[rdcbn]

What owning Northern Syria gives you is control of route to build an oil and natural gas pipeline from Qatar and other the Gulf oil states to economically supply the European energy markets and the control to develop Northern Syria’s substantial but as of yet unexploited oil and gas reserves.

Pretty valuable and an independent Kurd state in North Syria as a de facto American protectorate and client state would have given our political class great power to sell

[wiseprince]

So, own Turkey so you can build an oil pipeline...super! Firstly, that didn’t happen in 10 years. Secondly, I find it ironic that the people who go through great lengths to block Trump from opening up oil reserves locally want to fight a war to do it abroad. The policy is non sense. The goals are simply not worth it. A client Kurdish state? Turkey, in most situations, is fine with the U.S launching from military bases there. Even more so if the U.S chose there side in a civil war. If they want a Kurdish state... they’ll have to fight for it with their own people

[Eurotwit]

That is of course all correct, and most analysts are well aware. Even thought that story goes a bit deeper as well, but
I will leave it there for now.