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Offline TomSea

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ANALYSIS: Kurds see 'no friends but the mountains' after US rebuke #SyriaWar Pro-Kurdish fighters claim US, Syria, Turkey and Iran are collaborating to undermine them, after having served US as shock troops against IS
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ANALYSIS: Kurds see 'no friends but the mountains' after US rebuke
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Pro-Kurdish fighters claim US, Syria, Turkey and Iran are collaborating to undermine them, after having served US as shock troops against IS

QAMISHLI, Syria - The Kurdish YPG militia counted the US among its most trusted allies as it fought the Islamic State (IS) group in northern Syria. But that all changed on Wednesday. Turkey's invasion of the border town of Jarabulus, combined with a US warning the YPG will lose its support unless it withdraws from nearby areas, has left the Kurds feeling abandoned.

The YPG on Thursday heeded the US order it must not control areas west of the Euphrates river, and has withdrawn some forces from the front lines around Jarabulus and Manbij, a town it took from IS earlier this month.

But Kurds have taken the US statements to be proof of a collaboration with Turkey to undermine their goal of creating a contiguous confederation in northern Syria, after they have served their purpose as shock troops against IS.

Read More At: http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/analysis-syrian-kurds-left-dark-allies-abandon-them-en-mass-447527904

Shame if this is so; hopefully it's not as full-force as the Kurds say.
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Re: ANALYSIS: Kurds see 'no friends but the mountains' after US rebuke #SyriaWar Pro-Kurdish fighters claim US, Syria, Turkey and Iran are collaborating to undermine them, after having served US as shock troops against IS
« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2016, 01:29:43 am »
Quote from: TomSea on August 28, 2016, 01:12:11 am
Shame if this is so; hopefully it's not as full-force as the Kurds say.

The Kurds are by no means lily-white, but they are nevertheless obvious allies in the region -- cohesive, oppressed, and their enemies happen to be ours as well.

So of course Obama's going to screw them over.
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Re: ANALYSIS: Kurds see 'no friends but the mountains' after US rebuke #SyriaWar Pro-Kurdish fighters claim US, Syria, Turkey and Iran are collaborating to undermine them, after having served US as shock troops against IS
« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2016, 01:32:13 am »
Quote from: TomSea on August 28, 2016, 01:12:11 am
Shame if this is so; hopefully it's not as full-force as the Kurds say.


YPG is aligned with PKK which we have considered a Marxist terrorist group. And we are against Assad except when we're not. And we have an agreement with Russia except when we don't. In any case, we are not in Syria except when we are.
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