10-07-2019, 06:50 PM
(10-07-2019, 06:11 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I made a thread a long time ago about how we were playing two different sides at the same time.
We used whoever we could to fight ISIS and ended up enlisting some parties that were enemies with each other.
Something like this was bound to happen eventually.
Do you think the abandonment of the Kurds was/is unavoidable?
Also, a general question for anyone--how is this abandonment, if it goes forward, likely to affect foreign policy in the future? E.g., how might it affect future attempts to develop proxies and alliances in world hot spots?
Related red cap exercise: how might Putin, China or Iran view the US withdrawal from Syria? Strengthening or weakening the US?
Do these questions matter at all to people who just want the US to disentangle itself entirely from the Middle East and/or the Far EAst?
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