Amid growing focus on the US quietly establishing military bases across the Middle East and Northern Africa, reports out of the autonomous Syrian Kurdistan region of Rojava say that US workers have begun construction on a new military airbase in Tel Baidar, 40 km west of Hasakeh.
Though the US doesn’t publicly affirm these bases exist, this would be the third fully-working military airbase in Rojava,as the US had previously built bases in Kobane and Rumailan. The bases are largely being used to fly gear to the Kurdish forces, but also could support some smaller military planes.
Legally speaking, that might be an issue, as the White House has been openly trying to get Congress to grant President Trump unilateral authority to establish bases in both Iraq and Syria, but all signs point to them having already been establishing such bases since the last few months of Obama’s term.
Bases in Syria are even more complicated than those in Iraq, as the Syrian government has never given the US permission to have forces inside their country, let alone to start setting up American bases in the territory of a Kurdish faction whose declaration of autonomy likewise came without any formal negotiations with the government.
While officially the Trump Administration is trying to present everything as very “temporary” and focused on defeating ISIS, the reality is that the US seems to be setting down roots with an eye toward a very long-term stay in the country.
Well,soon we can expect Russia build permanent more strategic bases and it would make Syria more volatile.
The thing is that the US invading forces are completely out of touch with reality. First, nobody likes “Americans” around here, not even their “allies” which are limited to Kurds. Certainly not US’s mercenaries of whatever flavour from Al-Qaeda to Al-Nusra. They will all turn against them at the first best opportunity to do so.
Second : A US occupation with no matter how many bases will be completely unsustainable. The eastern part of Syria in question (east of the Russian imposed NFZ) are predominantly Arab, not Kurdish. Thinking that the Arabs will accept being governed by backstabbing and abhorable Kurds is nothing more than a very outdated US pipe-dream. Powerful allies such as Russia, China, Hezbollah and Iranian militias,will make sure the Hezbollah barrack bombing in Lebanon 1982 which killed the official number of some 250 US marines (in reality at least the double) look like a walk in the park. US will be gradually cut off and trapped like they are in Al-Tanf.
Channel 4 get trashed by Aleppo MP Fares Shehabi:
https://www.channel4.com/news/fares-shehabi-the-world-should-stop-meddling-in-syria
The northern parts which are predominantly Kurdish, will be facing the Turks, who have already cut their “Roja”-whatever aspiration in half. Turks are not going to accept any “Kurdistan” and more importantly, since they backstabbed Syria and allied themselves with the US, “israel” and Saudi Barbaria, no assistance will come from that direction and they have lost all chances of becoming an autonomy within Syria.
Those three US airbases are NOTin Kurdistan. They are in Syria. There is no Kurdistan yet, and there may never be if Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and Iran can prevent that. It is the US and Israel against all others pushing the idea of a Kurdistan, as a home to promise their only remaining proxy.
Looks like another gross miscalculation by Kurds… And there goes the neighborhood for any new entity, especially 1 despised by all but 1 of the neighbors… Just more profitable war & chaos for the MIC and loss for every1 else… Especially the U.S. taxpayers…
Can’t believe the Turks are accepting all this.
I assume these illegal bases in the north east of Syria are in preparation for an attack on Iran. What with the bases along Russia’s border where the US rebuilt the Iron Curtain, and in South Korea to attack through the North into China, I think the way these target countries may try to stop America is with nukes.
America will start the war that kills a billion. Even if they don’t fire first.
Just one more no win sure lose situation the Neoconz have engineered.. They’re playing with the big boys now, Russia and Turnkey.. It will be interesting to see how they keep these dreams alive… I suppose it is those bases which have becum their last hope.. But with Russians and Turks bombing right up to the barbed wire perimeter, its hard to see any vigorous action to expand the footprint of this delusion… Will be interesting to watch!
Every single action the US is taking inside Syria is a war crime, and also in violation of the US constitution, US law, Syrian law, international law and the laws of nations, and it also constitutes a crime against humanity!