As Syria Ceasefire Expires, Erdogan Meets Putin In Sochi, Iraq Says No Thanks To ‘Mark Esperanto’s’ 1,000 Nomadic US Troops
To nobody's surprise, Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday claimed "hundreds" of Kurdish fighters are still loitering near Syria's border with Turkey despite promising to withdraw as part of the "ceasefire" Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo brokered in Ankara last week.
What the two Mikes actually did was promise Erdogan that if he stopped killing people for five days, the US would facilitate the removal of Kurds from the "buffer" zone Erdogan wants to establish. In other words, Pence and Pompeo agreed to