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Old 5th Dec 2015, 17:38
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Iraqis giving them the heave ho also seems to indicate that Turkey is getting some cold shoulder treatment.
More worryingly than that, it indicates that the fracture-line in the "coalition" against ISIL is getting ever closer to full-blown rupture. Russia, Iran, Iraq, Assad and Hezbollah on one side, versus Saudi, Turkey, Qatar and assorted Sunni nations on the other.

For some reason we in the West think the latter faction is worthy of our unswerving support (despite their various predilections for autocracy, Islamism and Wahhabism) to the point that a US State Department spokesman felt the need to make excuses for alleged war crimes committed by Turkmen rebels after the SU-24 shootdown. The US still sometimes gives the impression that it thinks Russia is the true adversary in all of this, despite alleged cooperation over deconfliction of air operations. Things could get really, really ugly.

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