By Micah Halpern
I've Been Thinking:
The Kurds of Iraq have announced that in September they will vote on seceding from Iraq and creating an independent Kurdish state in the current independent Kurdish region.
This is a huge move.
Marsoud Barzini, president of the Kurdish regional government, made the announcement on his twitter feed.
About 5 million Kurds live in the region. They have been relatively autonomous since the establishment of the new Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein. They are very productive and they have great oil reserves.
Tensions emerged when the national government tried to lay claim to the oil revenues. But since the rise of ISIS, the national government has been hands-off the Kurdish region, freeing them to fight ISIS and allowing them to use their oil profits to fight ISIS.
The tide might be turning.
Micah@MicahHalpern.com
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