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Henningsen: US ‘Squatting’ in Syria, Attempting to Manage NATO, Turkey, Kurds and Russia</h1>
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<span class="date published time" title="2018-01-26T17:30:00+00:00" style="background: url("images/icon-time.png") left top no-repeat; padding: 2px 0px 2px 21px;">JANUARY 26, 2018</span> BY <span class="vcard author"><span class="fn"><a href="http://21stcenturywire.com/author/21wire/" rel="author" style="color: rgb(204, 153, 0); text-decoration: none;" class="">21WIRE</a></span></span> <span class="post-comments" style="background: url("images/icon-comments.png") left top no-repeat; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 2px 0px 2px 22px;"><a href="http://21stcenturywire.com/2018/01/26/henningsen-u-s-squatting-syria-attempting-manage-nato-turkey-kurds-russia/#disqus_thread" data-disqus-identifier="104929 http://21stcenturywire.com/?p=104929" style="color: rgb(204, 153, 0); text-decoration: none;" class="">2
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<p class="p1" style="line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><strong class="">The situation with NATO, Turkey and the Kurds in Syria is of central geopolitical importance for the United States. What’s at stake? In short, continued control and
influence in Middle East affairs…</strong></p>
<p class="p1" style="line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><em class="">Executive Editor of <a href="http://21stcenturywire.com/" style="color: rgb(204, 153, 0); text-decoration: none;" class="">21st Century Wire</a>, Patrick Henningsen, speaks
to <a href="https://rt.com/" style="color: rgb(204, 153, 0); text-decoration: none;" class="">RT International</a>:</em></p>
<p class="p1" style="line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><em class="">Partial transcript…</em></p>
<p style="line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;" class="">PH: “Who’s going to manage this situation? Is it going to be Turkey or Russia? Or, is the U.S. going to have some stake in that? That’s what’s at stake, that’s why they [the US] are
squatting. U.S. needs to be involved in this conflict.”</p>
<p class="p1" style="line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><strong class="">RT: ‘Why is Turkey so concerned about the Kurds?</strong></p>
<p class="p1" style="line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;">PH: “Both Turkey and the U.S. are using the exact same justification for mounting operations inside of Syria…which is ‘anti-terror’…or the fight against terrorists. Even though Turkey
proper hasn’t been attacked, it’s labeled this as an existential crisis, as the U.S. did with ISIS.”</p>
<p class="p1" style="line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><strong class="">RT: ‘What’s at stake here with Turkey?</strong></p>
<p class="p1" style="line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;">PH: “Maybe some type of demographic change […] a transformation to have more ‘pro-Ankara’, possibly Muslim Brotherhood Arab factions. Right now, some Free Syrian Army are fighting
on behalf of Turkey in this fight […] a new front in this war.”</p>
<p class="p1" style="line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;"><strong class="">RT: ‘How do you see this playing out, this potential confrontation?</strong></p>
<p class="p1" style="line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;">PH: “I think the U.S. will avoid that (confrontation) at all costs. They haven’t escalated because all parties agree that will mean WWIII… or it will lead to a bigger conflict. The
big loser here is Syria. It’s not the best situation for Syria, in terms of the rest of the powers involved. But it’s better than a greater, wider war.”</p>
<p style="line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" class="">READ MORE TURKEY & SYRIA NEWS AT:</span> <a href="http://21stcenturywire.com/tag/turkey" style="color: rgb(204, 153, 0); text-decoration: none;" class="">21st
Century Wire Turkey Files</a> & <a href="http://21stcenturywire.com/tag/syria" style="color: rgb(204, 153, 0); text-decoration: none;" class="">21st Century Wire Syria Files</a></strong></p>
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