President Donald Trump has betrayed America's allies, damaged Turkish-American relations and potentially created the conditions for a return of ISIS.
Any dramatic military action brings with it many uncertainties. Yet the current offensive launched by the Turks against the Syrian Kurds will have dire consequences that the world should know full well.
Instead, it is Kurdish civilians who will suffer the most, as Erdogan tries to remove them from the border areas, as he did in the Afrin region of Syria in 2018.President Bashar al-Assad's hand will be strengthened against the Syrian Kurds. The Syrian regime, along with its Russian and Iranian allies, had already re-established physical control over most of the country, save for Idlib province in the north and the regions controlled by Kurdish and American forces in the east.
Pro-Turkish Syrian fighters gather near the town of Azaz in Syria's northern Aleppo province as they prepare to take part in an offensive against Kurdish-controlled areas in northeastern Syria launched by the Turkish military, on October 10.Also, the future of 12,000 ISIS fighters and their 40,000 dependent women and children being held by the Syrian Kurds is also in doubt.
Trump's statement gently admonishing the Turks mentioned the need to protect civilians and highlighted the Christians yet never mentioned the Kurds. As a result, we should not be surprised that the Kurds, who have already lost as many as 11,000 fighters in their war against ISIS, will not be accommodating to American wishes.
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