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Source: https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/the-lessons-of-betrayal-in-northern-syria/
Lessons from the U.S. Withdrawal in Syria
.(Israel Hayom) Dr. Jonathan Spyer - If a Turkish invasion of Kurdish-controlled northeast Syria is launched, this will likely deliver the area into the hands of the Assad regime and its Iranian allies. The Syrian Kurds, if faced with a choice between Assad or the Sunni jihadi forces currently fighting under the Turkish flag, will choose Assad. He and the Iranians will suppress all independent Kurdish political and cultural activity, but they will not carry out wholesale ethnic cleansing of Kurdish populations. The Turks and their Sunni Islamist allies cleansed 200,000 Kurds from their homes in the Afrin Kurdish enclave, which Turkey destroyed in January 2018. The U.S. is not interested in heading an alliance of regional forces against Iranian expansionism or Sunni political Islam. Rather, it is in the business of managing imperial decline. The writer is director of the Middle East Center for Reporting and Analysis