Thanks, that explains it.
Yeah, Trump turned to the Kurds- a solid decision. Obama vacillated, accomplishing nothing good.
I’m expecting action in the oil fields next (seeing action now in the oil markets). Believe Biden will offer enemies an easy target there to get an attack, what he does after the attack I can’t guess. Probably something more stupid and costly than I can imagine.
Those oil fields are paying for the Kurds’ efforts.
Any news on Afrin? I don’t see much.
“Any news on Afrin? I don’t see much.”
Turkey is de facto annexing it. The Turkish post office has established Turkish zip codes for it. The Sunni jihadis that worked as surrogate militia for the Turks against Assad, are now hired as civil servants administering the local Government, and as the local police.
A bunch of militant Sunnis from other areas in Syria, as well as International jihadis, and their families, have been settled in Afrin by the Turkish occupation forces - often into the homes of the native Kurds, who fled, or were forced out, in a kind of Ethnic/Sectarian cleansing operation.
From Turkish-controlled Afrin, the Turkish Army intermittently bombards the Kurdish villages just outside of their control with artillery. It seems their desire is to expand their territory further, but it was mostly stymied during the Trump Administration (except for a strip they took along the border, East of the Euphrates River, around Ain Issa (North of Raqqa).
Now that the pro-jihadi/Muslim Brotherhood/Erdogan Obama Administration is effectively back in charge, I’d expect the battle lines to start shifting again this Summer.