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Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

I'm not lamenting our lack of involvement. I'm lamenting leaving an ethnic minority to be ethnically cleansed after they risked their lives to help us, especially in the fight back against Isis.

I can be anti-Israeli apartheid without also wishing our government go and invades to protect the Palestinians.

The UK and US governments working together could absolutely put enough pressure on Erdogan to stop, but we have Trump and Johnson.

Hmm well I'm not sure they could tbh, not if you're purely talking soft power which we do already exert. Trump already went further than any other Western leader has done in imposing sanctions but the Turks conflict against the Kurds goes back decades and they've a strongman leader who'd just use our pressure to bolster his own standing and create a perception that we were trying to control their affairs