“For US special operations teams, who have kept an incredibly low profile in the war-torn country for a couple years now...”
Well - Trump did send in bigger trucks anyway. With flags.
Big trucks with big flags to support tribes with flags
Long live Rojava
He is therewith telling Erdogan to leave the Kurds alone. He can’t threaten Erdogan because Turkiye is a formal ally but it would not do to let Erdogan overrun our real ally in the area. This seems a quintessential Trump move.
As long as we don't skeedaddle at some future point...and leave those nice four-wheelers for our enemies to use against us later.