It annoys me when people act like the integration process in Rojava is something that the PYD proposed, and that the current situation is exactly what they wanted. The situation is a compromise that everyone hates, because the alternative involved Kobanî being destroyed forever.

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This isn't the first time he's done this sort of thing - he reduced support to the SDF and greenlit Turkish attacks because Erdogan threatened to inconvenience his hotels in Istanbul.

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Trump is apparently willing to throw the entire Ukraine war because he's worried about fuel prices costing him votes. As well as destroying the sanctions regime that he'd threatened everyone else to comply with, he's witholding advance warnings of missile strikes.

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US economic sanctions: huge humanitarian cost, largely ineffective Economic sanctions on the US: full capitulation within a fortnight

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The Interim Government's approach to Hasakah seems to be to stir up racial tensions. Which sucks, but makes a lot of sense for them strategically. The "Revolutionary Youth"'s counter-strategy appears to be to stir up racial tensions. Which is incredibly stupid.

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