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To: rintintin

The Syrians have stepped up to defend the Kurds.
No one wants to mention that. Maybe the media doesn’t allow them to.

That is a long=lasting solution, unlike our support.


4 posted on 10/20/2019 7:44:55 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: mrsmith
"The Syrians have stepped up to defend the Kurds SYRIANS>".

I don't understand how people became so obsessed with the Syrian Kurds being such heroes that it was the Holy Duty of the USA to be the guarantor of Rojava. Reuniting with Syria, with some level of regional autonomy and authority well short of an independent nation state, is the best realistic outcome the SYRIAN Kurds could possibly have realized.

16 posted on 10/20/2019 8:22:24 PM PDT by ETCM
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Yes, President Trump is upsetting the status quo and setting the stage for Syria to reoccupy Northern Syria as part of Syria which the US has been opposing

One potential and plausible reason for US opposition is kind of disturbing.

The entire rise of ISIS, supported in large part by President Obama and a Qatar/Saudi alliance, was intended to take control of that region away from Assad and place it under an ISIS Islamic proxy government controlled by members of the Qatar/Saudi alliance so Qatar could run oil and natural gas pipelines through Syria to directly and cheaply supply the EU with natural gas and oil which would break the Russian near monopoly on natural gas supply to Europe

Qatar has huge natural gas reserves but not as much in the way of oil reserves and the pipeline is the only economical means of transporting huge amounts of gas to the EU markets

Natural gas sales to Europe is the primary lifeline supporting the Russian economy at the moment and it’s loss would be near fatal to Russia’s economy. Preventing the building of a pipeline through ISIS controller Syria is the reason Putin was forced to intervene in Syria. He had no choice in the matter as the Russian economy was at risk

Trump successfully pushed the defeat of ISIS far faster than expected and is in a position to determine the post conflict status of the region.

His success also left the US backed Kurds in control of the critical disputed region in Syria.

Just because Qatar/Saudi backed ISIS failed to win control does mean they have given up on their goal and the American victory has fortuitously left the Kurds in de facto control of the region which is precisely what the pipeline faction were trying to accomplish with ISIS.

If they can back an independent Kurdish state that is aligned with their desires then they will have accomplished their goals in Syria despite the defeat of their ISIS proxy terror insurgents because the Kurds are now in the position where they hoped ISIS would be

Trumps pull out from Syria and ceding the region back to Assad’s control destroys the ambitions of those who wanted to take it from Assad to control oil supply lines to Europe

This is why there is such an outcry about Trumps policy in Syria. Those making the noise could care less what happens to the Kurds snd they were completely silent when ISIS was committing heinous war crimes and acts of genocide against the Kurds

23 posted on 10/21/2019 3:42:47 AM PDT by rdcbn ( Referentia)
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