It's not a financially motivated stance and you're concluding he's anti-Turkey.
What he did is ask Baghdad to respond to a breach of sovereignty. Now before anyone replies to me "but PKK..", take into account other actions of Turkey such as the illegal Bashiqa base and the threatening about...
https://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/iraqi-troops-kill-baghdadis-right-hand-man-in-kirkuk/
A lot of ex republican guard IS leaders are still not arrested/killed which is very dangerous, it's their experience which caused this success of IS.
For what do you need to tag them Sunni civillians, by doing so you take part and take side in the Sunni vs Shia conflict. Thought you had by now realized that both Shia and Sunni when in power terrorize people, their governance is through fear.
You are right.
There are goods and bads in every side here, trying to argument it I have come to see that the Arab states are shit so i'll drop it. Less mosques insallah.
Syria needs Arab intervention from other Arab states, anything else is resulting in caring out land from Syria. We see this by Kurds and Turkey does the same
But sync up what exactly, the highway already exists. You can drive from Damascus to Tehran, all of it is covered by highways already it's not like there's an empty desert with no roads.
Eastern Syrian desert and Anbar desert remain places to avoid unless you want to risk an airstrike or an...
IS attacks in Kirkuk are done by Kurds, ISF can handle that. This is not on the military level but political, a game of politics and has to do with the elections as well. Although it is unlikely to result in actual Pesh deployment to Kirkuk as it will meet resistance on military level and from PMU.
You're the type that would support ISIS rats invading them and beheading them only to stroke your hatred. Your interest lies not in their progression but their destruction. Fall of the regime should be for their progression, I know that is too much asking from the people living in the middle...
Maliki is the 'lead' of the pro Russia-Iran camp, the masses are favoring Abadi over him who chooses to work with the US and maintain neutrality officially, he's done a good job. ISF has a lot to learn from US military, their presence has been key in contributing to the rebuilding of the ISF...
Partitioning Iraq is not in US interests. They favor Baghdad over Arbil in the end, Kurds just please them all the time but are not significant enough for the US to drop Baghdad. Iran supported PMU and provided some jets but does not have the capabilities to provide the support that the US has...
There's financial problems to building a large conventional army and air force given all the need for reconstruction. It's a difficult neigbhorhood with threats from every side and within. The Kurdish problem is still there as well. Baghdad's safety increased immensely, bombings have become rare...
Having followed this campaign since 2014 closely, daily I can say that there's been times the US was idle and let IS advance whilst they could have stopped them. A very clear example of this is the fall of Ramadi in 2015, where a week before its fall previous US chief of staff Martin Dempsey...
It's been months and SDF, SAA are not destroying the remaining IS holdings in far eastern Syria. Check the map, if ISF doesn't attack them they will come to attack in Anbar and Nineveh.