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the war in iraq is a 3-way conflict between sunnis (predominantly arab), kurds and shias. Last year when the sunni arabs rose up to kick out the shia iraqi government, the sunni arab and kurdish soldiers in northern iraq all "switched sides" in unison and whilst ISIS expanded (using the "former" iraqi soldiers) ... the kurds also expanded... it was the "ribentropp-molotov" agreement between kurds and sunni-arabs to "carve out" their states and achieve territorial maximalism for both sides.
That "kicked off" conveniently when the final results of the Iraqi National Elections were released by the Electoral Commission which showed Nuri Al Maliki as having the largest number of seats... It meant that the sunni and kurdish parties who didn't want him in for another term put into action their "plan B" and tried to overthrow the regime in Baghdad.
What happened then...
instead of the "tribal revolutionaries" (isis in disguise as it was then) taking Baghdad and overthrowing the regime there... the shia clergy (sistani) put out a fatwa to raise a new shia army... and that's how the "popular mobilisation force" came about out of the blue, made up of former shia-militias as well as ordinary civilians joining up. That stopped the "tribal revolutionaries" and "kurds" in their step just on the western outskirts of Baghdad near Abu Ghraib...
and since last october the popular mobilisation has become the backbone of "iraq" forces... and spawned loyal sunni arab units as well as christian and yazidi and shabaki units.
A "showdown" with the Kurds was inevitable as now its jockeying for territory... like I wrote... there are three warring parties. always understand and view the conflict from that perspective in order to have a clear understanding of what's happening there. Attempting to view the conflict as a "two actor" war would inevitably confuse matters and throw up many many contradictions. But viewed as a natural three way war its pretty clear.
That "kicked off" conveniently when the final results of the Iraqi National Elections were released by the Electoral Commission which showed Nuri Al Maliki as having the largest number of seats... It meant that the sunni and kurdish parties who didn't want him in for another term put into action their "plan B" and tried to overthrow the regime in Baghdad.
What happened then...
instead of the "tribal revolutionaries" (isis in disguise as it was then) taking Baghdad and overthrowing the regime there... the shia clergy (sistani) put out a fatwa to raise a new shia army... and that's how the "popular mobilisation force" came about out of the blue, made up of former shia-militias as well as ordinary civilians joining up. That stopped the "tribal revolutionaries" and "kurds" in their step just on the western outskirts of Baghdad near Abu Ghraib...
and since last october the popular mobilisation has become the backbone of "iraq" forces... and spawned loyal sunni arab units as well as christian and yazidi and shabaki units.
A "showdown" with the Kurds was inevitable as now its jockeying for territory... like I wrote... there are three warring parties. always understand and view the conflict from that perspective in order to have a clear understanding of what's happening there. Attempting to view the conflict as a "two actor" war would inevitably confuse matters and throw up many many contradictions. But viewed as a natural three way war its pretty clear.
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