇮🇷 NEW: Thousands of Kurdish fighters were trained inside Israel for a ground offensive into Iran
The Kurdish forces were supposed to enter the country after airstrikes opened a route through the Kurdistan region, coupled with widespread anti-regime protests.
Days after the campaign began, the White House realized that anti-regime protests never came, and ordered Israel to halt the Kurdish advance, partly also due to Turkish opposition. – Israeli Channel 13
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No, but you see, the smol bean Kurds NEED to work with Israel to destabilize the most significant anti-imperialist project on the region! Stop calling them zionist and imperialist puppets! Kurdistan will be a socialist anti-imperialist state that will free the Palestinians when it’s created, trust us! Stupid Tankies calling for the genocide of Kurds by pointing out how they’ve never once hurt imperialist interests in the last 25 years!
On a more serious note, I do think skepticism is warranted on this claim, it does come from Israel after all. Personally I do not think that the US and Israel stopped the Kurdish invasion force purely due to the lack of a coup. I think many Kurdish political factions in Iraq and Iran actively refused to start a war with Iran, at least to a scale that made any invasion logistically impossible.
I say this because of statements from early on in the war made by the different Kurdish factions essentially saying they didn’t want anything to do with the war. Was thus Kurds finally wising up to their imperialist puppetry, or was it simply the undeniable reality if Iranian military dominance allowing for a sober diagnostic of their position, I can’t say for sure. However, I do want to say that I think it would be incorrect to state that the majority of Kurdish factions didn’t actively choose to avoid attacking Iran.
Basically, although I wouldn’t go so far as to give them “credit” for not falling on the sword again. I would say that the Kurdish leadership here showed a level of autonomy against imperialists interests that they really haven’t before in my opinion.
Which honestly kind of makes them look worse in retrospect, as it proves they are capable of making these kinds of decisions and evaluating their situation properly, yet choose to fall in line with imperialists out of vulgar self interest.
It makes me think that any socialist asthetics that this leadership dresses themselves is covering for a project entirely hollowed out of historical socialist principles. It’s the fate of the MEK, the vestiges of Marxism have all but left leaving only a tool for western domination and opportunist enrichment.