With America’s own war in Syria vague in both scope and end-game, they’ve been eager to amass allies that seem potentially useful toward some talking point or other. In having done so, however, they’ve picked up a motley crew of “US-backed” groups that have wildly different goals.
That’s been a recurring problem, but became dramatically moreso this past week, when US-backed Turkey invaded northern Syria, and brought with it a US-backed rebel bloc that includes part of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and the Islamist Ahrar al-Sham. Within 24-hours, both quickly got into a fight with the Kurdish YPG, who is also US-backed, putting three US allies in direct conflict.
US officials have been quick to complain about the matter, arguing that fighting is “unacceptable” and that the battlefield in this area of north Syria along the Euphrates River is “getting too crowded,” but such factions were at odds from the start, making the conflicts only a matter of time.
Indeed, throughout the US war in Syria, they’ve been backing the Kurdish YPG despite explicit warnings from Turkey that it would lead to exactly what it led to, Turkish intervention to stop the Kurds from expanding further west. Turkey was very public about the Euphrates River being a “red line,” and invaded almost immediately after the Kurds captured their first city on the other side of the river.
The US calls for everyone to just focus on ISIS rings extremely hollow, because while all of these factions got into proximity with one another by taking ISIS territory (largely with the help of the US), the juiciest plums in the area are no longer in ISIS’ hands, and the fight against ISIS was always going to be followed up immediately with this fight.
Regardless of the details, this has been the plan from the beginning. The “beginning” being an arguable point but the plan was to put the entire ME into hot turmoil resulting in the complete destabilization of stable and relatively stable societies. The Israel-Firtsers in the US government found a tool (Bush the Lesser) they could manipulate and control (mostly) and went to work – with the ignorant and lazy compliance of the American people. What we see now in the ME was/is intentional – for the benefit of Israel. And the American people will end up paying in the end – in spades. And regardless of what happens on Nov. 8th, it will not get better. So, buckle-up kiddies, cause this is not going to end well.
Whipping up Kurd nationalist sentiment in an effort to Balkanize the region was a stupid idea to begin with.
“With America’s own war in Syria vague in both scope and end-game,” (it’s only vague to those who have not heard of the Military-Industrial Complex).