{"id":3883,"date":"2026-01-22T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/kobane-besieged-january-22-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T06:45:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T05:45:22","slug":"kobane-besieged-january-22-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/kobane-besieged-january-22-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Kobane besieged January 22, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some disaster warning here &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kurds are now fighting for Kobane, google it &#8211; Rojava is about to fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are plenty of videos showing joyous ISIS terrorists who have captured female peshmergas that they will defile, torture, and kill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just like with Iran, there is a lack of demonstrations on our streets and the Palestine gang is quite silent &#8211; I know what I think about this and time and time again we have been shown that they are not entirely honest. Not because peace in Gaza is not an honorable thing because it is, but for the simple reason that they have sympathies for Hamas, Hezbollah, and ISIS in their ranks. When Kurds or Iranian opposition want to overthrow the mullahs, they become completely silent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, in Stockholm, two demonstrations clashed &#8211; pro-Palestine and pro-Kurds &#8211; what more do you need to see to understand who is hiding behind the good cause for Palestine?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our youngest environmental activist and she who rhymes with Gadd are completely silent, and they are our biggest Middle Eastern megaphones standing at the forefront.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turkey reached Trump and of all the crap he has done, this is the worst for me because he has given the green light to a massacre without hesitation, which was also completely unnecessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kurds are the most stable and rule-abiding group in the MENA region who have been absolutely loyal to the West &#8211; even God would see throwing them under the bus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This mass murder is not yet on anyone&#8217;s radar for the simple reason that the opposition-building machinery has not started yet &#8211; and above you know why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it is also an excellent example that Europe cannot protect its friends when needed &#8211; because if the US withdraws, couldn&#8217;t we in Europe assist with airstrikes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have the satellites, we have the aircraft that can operate from bases in southern Europe, we have the air tankers, and it would not take more than 2-3 days of carpet bombing for the desire for mass murder to leave the ISIS terrorists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is Turkey that is leading this &#8211; believe nothing else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Europe needs to start acquiring the ability to assist countries under attack in clear violation of international law and the legal order we claim to support &#8211; of course, we should have prepared to help the Kurds, but considering that it took us four years to get organized with Ukraine, the likelihood is low.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turkey will pay for this, I&#8217;m quitting kebab \ud83d\ude21<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a post in progress about Davos, but Macron wanted China to come to us instead, the solution to a bad USA is NOT China, I don&#8217;t know if Macron maybe just provoked because he is a bit of a troublemaker that drives you crazy, but in any case, bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rojava is \u00bc of the Kurdish territories &#8211; they are in SE Turkey, northern Iraq, and NW Iran, but since Turkey went after them in Syria, the Turkish territory is guaranteed to be planned for mass extermination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then maybe Iraq will get the urge again and move north?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the MENA region, the Kurds are a reliable ally who absolutely stands on the right side of history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just the fact that most people reading my posts about the Kurds have not yet noticed it is so damn telling of who we have with us in the MENA region &#8211; when Hamas is beaten, the streets are filled with demonstrators, and on October 7, 2023, it was a public celebration and jubilation on the same day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the Kurds are wiped out or 300,000 Iranians are injured, silence echoes. Our media probably has &#8220;Middle East experts&#8221; who bring in what they think the media should report on, and they obviously do not feel for the Kurds and Iranians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I come across anti-Kurdish posts on X and the videos and images are horrifying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, I don&#8217;t think it will happen, but IF the US decides not to assist Iran with an air operation, then I almost give up hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think it depends on Israel being genuinely afraid of Iranian retaliation, their Iron Dome wavered considerably last time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I guess that if the regime slowly falls, the last thing they will do is rain rockets over Israel anyway &#8211; a quick intervention would be better for everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, we are back to ISIS and genocide in Syria, as soon as the regime takes over prisons from the Kurds, tens of thousands of ISIS terrorists and their families are released &#8211; this is one of the most illogical things I have seen in the last four years &#8211; they have gladly given everything back to ISIS that the West took from them with tremendous effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t actually know where Russia stands in all of this, they liked Assad and the US helped to bring him down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The worst part is that it is happening in silence, the West has turned over and fallen back asleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But hope is not entirely lost &#8211; the Kurds are also among the world&#8217;s best soldiers, and now they apparently already have a decent drone weapon, I saw &#8211; reinforcements are pouring into Syria right now, and the final word has not been said in this epic betrayal \ud83d\ude21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some disaster warning here &#8211; The Kurds are now fighting for Kobane, google it &#8211; Rojava is about to fall. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ukraine"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kobane besieged January 22, 2026 -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/kobane-besieged-january-22-2026\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kobane besieged January 22, 2026 -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Some disaster warning here &#8211; The Kurds are now fighting for Kobane, google it &#8211; Rojava is about to fall. [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/kobane-besieged-january-22-2026\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Johan No.1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-01-22T06:01:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-01-23T05:45:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"johan No.1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"johan No.1\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/johanno1.se\\\/en\\\/kobane-besieged-january-22-2026\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/johanno1.se\\\/en\\\/kobane-besieged-january-22-2026\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"johan No.1\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/johanno1.se\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1dec165f070bde263b30eaf3c0a742e7\"},\"headline\":\"Kobane besieged January 22, 2026\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-01-22T06:01:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-01-23T05:45:22+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/johanno1.se\\\/en\\\/kobane-besieged-january-22-2026\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":890,\"commentCount\":112,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/johanno1.se\\\/en\\\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Ukraine war\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/johanno1.se\\\/en\\\/kobane-besieged-january-22-2026\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/johanno1.se\\\/en\\\/kobane-besieged-january-22-2026\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/johanno1.se\\\/en\\\/kobane-besieged-january-22-2026\\\/\",\"name\":\"Kobane besieged January 22, 2026 -\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/johanno1.se\\\/en\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2026-01-22T06:01:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-01-23T05:45:22+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/johanno1.se\\\/en\\\/kobane-besieged-january-22-2026\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/johanno1.se\\\/en\\\/kobane-besieged-january-22-2026\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/johanno1.se\\\/en\\\/kobane-besieged-january-22-2026\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Hem\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/johanno1.se\\\/en\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Kobane besieged January 22, 2026\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/johanno1.se\\\/en\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/johanno1.se\\\/en\\\/\",\"name\":\"Johan No.1\",\"description\":\"News and analysis about the war in Ukraine and other global events in world politics and security.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/johanno1.se\\\/en\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/johanno1.se\\\/en\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/johanno1.se\\\/en\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Johan No. 1\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/johanno1.se\\\/en\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/johanno1.se\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/johanno1.se\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/03\\\/cropped-No1-Logo.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/johanno1.se\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/03\\\/cropped-No1-Logo.png\",\"width\":512,\"height\":512,\"caption\":\"Johan No. 1\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/johanno1.se\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/johanno1.se\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1dec165f070bde263b30eaf3c0a742e7\",\"name\":\"johan No.1\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/06f93864ed6b830e2782e60575fff112f1c61c52bb10b194131e0e333191695b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/06f93864ed6b830e2782e60575fff112f1c61c52bb10b194131e0e333191695b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/06f93864ed6b830e2782e60575fff112f1c61c52bb10b194131e0e333191695b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"johan No.1\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/johanno1.se\\\/en\\\/author\\\/johan\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Kobane besieged January 22, 2026 -","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/kobane-besieged-january-22-2026\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Kobane besieged January 22, 2026 -","og_description":"Some disaster warning here &#8211; The Kurds are now fighting for Kobane, google it &#8211; Rojava is about to fall. [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/kobane-besieged-january-22-2026\/","og_site_name":"Johan No.1","article_published_time":"2026-01-22T06:01:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-01-23T05:45:22+00:00","author":"johan No.1","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"johan No.1","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/kobane-besieged-january-22-2026\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/kobane-besieged-january-22-2026\/"},"author":{"name":"johan No.1","@id":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/1dec165f070bde263b30eaf3c0a742e7"},"headline":"Kobane besieged January 22, 2026","datePublished":"2026-01-22T06:01:00+00:00","dateModified":"2026-01-23T05:45:22+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/kobane-besieged-january-22-2026\/"},"wordCount":890,"commentCount":112,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/#organization"},"articleSection":["Ukraine war"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/kobane-besieged-january-22-2026\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/kobane-besieged-january-22-2026\/","url":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/kobane-besieged-january-22-2026\/","name":"Kobane besieged January 22, 2026 -","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/#website"},"datePublished":"2026-01-22T06:01:00+00:00","dateModified":"2026-01-23T05:45:22+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/kobane-besieged-january-22-2026\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/kobane-besieged-january-22-2026\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/kobane-besieged-january-22-2026\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Hem","item":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Kobane besieged January 22, 2026"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/","name":"Johan No.1","description":"News and analysis about the war in Ukraine and other global events in world politics and security.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/#organization","name":"Johan No. 1","url":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cropped-No1-Logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cropped-No1-Logo.png","width":512,"height":512,"caption":"Johan No. 1"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/1dec165f070bde263b30eaf3c0a742e7","name":"johan No.1","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/06f93864ed6b830e2782e60575fff112f1c61c52bb10b194131e0e333191695b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/06f93864ed6b830e2782e60575fff112f1c61c52bb10b194131e0e333191695b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/06f93864ed6b830e2782e60575fff112f1c61c52bb10b194131e0e333191695b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"johan No.1"},"url":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/author\/johan\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3884,"href":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883\/revisions\/3884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}