[Alberta's Child]

The announcement of a deal between Syria’s Kurds and its government is a major shift in alliances that came after President Donald Trump ordered all U.S. troops withdrawn from the northern border area amid the rapidly deepening chaos.

In other words, this deal could have been made years ago if only the U.S. would let these misfits grow up and face reality on their own.

[Helicondelta]

“In other words, this deal could have been made years ago”

Exactly. Let Assad and Erdogan fight it off. I don’t see any upside in getting in the middle of this.

[rdcbn]

There are two ways of looking at things

One is your perspective which has merit

The other is that the US wished to retain main influence in Northern Syria which it has now lost to Syria, Russia and Iran

Not sure this is a good thing or a bad thing.

Also not sure it’s a good thing to have Syria and Turkey at each other’s throats. Time will tell.

Russia has clout in both Turkey and Syria as well as Iran and PKK is aligned with Iran who is backing Assad so it’s very plausible that this whole exercise was a Putin engineered gambit to force the US military to exit Syria

Then again, Russia has always had Syria as a client state and the world did not end and Islamic Iran has always been aligned with Russia and hostile to the US so it’s just back to the status quo.

The huge losers in this are the Europeans who should have stepped up to the plate and gave support but who instead hid under their desks. They will come to regret this and will pay a huge price at some point in the future

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

Assad has played a blinder in this war. He is going to win, and Russia and Iran’s standing and influence in the Middle East is going to rise exponentially.

[Sam Gamgee]

But is it also true ISIS is now on the loose and we have 174 dead Kurds?