The Biden administration had to know that there was going to be some blowback from the Turks after they officially recognized the Armenian Genocide of 1915. But this effort from the Turkish media is  a little silly. The Clash Report, who is allegedly tied to the Turkish military, posted a rebuttal last week.

It lists off a number of other “genocides,” from the alleged killing of “over a million civilians[s]…by the US forces” in the 1899-1902 Philippine-American War, to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Korean War, the coups in Iran and Guatemala and the “massacre in Cuba” by US-backed Batista forces. The list goes on with the Vietnam War, the mass killings of communists in Indonesia, the “massacre in Cambodia and Laos,” which Clash Report blames on the US, the 1973 coup in Chile, massacres by US-backed forces in Argentina, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, and the US invasions of Grenada and Panama. The chart also features the Gulf War, the war in Afghanistan, the Iraq War, the “Darfur Coup,” the Arab Spring, the Syrian War and “US-backed Israel’s massacres of Palestinians.”

All in all they lay the blame for some 84 million people at the feet of the US. Presidents in the past have said that they were going to make this move, but failed to do so, because of NATO ties. But those ties have continued to splinter recently as Turkey has shown a tendency to partner up with everyone’s favorite bully, Russia. From AMN News:

On Friday, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that its forces and their Turkish counterparts carried out a joint patrol for a record distance in northeastern Syria, as it extended more than 100 km into the Al-Qamishli District of Al-Hasakah.

The commander of the Russian forces convoy, Brigadier General Andrei Titov, said:

“Today a new joint Russian-Turkish patrol was carried out from the Sharq crossing. The peculiarity of this patrol is the long distance of the route, as it included a large number of towns.”

In the big scheme of things, Biden making this announcement is not that big of a deal. It is really just more of a public recognition of the fractures between the US and Turkey that have been growing for a while.

Don’t pretend that this mallet of information, no matter how ludicrous, won’t be picked up by China, and our own left, to beat the country with.