A Kurdish senior foreign affairs official, Aldar Xelil, reported that the US has assured Kurdish forces that US troops will remain in the oilfield area between Derik and Terbespiya, in eastern Syria.
This assurance doesn’t seem to be helping the Kurds feel a lot better, however. with Xelil pointing out that this really isn’t going to do anything to prevent the Turkish offensives into northeastern Syria.
The US announced a “pullout” from Syria but ended up just redeploying around the oil, with President Trump saying the oil is the priority. Xelil says the US has no intention of staying anywhere west of Qamilshli, and for the Kurds, that’s a problem.
The US is still in Syria, but there’s about 100 km gap between Syrian-held Syria and US-held oilfield where Turkey and its rebels are not only free to invade Kurdish-held territory, but to push potentially quite deep into Kurdish territory.
That the US presence isn’t helping the Kurds isn’t necessarily an oversight, but rather reflective of the administration’s shifting priorities, which have in Syria become extremely oil-centric.
We have become oil centric . great ay least Trump thinks about the money
That’s right and even these opportunistic looters and ethnic cleaners should have realized it from the start so please tell US again the point of acting human shields for petty US squatters and oil thieves in eastern Syria? The answer is perhaps that both Syria and Russia are ignoring you by now. When the war is over you’ll get nothing (except your leaders that will take whatever they can carry over to the Barzani clan in Iraq. That’s the universal prize for backstabbing, lying and not keeping your word. Ever.
The moment Putin says something to Erdogan and he moves his stinking but effective cutthroat jihadist merc’s south you’re be leaving fast as h*ll and the yankfags even faster. Don’t forget to look over your shoulder on your way out…
Everyone already knew it was about the oil since Daddy Bush’s first foray into Iraq/Kuwait.
The Syrian Kurds are being played out by US….!