The US has abandoned its Kurdish allies—who were battling enemies that no other nation wanted to face—leaving civilians exposed and ISIS extremists free to regroup.
How good of an assessment would be to think that as an attempt to keep Turkey and Syria from exploding, US is attempting to freeze the region chaos? The Board of Peace is thought to manage the region until it will break again, it is a terrible deal for kurds and SDF, but can it be seen like this?
Iram, thank-you for this. On Guerre and Shalom substack, I have published an urgent appeal on this matter: https://danielclarkeserret.substack.com/p/halt-the-genocide-of-the-kurds-in?r=2bk821
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The Kurds weren’t betrayed.
They were decommissioned.
They functioned as a containment interface holding territory, prisoners, and moral risk that Western states didn’t want to internalize.
Once that interface stopped fitting the new strategic map, it was removed.
What followed wasn’t a policy failure. It was an unassigned function: detention, control, and legitimacy with no owner.
That vacuum is what ISIS exploits every time.
How good of an assessment would be to think that as an attempt to keep Turkey and Syria from exploding, US is attempting to freeze the region chaos? The Board of Peace is thought to manage the region until it will break again, it is a terrible deal for kurds and SDF, but can it be seen like this?