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A national liberation movement should be supported on the basis of how it it effects imperialism in my opinion. If a national liberation movement aids imperialists on their goals then that movement is going to eitheir be, or develop reactionary tendencies.

There's also the important factor of where that movement happens. The Kurdish struggle is split between about 4 different existing nations, Türkiya, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. With a large exception for the first country, the Kurdish national liberation movement has been used as a tool by the US against all three of the others in separate occasions.

In Iraq, although I denounce Sadaam's use of chemical weapons, it should be noted that the Kurdish rebellion was spurred on by the CIA who knew that the Kurds could not defeat the Iraqi army. The CIA specifically agitated the unprepared Iraqi kurds inti getting into a conflict with Sadaam so that the US could use those actions as an excuse to demonize the Iraqi Ba'ath.

In Iran, during the Iran-Iraq war, the MEK betrayed the revolution, believing that if Iraq won the war, they'd be more likely to get into power. The MEK cooperated with Kurdish groups to perform terrorist attacks in Iran. The US actively defended Iraq in the UN during the war. Also many of the weapons that get smuggled to modern Iranian rioters (Mossad operatives) come from Iraqi Kurdistan, and the Kurdistan question is frequently used as an argument to balkanize Iran, a multiethnic nation, into a selection of ethnostates.

With Syria, I already went over how the SDF's cooperation with the US crippled the Syrian nation. They also regularly talk about their "solidarity" with Israel.

Finally, is Türkiya, which I'll admit I have the least knowledge about, and since we have quite a few Turkish comrades on the grad, my suggestion is to request their view of the Kurdish struggle within Türkiya.

What I am familiar with in regards to Türkiya, is the fact that the fascist grey wolves that were supported by operation Gladio, were ethnic nationalists who brutalized the Kurdish people. I'm also aware that Kurds in Türkiya have aligned heavily with the labor struggle, and socialist movements, considering they are such a marginalized population under the boot of turkish nationalism.

From here, it would be my assumption, that they should be supported in their efforts regarding Türkiya, an active NATO member, an the main funder of anti-Kurdish militants like Takfeery islamists, in the region.

Though, if I may, I'd like to briefly mention why I view the greater Kurdistan project to be currently unfeasible. In the context of Syria, Iraq, and Iran, if a Kurdistan was made from their relavent territory, it would unquestionably be at odds with the leftover states, not to mention Türkiya. It would be entirely landlocked, gave little resources in the Kurdish majority areas (Rojava is still majority Arab for example, and to keep the demographic as majority Kurdish, they wouldn't be able to take the oil and gas). Essentially, it's a country that would be diplomatically isolated by all its neighbors, without any access to the ocean, or a sea.

The only way for a state like that to remain "sovereign" would be to cooperate with the US and Israel, which would never allow them to he a socialist bastion of progress, instead likely funding the reactionary parts of the Kurdish movement they currently do like in Iraq. What's left is a state with no sovereignty which would trend towards ethnic chauvinism not dissimilar to zionism.

The region would just further divide into unsoverign ethnostates, which gives the US more licenses to claim West Asia as some backward land of savages that can't resolve ethnic tensions like civilized people. The solution to imperialism in West Asia, is a broad United front that supercedes ethnoreligious divisions, not further sectarianism, spurred about by colonial meddling.

These are just my views on the subject, but I'd love to hear the views of Turkish comrades who likely hold the most acute analysis of the Kurdish liberation struggle. My analysis mainly comes from evidence concerning Syria and Iran, as those are my parents homelands.