*** We evidently will set on our hands. ***
It’s not like the Kurds weren’t warned that they would get stabbed in the back after being used. If not before, September should have been a wake up call they were being betrayed.
Kurd ne xwedî hevalên lê çiyayan hene
US military are still in Manbij and have made statements they have no intention of withdrawing.
They were “warned” by Erdogan.
My close friend there said exactly that today. Not the first time it was repeated over the past 3 years.
“Kurd ne xwedî hevalên lê çiyayan hene”
The Afrin Canton was never under US protection.
Russians had troops there, the Russians/Assad regime had the ground supply lines to Afrin, and in a formal airspace deconfliction agreement with the USA, Russia and the Syrian regime controlled the airspace over Afrin.
It is the Russians/Assad regime who withdrew protection from Afrin.
Neither Turkey, nor the USA, want to be the first to open fire on the other - it is kind of a point of no return.
The US has troops in Kobani and Hassakah Cantons (and Manbij), and we have control of the airspace there (and provide combat air support as needed). Jihadi militias will not be allowed to run roughshod in Kobani or Hasakah - they will be annihilated.