Turkey invaded twos days after the kurds (SDF) took Manbij, ISIS last external supply route, its not a coincidence
Very good point. That is a strategic shift. I had not spotted that.
I am suspicious this is the result of another U.S. policy gone wrong
It sounds like we embedded US special forces in SYRIA with the Kurds to create the “ SDF” as another way to attack Assad once it became politically and militarily difficult to keep supporting ISIS ( since Putin and wiki leaks showed who really created and backed ISIS.
But the Kurds must have thought they were being green lighted to take and hold their own claimed territory- militantly so against Syrian Christian arab villagers -
And apparently no one consulted Erdogan about the “SDF” or about carving off territory in northern SYRIA to be held by Kurds
Sounds like another obama administration goat rope to me