In the past three weeks Donald Trump has used the lives of Iranians and Kurds as bargaining chips to get political consensus for a war against Iran and to help his boy Jolani consolidate power in Damascus and thereby please his regional allies Turkey, Israel, and the Gulf apes at expense of the SDF.
According to reports by SDF insiders, Trump's Syria envoy Tom Barrack, that turtle looking motherfucker, approached the Kurds in Syria with a proposition: join us in a war against Iran and the Shiites, or get attacked by Jolani and the Turks.
The commander of the SDF refused this humiliating offer, saying he's not a mercenary for hire.
According to this version of events that's when the attacks against the Kurds began.
This could be complete bullshit. I don't know. Sinister things happen behind the scenes of diplomacy.
Whether these reports are true can't be confirmed because neither the Western nor Muslim media seem all too interested in covering this story and finding out why Washington decided to end its relationship with the Kurds at this particular moment in time.
But if it is true its implications for the Kurds, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon and all of West Asia are dire.
However or why ever these events transpired, the reality on the ground spells disaster. The pieces for a big war are being set into motion with the ascendance of Jolani in Damascus and the return of ISIS into the regional arena.
Jolani's attacks against the Kurds and the dismantling of the SDF should not be viewed in isolation. At the same time as Washington, Jerusalem, Paris, London and Ankara were making their moves on the Kurds in Syria, they were also busy stirring up riots in Iran, hoping to weaken the soft underbelly of the regime ahead of a premeditated attack in the near future.
The destruction of the Iranian economy preceded these recent protests and should the economy continue to tank the Islamic regime won't be able to contain the nationwide unrest.
Ayatollah Pol Pot is losing his grip on Iranian society so in recent weeks he's been on a killing spree, even bringing in foreign Shiite militias from Iraq and elsewhere to kill Iranian protesters by the thousands.
These Shiite militias are mercenaries unlike the YPG and the Kurds of Syria. They have no problems with killing defenceless protesters in Iran, Iraq, Syria, or anywhere.
They have to be wiped off the Middle East chessboard if the region is to recover any sort of peace, stability, and sanity.
But they still have a valuable role to play because the reemergence of ISIS is now a factual reality and they can serve as a bulwark against its spread throughout the region.
The Middle East chessboard was turned over with the Western, Turkish, and Israeli decision to place radical Sunni Islamists in power in Damascus. They were always going to liberate ISIS prisoners once they felt secure enough in power. And that day has arrived.
On this chessboard the Kurds have always been pawns. Sometimes they became bishops or knights, but never kings. Conquering armies found them useful only up to a point, because they cherished their independence. When the Arabs conquered the area the Kurds did not submit to Islam right away. They fought for centuries from their mountains.
The war scientists and military planners in Washington, London, and Jerusalem have viewed the Kurds in the same way: as useful proxies.
The Kurds in Syria most likely understood from the beginning that their temporary arrangement with the United States would eventually end. If they did not then that's on them. Pawns are always sacrificed. That is the fate of all non-state actors. There aren't permanent alliances even among established states.
But the Kurds still have cards to play. They still have their weapons. Should Washington, Damascus, and Ankara proceed with their genocidal war against them then nothing should be off limits. Washington has a very large and nice consulate in Kurdistan, it's a very easy target. There's also numerous Turkish, Israeli, and Iranian bases in the area that can be attacked.
An all out war won't cost the Kurds alone. They should not go quietly. They should bring the entire region down in flames.
