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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
But Russia has cut deals with Turkey. Russia will allow ethnic cleansing of the kurdish populated regions. The regime is not a player, they do what Russia tells them.
What about the Arabs, what is better for them or is that immaterial?
are not Kurd Refugees inside Turkey also not returning to this area?
Where do you think 3.5+ million Syrians currently in Turkey came from? Space? Most of them came from the very area that has been under YPG's possession. This is what demographic re-engineering is and it has already been accomplished. Turkey is desperately trying to reverse it.
I completely condemn Turkey's invasion, but this is the inevitable outcome of the YPG leaders' decision that they would rather live alongside an authoritarian Baath regime and foreign powers than alongside Arab democracy.
what Arab democracy?
The revolution.
Confused on this comment. The Baath regime's stated goal with regards to Kurds has always been demographic engineering. Moving Arabs into Kurdish areas, banning language, banning Kurdish names, banning passports etc.
The Arab Belt policy was stopped. Remaining in Syria without basic rights is better than being a refugee in the KRG/an IDP in Raqqa, they reason. I've spoken to many Kurds about the TFSA & they see them no different from ISIS (I think they do differ, but my view doesn't matter)
It still doesn't make sense, the language, citizenship, etc and lack of basic ethnic recognitions were still an issue. Seems like YPG/SDF thinks they'll somehow have a unique treatment from Southern Syria, Idlib, and rebel Aleppo and I still don't understand how they got there.
their military power is greater and more concentrated than in any other areas, so that could be a reason. I think they're counting on cultural rights, but not much else, based on past conversations w/ them. It seems to me most Kurds would prefer Assad over TFSA/ethnic cleansing.
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