I don't like Iran, Turkey, Assad, Russia, Israel (as it currently presents itself), Saudi Arabia, the UAE. . . . and our temporary president.
The only group in the region that is worthy of US support is the Syrian Kurds. In a part of the World awash in racism, gender inequality, sectarianism, and economic bitterness and hate, the Kurds are the Shining City on the Hill. Even Reagun would agree.
France and Great Britain have pledged to stand by the Kurds, and France is sending in troops to show they mean more than words. Turkey is more angry with the France than with anyone else. Germany should do the same as France. The US should keep its troops in Kurdish regions, and stop the loose talk of premature withdrawal.
WINNERS AND LOSERS. The US premature withdrawal, proposed but not enacted, will have these predictable consequences:
➤Iran will get it's pipeline to deliver natural gas from the Pars Field to Europe and will become a major player in the Middle East.,Qatar, who sides with its enemy, Saudi Arabia, won't be able to sell its share of Pars natural gas to Europe because Assad won't approve it.
➤Saudi Arabia's Salafi jihadists in Southern Syria, imported from Afghanistan, will not make Syria a Wahhabist State, and the Saudi will be stuck with thousands of angry and murderous fighting men, a threat to Saud stability.
➤Russia's oil sales to Europe will continue apace, and so will its economy, which is dependent on those very sales, as long as its oil holds out.
➤Assad will unify his country, with no remorse . I hate it that he will.
➤The Kurds will resume their lives of poverty and want, to the US' disgrace.
➤The US, for all it's economic and military power, will have egg on its face, and will be reviled by the World for a long time to come. The Ugly American writ large.
➤Iran will get it's pipeline to deliver natural gas from the Pars Field to Europe and will become a major player in the Middle East.,Qatar, who sides with its enemy, Saudi Arabia, won't be able to sell its share of Pars natural gas to Europe because Assad won't approve it.
➤Saudi Arabia's Salafi jihadists in Southern Syria, imported from Afghanistan, will not make Syria a Wahhabist State, and the Saudi will be stuck with thousands of angry and murderous fighting men, a threat to Saud stability.
➤Russia's oil sales to Europe will continue apace, and so will its economy, which is dependent on those very sales, as long as its oil holds out.
➤Assad will unify his country, with no remorse . I hate it that he will.
➤The Kurds will resume their lives of poverty and want, to the US' disgrace.
➤The US, for all it's economic and military power, will have egg on its face, and will be reviled by the World for a long time to come. The Ugly American writ large.
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For a view of winners and losers from Russia, see: What would happen if Trump pulls US forces out of Syria, ,
http://www.rudaw.net/english
Not much difference.
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The Syrian city of Afrin, as the Turks moved through:
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