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Podcast: Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
Episode: Turkey Invades Syria as the United States Abandons the Kurds
Description: Kurdish forces have a long history of siding with the United States. And the United States has a long history of eventually selling them out. The latest iteration of this dynamic unfolded when Donald Trump ordered a small US military contingent to withdraw from Kurdish controlled parts of Northeastern Syria in advance of a likely Turkish military operation. The move came after phone call between Trump and Turkish President Recep Teyyep Erdogan in which Trump apparently acquiesced to a Turkish military operation against Kurdish fighters from the region. The situation is rapidly evolving -- so what I op...