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Fighters from the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG)
The cultural identity of the Middle East where peoples lived for century [sic centuries] without statehood has given the Kurds a particularly strong incentive to carry on their struggle for independence over the last few decades, and American political strategists have taken full advantage of this. That is why the
Kurds have been designated a place on the map to establish their own independent state of Kurdistan in America's plans for the Greater Middle East (MENA), which would serve as
a new Washington-controlled ally with a population of 30 million, and would owe its existence to the United States. Yet being able to rely on
US-funded Kurdish armed groups to deal with regional security issues would be just one of the tasks the White House plans to allocate to this Kurdish state, given that the Kurds have proven they are capable in combat and have demonstrated their commitment to achieving military objectives. The state could also be used to
maintain a favorable power balance in the Middle East from Washington's point of view, between Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and part of the Kurds' historical homeland in east Transcaucasia between the Kur and Araxes rivers, where they have lived for centuries.
Comment: There was nothing 'rogue' about them. They were a death squad; their job was to terrorize people and keep the war going. This was 'unofficial-but-secretly-official' British (and thus NATO, American, and Western) military policy.