The Kurds will learn that Assad and the Russians are like the U.S. - friends of convenience, that is friends to the Kurds while it is convenient to Assad and/or Russia, but that will end once being friends to the Kurds is no longer needed. The Kurds will get “protection” from Assad, until Turkey is out of the picture in Syria and Assad can go back to oppressing them on his side of the border.
The winners among the Kurds will be the most radical elements, as more moderate leaders are disgraced.
The PKK did not come out of a vacuum of true grievances.
Go back to oppress them? When were they oppressed?