Kurdish officials from the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have
believed they were mere days from conquering the village of Baghouz,
the last ISIS-held village in Syria, for months now.
Despite constant upbeat progress on the fight, the SDF appears no closer to taking Baghouz than ever, with officials attributing the failure to the “never-ending” number of civilians that were somehow living within this tiny village, and which the Kurds wanted to evacuate before the final push.
The SDF conceded that they knew there would be some civilians in
Baghouz, but that was tens of thousands of civilians ago. Most were
underground, and there is no sign they’re anywhere near clear of the
area.
12,000 came out of Baghouz to one camp in just a 48 hour span last week,
and some of the civilians at the camp say that there are as many left
in Baghouz as have left, all underground, pouring out in numbers.
Conservative estimates are that there will be thousands more. This is
slowing the Baghouz offensive, but perhaps the bigger problem is that
over 55,000 civilians have been displaced so far, and the remaining
refugee camps are so over-filled and under-funded that there is no idea
what they’re going to do with all those people.
Only a turd would be shocked that the US is fomenting both sides of a conflict.
They won’t be refugees in the same way once the war is over. Then they’ll be displaced people many of whom can go home, or go to a different home more welcoming of their sect.
This problem is all the more reason to end this war. Do they want them all to go to Europe to wait it out, and perhaps after long enough there just to stay in their waiting place? That is how this worked.
Eric Zuesse in a very comprehensive article reports the U.S. stole 40 tons of Syrian gold from the Jihadis. That’s probably what this ongoing farce is all about.
https:// washingtonsblog. com/2019/03/syria-accuses-u-s-stole-40-tons-of-its-gold.html
There’s supposedly another 40 tons hidden in that last IS redoubt, but well enough hidden that the U.S. needs the gold surrendered directly to them. Otherwise, its lost indefinitely.