Smasharoo wrote:
Well, everyone but the Kurdish Nationalists.
I'm not sure why you'd think that, honestly. Partition is an extremely unpopular idea on the ground in Iraq pretty much universally. If you had a vote, it would lose. Badly.
I'm not sure why you'd think that, honestly. Partition is an extremely unpopular idea on the ground in Iraq pretty much universally. If you had a vote, it would lose. Badly.
Worded that way, obviously.
Creating the seeds of a Kurdish state out of pieces of Iraq and Syria would be favorable to the Kurds. A coastal Alawite state would be much more stable and wouldn't necessitate an iron grip to control. Reorganizing large chunks of Syria-Iraq into a single state is favored by ISIS/L.Removing claims on Baghdad and the coast from the separatists is favored by Iran. They'd love a sphere of influence.
Not likely to happen, though.