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Counter arguments
>Kurdistan dialogue
Iraq would see a direct dialogue with the Kurds as undermining the authority of the central Iraqi government and disturbing the unity of Iraq as a nation, and according to the briefings Iraq is wary of the Kurds' long-term separatist agenda and this would only further suspicions
Poland just withdrew their troops from Iraq in 2008, so they would be at least a little wary of trying to start up things in the region again, especially with their populace being ambivalent about international conflicts (yeah this is just copy-pasted from my earlier one but I think it's still relevant lol)
>Drone patrols
Doing drone patrols on the Turkish border without consulting Turkey would most likely piss them off big-time, and they would want to have the ability to veto drone-strikes too because it is their nation's border
Sending drones over major Turkish trade routes would also piss them off, since oil is around 30% of their country's energy supply, they're the world's largest users of petroleum for vehicles, and they have basically zero in-house production, so they rely heavily on imported oil and oil from Iraq is their largest supplier next to Russia (and I currently control all of the oil fields in Iraq)
Poland's populace has little support for their government intervening in foreign affairs (weaker argument in this case but still mildly relevant)
Any drone strikes would have to be requested/approved by all relevant parties (Iraq, the Kurds, and Turkey) as opposed to just one of them, as it is the Turkish border so they'd want to have a say, Kurdish lands are involved so they'd want to have a say and would be pissed off if Iraq just said do it, and Iraq would see them being left out as further affirming Kurdish independence and disrupting the unity of Iraq as a single nation, which would delay drone-strikes because Poland would have to wait for the bureaucracy of all three parties to approve
There are a bunch of refugee camps on the western side of Turkey's border shown in the map, so drone strikes in that region would be more difficult to avoid international outrage

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