If Iraq implodes into civil war - again - it'll happen in the next few days.
Iraqi forces are advancing towards Kurdish-held sites in Kirkuk province.
They intend to take control of oil fields and an airbase in the disputed region, Kurdish security officials say.
The Kurds can't give up the Kirkuk oilfields without giving up the revenue required to fund an independent state.
Considering that the U.S. has roughly 5,000 troops in Iraqi Kurdistan right now, it is almost criminal how little attention our politicians and news media has given the volatile situation.
Just today, Baghdad delivered a demand that is politically impossible for the Kurds to comply with.
Earlier this week a U.S. serviceman died in Iraq via an IED for the first time in several years.
Then this morning I saw this.
This will be a really short Essay, but I think it's a question which needs to be answered.
Has anyone else around here noticed that every time the clause "The State is Indivisible" or equivalent appears in any country's Constitution, that country has a chunk of its land and people who emphatically do NOT want to be part of it?
BREAKING: Russian warplanes bombing #SDF positions in the recently captured Koniko oil field area east of Deir ez-Zor. via @hawarnews
— Aylina Kılıç (@AylinaKilic) September 25, 2017
The Kurds of Iraq are about to vote for independence and Baghdad is not happy.
Reporter: "President Trump, are you going to kill every man, woman and child in North Korea?"
Trump: "We'll see."
It doesn't get much attention in the U.S. press, but Iraq has managed to solve their prison population problem - they don't take prisoners.
