- No. Helping Kurds become a sovereign country is against the interests of NATO member Turkey, whereby if Kurdistan comes to exist out of Iraq, it brings up the question of whether it should exist out of Syria, Iran, and NATO member Turkey, and would likely bring even more chaos to this particularly chaotic decision.
- Yes. The parallel to Kurdistan is pre-WWI Poland, which was a nation without a country, partitioned off between the German Empire, the Russian Empire, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Kurdistan is split between 4 countries yet the areas they inhabit are cohesively & majority Kurdish. On the principle of the self-determination of peoples, they ought to be able to do as they please without fearing another non-Kurdish dictator gassing them. They are already defending themselves from foreign insurrection in Syria and Iraq and should have full access to the power that only an independent country's military can bring. The primary function of a State is protecting its citizens, and Baghdad is failing again and again.
- No. Kurdistan would be a landlocked country with poor transport infrastructure and little prospect for economic development and poorly economically integrated betweent the 4 parts of Kurdistan, surrounded by enemies on all sides. How successful could it be? Would it end up requiring another foreign intervention to defend? If the parallel to pre-WWI Poland is correct, recall how WWII was started: with Germany, Austria and Russia invading Poland again in a war that killed 70 million people, including 1/6 of the population of Poland.
- Yes. The borders of most Middle Eastern countries were agreed by Europeans on a League of Nations mandate, not by the people living there, and have not changed much since. All countries had access to the Sea by virtue of being controlled from abroad primarily by Sea. So who cares that they are landlocked?
- Maybe. What do Iraqis think of their country being dismembered? Not just Kurds, but the whole country? They should get a say more than a bunch of Westerners far removed from them.
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