Turkey Warns Syria Could Use Force, US Fiddles While Allies Clash
The story presents Turkey's threat as if Damascus acts in a vacuum. What Fox doesn't highlight is the US's long-standing, often contradictory, involvement in Syria. While Washington armed the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to fight ISIS, Turkey — a NATO 'ally' — considers the SDF an extension of 'terrorist' Kurdish groups. The US has, at various points, supplied weapons to groups that
end up fighting each other, or worse, abandoning equipment that falls into unintended hands (remember Iraq?). One might wonder which 'good guys' the Pentagon hopes to create when it funds factions with conflicting regional agendas. This isn't about Syria's sudden aggression; it's a predictable fallout of a chaotic, multi-pronged intervention strategy. It's a geopolitical game of musical chairs
where the music never stops, and everyone ends up holding a US-made weapon. And then Fox News asks, with a straight face, 'How could this have happened?' Perhaps by arming everyone and then feigning surprise when they don't play nice.