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
Hva you considered..... That this might have been one of the driving forces for the entire conflict in the first place?
In July 2011 Iran, Iraq and Syria said they planned to sign a contract potentially worth around $6bn to construct a pipeline running from South Pars towards Europe, via these countries and Lebanon and then under the Mediterranean to a European country, with a refinery and related infrastructure in Damascus.[1][6][7][8] In November 2012 the United States dismissed reports that construction had begun on the pipeline, saying that this had been claimed repeatedly and that “it never seems to materialize.”[9] A framework agreement was to be signed in early 2013, with costs now estimated at $10bn;[10] construction plans were delayed by the Syrian Civil War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq%E2%80%93Syria_pipeline