A variant of the MacKinder "heartland" theory of where the wrold's linchpin reaisdes. For MacKinder it incorporated what is now Ukraine and western Russia/belarus.
That Bernard Lewis map could easily backfire on the USA/Britain because there is no guarantee Kurds or Sunni/Shia Iraq would be western aligned. Russia might be happy with the plan because it weakens Turkiye and this opens the door to Russia to manipulate all these small states. And because Turkiye is a big loser, they might also turn against the west if they thought it was the USA/Britain that caused a Kurdish civil war.
Agree, Frank. Turkiye is absolutely opposed to Kurd unification, to the point of atrocities. Yet for Western purposes, it only needs application to a few current states, Iran being one.
A variant of the MacKinder "heartland" theory of where the wrold's linchpin reaisdes. For MacKinder it incorporated what is now Ukraine and western Russia/belarus.
Thanks, JL. Care to explain? Sounds intriguing.
That Bernard Lewis map could easily backfire on the USA/Britain because there is no guarantee Kurds or Sunni/Shia Iraq would be western aligned. Russia might be happy with the plan because it weakens Turkiye and this opens the door to Russia to manipulate all these small states. And because Turkiye is a big loser, they might also turn against the west if they thought it was the USA/Britain that caused a Kurdish civil war.
Agree, Frank. Turkiye is absolutely opposed to Kurd unification, to the point of atrocities. Yet for Western purposes, it only needs application to a few current states, Iran being one.