[Aromasin]

The key part is that there are multiple insurgencies going on simultaneously. There are separatist movements that are looking to create new nations states, while simultaneous there are non-violent protests ongoing, generally looking for regime change and a move away from extremists religious tendencies. Both can be true simultaneously.

[regularization]

> separatist movements

The Kurds had their own state at the end of World War II - the US and UK forced them to dissolve and integrate with Iran.

Actually the US just abandoned the Kurds in Syria two weeks ago as it signed deals with Syria's former al Qaeda leader.

Kurds are people the West foments to armed rebellion, and then quashes, for decades, depending on western material needs at the minute.

[whatever1]

Kurds are getting abandoned by the west on a weekly basis for the past like century. It's insane what these people have have gone through,still no resolution.

[philwelch]

Wikipedia describes it as a “a short-lived Kurdish self-governing unrecognized state in present-day Iran” and “a puppet state of the Soviet Union”. Doesn’t really count as a free and independent state.

[logicchains]

>The Kurds had their own state at the end of World War II - the US and UK forced them to dissolve and integrate with Iran.

The Kurds were also supposed to have their own state at the end of World War 1, but western countries abandoned them and didn't force Turkey to honour its obligations, leaving Turkey free to genocide them just like it did the Armenians, Assyrians and Pontic Greeks.