Syria’s Rojava Revolution Is in Grave Danger (Reason magazine)
If the Kurdish-Arab alliance unravels, the U.S. military may decide to directly back Arab tribes as a bulwark against Iran and the Islamic State, according to Nicholas Heras, who has advised the U.S.-led military coalition in Syria and is now senior director for strategy at the nonprofit New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy in Washington. In 2019, when former President Donald Trump wanted to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, the Trump administration considered a strategy of letting the Kurdish forces fall to Turkey and buying off Arab tribes.
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The United States has, directly and indirectly, backed all sides of the fight. Turkey is a NATO ally. Some of the SNA [Syrian National Army] units now attacking Kobane had received weapons and training from the CIA and the U.S. military. (After the Trump administration cut off support, a U.S. official condemned these same factions as “thugs, bandits, and pirates that should be wiped off the face of the earth,” and the Biden administration imposed human rights sanctions.) Meanwhile, several hundred U.S. troops are embedded with the SDF.
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In his Sunday victory speech about the fall of the Assad government, President Joe Biden said that he wanted to support an “independent, sovereign—an independent—independent—I want to say it again—sovereign Syria.” But U.S. policy at the moment seems to be creating the opposite: a Syria chopped up [Balkanization] by foreign powers.
Rojava is also known as the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria.
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“This is an ISIS Victory” – Rojava
Rojava is a confederal autonomy established in 2016 based on the principles of anarchism and gender equality. It is located in northeastern Syria, a region mainly inhabited by Kurds, the largest ethnic group in the world without a state. They are the ones who form the backbone of the armed formations that operate on the side of the Autonomous Administration. Pro-Kurdish formations are also supported (with weapons and training) and financed by the United States.
Amnesty: US-Backed Kurds in Syria Are Running Torture Prisons in Rojava
WHO ARE THE “REBELS” IN SYRIA (HTS)
People mentioned in the Reason article:
Bêrivan Hesen: Executive Council of the Democratic Union Party (PYD). The armed wings of PYD are the People’s Defense Units (YPG) and the Women’s Protection Units.
Meghan Bodette: Kurdish Peace Institute (works with the Wilson Center).
Wilson Center Sponsors: BAE Systems, Coca-Cola, BlackRock, Carnegie Corporation, Hewlett Foundation, ClimateWorks (Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg) Morgan Stanley, Northrop Grumman, etc.
Newlines Institute (front organization):
Nicholas A. Heras: Center for a New American Security, Institute for the Study of War, Jamestown Foundation, National Defense University, American University, Washington Institute for Education and Research
How Muslim group Emgage serves the American empire
The SDF equals the YPG/PKK/Kurds: A timeline of the PKK’s war on Turkey
Reason magazine: Atlas Network document
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