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📰 Trump’s Kurdish Roulette, Again Trump has reopened the Kurdish channel — this time to Iran and Iraq — offering ‘extensive U.S. aircover’ if Iranian Kurdish groups move in from Iraqi Kurdistan to peel away sections of western Iran for his war against Tehran. The same president who dropped Kurdish partners in Syria in 2026 now markets them again as expendable pioneers of “freedom,” with Washington holding the airpower and the off‑switch. “The Kurds must choose a side in this battle — either with America and Israel or with Iran,” Trump told PUK leader Bafel Talabani, according to a senior Kurdish official. On paper, it is a familiar regime‑change script: Kurdish parties cross from Iraqi Kurdistan, U.S. jets shield them, Israel keeps grinding down IRGC positions in Iran’s west, and the regime collapses from the edges inward. Even U.S. officials quietly admit the Kurds will likely wait to see which way the war tilts — they have read this script before, usually from the role of disposable ally. The danger is immediate, not theoretical. Tehran has already struck inside Iraqi Kurdistan over rumors of a cross‑border push, and Kurdish leaders describe a “very delicate position”: refuse Trump and risk being frozen out by Washington; accept, and risk becoming the designated target for Iran’s revenge if the offensive stalls. Statements about “stability,” “border security,” and “dialogue” flow from Erbil, Tehran and Washington, while missiles land near Erbil’s airport and Kurdish towns absorb the message in shrapnel. Once again, a stateless people — scattered across Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran, and bombed in turn by each capital — is being asked to serve as the ground force for somebody else’s map, with nothing written down for the day after the lines move. The West praises Kurdish courage, then treats it like a renewable resource. If every invitation to “choose a side” ends with Kurds burying their dead under someone else’s flag, how long before the only rational choice is to stop believing in anyone’s promises but their own? #kurds#iran#trump#war#proxyWar#regimeChange#geopolitics 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸