I DO NOT BELIEVE any of that. If McMaster did this on his own, he should be FIRED. Period. But I think Erdogan just heard what he wanted to hear.
“Erdogan’s spokesman... (said) that Washington would no longer “give weapons to the YPG”.”
It has long been the story the the US is just giving the heavy weapons to the other forces in the SDF. But all the public posturing is just a game.
The reality is that Turkey was/is lying about supporting islamists, and deserves to be lied to about our arming of the Kurds.
Disarming the Kurds means turning the area and its people over to Turkish-backed islamists like ISIS and al Queda, or to Iran. I can’t see the US agreeing to actually doing that, so if Erdogan insists on pushing to the breaking point, I think that he will see continually escalating costs, with no fundamental capitulation.