With US air support, the Peshmerga pushed ISIS back, taking control of Kirkuk and other areas (shaded blue).
#KurdistanReferendum
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Would the US let it's Kurdish ally get attacked? Would the US fire upon its NATO ally Turkey? #KurdishReferendum forces those questions
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Iranian military is more powerful than the Peshmerga as well. If Iran attacks, will it spiral into a larger US-Iran war? 22/x
What will the Turkish Kurds do? As Turkey fears, the separatists could easily see the Iraqi #KurdishReferendum as motivation, and rebel
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The #KurdistanReferendum also strains the anti-ISIS coalition, putting the Kurds, Iraq, Turkey, and US on potentially different sides.
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Fearing larger conflict, the US implored the Kurds not to do it. But they think they've waited more than long enough
#KurdishReferendum
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Possible outcomes range from a new, relatively stable, relatively multi-ethnic and multi-confessional, democratic state... 26/x
... to a regional interstate war--the last thing the Middle East needs.
Watch closely what happens after the #KurdistanReferendum.
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