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"'We know that we would have to make painful compromises with Moscow and Bashar al-Assad if we go down the road of working with them,' Mazloum Abdi, the SDF's commander-in-chief, wrote in an article for
Foreign Policy on Sunday. '
But if we have to choose between compromises and the genocide of our people, we will surely choose life for our people.'
"The deal—brokered on Sunday between Syria, Russia and the Kurds—hands over the Kurdish-controlled, semi-autonomous border towns of Manbij and Kobani to Damascus, with Syrian state media announcing that Assad's army was moving north 'confront Turkish aggression on Syrian territory.'"
Of course Assad is going to help boot the Turks and ISIS out of Syria. If the Kurds couldn't get help from us, going to Putin was the only other option. They are getting the bejesus bombed out of them.
Trump's decision, though, to let the Turks have their way with the Kurds was not to continue collecting licensing fees on Trump Towers Istanbul. He doesn't own it--just gets payments on the brand name, which is the same as many of his other properties and one property is not going to make him or break him, either way. It may be part of the reason Trump is friendly with Erdogan, though--he no doubt struck up a friendly relationship with Erdogan when the Towers were being conceived/built. All the fat cats smoke cigars at the same club, in a metaphorical sense.
