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This makes absolutely no sense. The YPG's leadership, is committed, first & foremost, to protecting the Kurdish people from demographic re-engineering, not securing oil/ fighting ISIS. Unless the US protects the Kurds from the Turkish invasion, they'll just cut a deal w/ Damascushttps://twitter.com/JackDetsch_ALM/status/1186070107409309696 …
This new insane plan Trump's people hatched appears to suggest that the Kurds will lose all their population centers in the north to the Turkish invasion, be displaced south to Arab-majority Raqqa & Deir Ezzor to live there, "secure" oil & fight ISIS.pic.twitter.com/35zvi0uv8Y
As far as the leadership of the YPG/SDF is concerned, it is better for the Kurds to live under an authoritarian Baath regime than endure demographic re-engineering - the openly stated goal of the Turkish invasion. This is why they cut the deals with Damascus & Russia.
This quote from a Kurdish official tells you all you need to know "if Turkey invades, he must flee the country with his entire extended family. If the regime returns...he can flee alone, and his family will be safe staying behind." http://bit.ly/2MulLYa From Jan 2019
This certainly puts his bizarre insistence that the SecDef said "New areas are being resettled with Kurds" when 1) no one has any idea what that means and 2) the SecDef did not say that in a new light! https://twitter.com/mustefabali/status/1186030012589314054 …pic.twitter.com/99biKCIAd4
The whole "oil" thing is Lindsey Graham's personal obsession; he thinks Iran will reap a windfall, somehow, from gaining control of these fields. Somehow the SDF is going to sell this oil to ... ?someone? ... so Iran doesn't get it. WHO WOULD THEY EVEN SELL IT TO!?pic.twitter.com/v6fDrhlzkZ
Not even the NYT piece, which I would file under "unconfirmed rumors", mentions this alleged suggestion.
Isn't it a recycled map of the French mandated Syria until 1949? What's so crazy splitting a fake country based on ethnic lines to avoid bloodshed?pic.twitter.com/6ivBdLWtDy
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