https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/14/russian-shadow-falls-over-syria-as-kurds-open-door-for-assad
“Iran and Russia are the dominant foreign powers now,†said Arshan. “They will dictate terms in this region. Things have really changed.â€
We draw into our shell, Iran and Russia are the powers, the Kurds mad at us and disappointed too, Turkey mad at us as well as rampaging in Syria, who knows what they might be doing in Turkey. Turkey has valid concerns as some previous posts show. Let's not fool ourselves and let's not just vilify them. There is a lot of blame to go around.
This Kurdish General Mazloum is PKK per this twitterer. Mazloum has been in a number of stories, I think I saw him interviewed:
Ragıp Soylu
@ragipsoylu
My a few cents:
• President of the United States directly talked to a leader of PKK, Ferdi Abdi Şahin (General Mazloum). Let that sink in after Trump’s acknowledgment that PKK was a US partner force while designated.
• How will US mediate while taking a clear side with YPG?
https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1183988670929522689
And again,
Brett McGurk helped put this original deal together to fight ISIS and ISIS was largely beaten, not 100% but ISIS was defeated, Assad didn't do it, Russia, Hezbollah and Iran didn't really do it either.
There was Obama's red line not to cross....so, it was crossed and things weren't done, there certainly is no one party to lay blame on.
It's all a plateful, what we are doing, we expanded our base in Iraq, we can just wait and see what develops.
So, we are in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, I can definitely see the point, that we don't need to be everywhere....
Had to add this, here is that General Mazloum:
Kurdistan 24 English
@K24English
Monday’s discussion marked the first time that Donald Trump has ever spoken with the Kurdish commander. It also seemed that Trump did a bit of mediating between the #SDF and Turkey. #TwitterKurds @VP
@aykan_erdemir
https://twitter.com/K24English/status/1184010035283877889
US President Donald Trump (left) spoke on Oct. 14, 2019, with Gen. Mazloum Abdi, the head of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
Story here:
https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/0fbfcec5-0003-47f5-923b-b073d2a52d2bAnyway,
Ragip Soylu brought up some good points...why weren't we more critical of Saudi Arabia and the Khashoggi murder? Or why are we pretty easy on Egypt with the said repression there? I'm not taking up the points, Soylu, the journalist above said that and he's got some right in what he is saying.
"My favorite dictator", that's not to be critical of Trump, it's a bad, bad area of the world. It sort of makes sense to say even.