The International Report
January 20th, 2023
U.S. Administration Gives the 'Green Light' On More Airstrikes in Support of United Nations Operations in TurkmenistanWASHINGTON D.C. - The White House confirmed yesterday an announcement that the Pentagon released earlier this week that humanitarian and stability operations in Turkmenistan, now entering into their sixth month, have received a significant increase in aviation and logistical support with the turn of the new year- but more explicitly, a focus on air superiority operations and airstrikes, aimed at decisively disrupting the military infrastructure of the brutal New World Turkmen Youth Party, or more commonly known as New World Turkmenia.
United States Central Command (CENTCOM) General Bradley S. Grant emphasised a renewed focus aimed at crippling the capabilities of the NWRC and its paramilitary forces to use military weapons against both humanitarian assistance forces and non-combatant civilians in support of the United Nations Operation in Turkmenistan (UNOTURM).
"US forces operating in support of the UN mission to Turkmenistan have been instrumental in every aspect of operations taking place in the country, working tirelessly to backfill the shortage of troops and supplies that have impacted the mission." General Grant detailed, also laying out the intensified air campaign that has been underway throughout the country since the new year. "Air Forces and Naval Aviation have played a critical role in securing the airspace over much of Turkmenistan, shifting from a 'mitigated risk' course of action in accordance with the United Nations Security Council, to a proactive air dominance campaign, including the suppression of NWRC-operated air defences, which have severely impacted regional partner mission and personnel safety, as well as providing a blanket of security from which the NWRC and its subordinate aligned forces have indiscriminately waged war against the innocent." This marks a large shift in the stance that the United States has taken in support of the UNOTURM mission, which some have argued carries the equal risk of protracting the conflict as it does of shortening it.
"One misplaced bomb can inspire tomorrow's Mohammed Atta or Bin Laden." Michal Wight points out, a Central Asia geopolitical expert. "...Additionally, we have to consider the downstream effects of the complete destruction of Turkmenistan's military and defence infrastructure, which I and many others believe is why the United States has been so hesitant up until this point to simply come in and bomb everything. That loss could be catastrophic in fending off threats of aggression from Iran, who are not likely to heed the same respect of neutrality that Turkmenistan has historically claimed."
The New World Revolutionary Corps (NWRC), which has served as the conventional arm of the NWT regime's military strength since the Turkmen Youth Day of Revolt on the first of July this past year, consists of nearly 80% of the total strength of the pre-revolution Turkmenistan Armed Forces. Witnesses and members of the Turkmen Armed Forces described widespread dissension in their ranks before the revolution, but murmurs and rumours of the coming coup d'etat were seemingly nonexistent in the days leading up to the revolt.
The UN mission to Turkmenistan was originally outlined to restore stability and provide humanitarian aid throughout the country over the course of 90 days, but delays in approval resulted in a reactive fight that vastly underestimated the degree of suffering and subsequent reliance on the NWT and its forces for food and resources to survive. Numerous logistical shortfalls have plagued the mission since, including fighting in the border region between Armenia and Azerbaijan, unrest and rumours of revolution in both Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, and widespread riots in Iran. Central Asian experts have warned of a 'domino effect' that multiple successful revolutions would have across the region, and the impacts of each have already been felt the world over in the form of the abrupt drop in oil and natural gas exports from Turkmenistan alone back in August.
Human rights groups now estimate that between 10 and 20 thousand people have died as a result of the snowballing series of catastrophes in Turkmenistan. Beginning with the famine under the Murtazayev regime, followed by the Youth Day of Revolt and the ensuing purges, then the retaliatory attacks against UN peacekeepers and humanitarian assistance forces; and finally the infighting and slaughter of its own citizens, stemming from the power vacuum that took hold in the wake of the lawlessness following the Youth Day of Revolt. Though actual figures may not be known for some time, it is sufficient to say that the conflict over the last six months has threatened the very future of Turkmenistan, whose outcome still remains in flux.
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