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There are no simple answers to that.

Those is Iraq at the leadership level are not happy with US because of Iranians taking Kurkuk. Those leaders in Iraq are game players with big chips in the oil game. It is tribal. I suspect the average Iraq Kurd has a positive opinion of the United States. The leaders there do also, but they will make deals with Iran and Turkey. Neither is in the interest of Kurds in general.

In Turkey, they would love for the US to free them from Erdogan. They are helpless, except to demonstrate or to leave and join the PKK in the mountains. This is a natural reaction, but very bad as far as influence that comes with that.

In Syria? 99% of them are very pro US. They are quite different from other Kurds in the Region. They are totally secular. Many are however atheist, influence of the PKK. A larger number of Syrian Kurds are Christian, have been for quite a while, and it is a growing number. But they must keep their heads low in the Middle East. Assad/Damascus makes it a point to say they don’t persecute Christians. Which is somewhat true. But they are treated like 2nd class citizens, and because many Christians immigrated during one of the massacres or Genocides from the Turks, a lot of them are not even citizens of Syria. Some towns in North Syria are largely Christian (including Syriac Christians, who are not Kurdish). Most of the N. Syrian Kurds who are Muslim are a moderate form that ISIS hates. Including a large number of Alevi’s in Efrin (Afrin) before the takeover. The Alevi are tacit Muslim, only enough to keep the others from killing them. I know some of them and one here in the US. They are worth reading about.

The Kurds have been betrayed before by other powers. We did not promise them long term support from the beginning. They have been watchful. When Efrin (Afrin) was over run by Turkey and we were not able to intercede because of Russian control over that airspace and the fact that Turkey is NATO, they were very angry. But they soon concluded that Russia was the reason it happened. With Assad’s approval.

The Kurds know that without US pressure, even on Assad, they will not be treated well by Russia and Damascus.

In Iran, the Kurds would love support to free them. My friends in Syria tell me that if Tehran’s Mullahs fell, it would not change the plight of the Kurds in Iran. I don’t really understand that, but they (Kursa) are keenly aware of each other, but not totally united.