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Kurds keep the turf they capture, which is a broad beltway over the whole north. ISIS and other beheaders get eliminated. Russia gets access to ports and resources.

You broke the code. The Russians are not doing this for nothing. They aren't Americans.

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Kurds keep the turf they capture, which is a broad beltway over the whole north. ISIS and other beheaders get eliminated. Russia gets access to ports and resources.

You broke the code. The Russians are not doing this for nothing. They aren't Americans.

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I have been thinking that was the deal worked out also. Kurds get their own statelet from Latakia (Assad's homeland) to the border of Iraq. This - the Russians figure - will serve as a buffer from Turkey which supplies the jihadis. The Kurds join Assad and end their rebellion (the Kurds won) and the Assad has to make a deal with the non jihadi free syrian army for some sort of end to hostilities and all the jihadis get killed - which is traditionally how Muslim Brotherhood jihadis have been dealt with by the Assads.