Who will weep for the YPG after the US sells it out?

The echoes of Trump's decision to withdraw ABD troops from Syria continue. It is seen that this unexpected decision has been met with great astonishment in many quarters and that the echoes reflect traces of this astonishment. We also inevitably come across comments that ABD must surely have some other calculation.

After all, the great ABD cannot be doing anything with a simplicity that is visible and that everyone can grasp at first glance.

Yet there is a Trump reality before us, and he seems to have a historical mission of proving what a political subject in his own right can do. Although I cannot say his aim is beneficial, in this respect, that is, because he has brought down the excessive strategic intelligence attributed to state policies, as I have said before, in my view he makes an important contribution to political science.

If it would not be improper, we could even open a heading in politics and international politics of the "return of the subject" type, provided of course that no messianic role is assigned to the return of such a subject…

The performance he shows in writing and playing his own role, instead of playing the role history has written for him, makes him worth watching. In American politics there has probably never been another president who stood out so much with his personal characteristics and performance as opposed to institutions and traditions.

Of course, no one can be sure that the role he plays will in the end produce results beneficial for humanity. There is no chance of us repeating the disappointment that a Louis Bonaparte caused among the revolutionaries of his age, because none of us has had any dream about him. But judging from the meanings attributed to his presence in Syria, disappointments of this kind are being expressed at a high level, especially in pro-Israel circles in his own country, in France, and in circles such as the PKK and YPG. Meanwhile, if DAEŞ also joins the community that is experiencing disappointment, we shall not be at all surprised.

Israel, which is experiencing a never-ending spring with him, as if it had bought all of Trump's policies, for example, is not at all pleased with this decision of Trump's. This displeasure can easily be read in Israel-centered publications.

Alon ben-Mair, one of the important names among the Israel lobbies in America, for example, wrote that Trump's decision to pull his soldiers out of Syria, with this timing, is the best "New Year's gift" that could be given to Putin, Erdoğan and Rouhani. Of course he does this without neglecting to classify this trio as having no differences among themselves and as all being enemies of ABD.

According to him, the ABD presence in Syria is always an important deterrent factor against Iranian expansionism. As long as ABD is there, Iran will have to think several times before taking a step to expand. Of course, these analyses neither remember nor are willing to recall how Iran built and expanded its sphere of influence under ABD's own supervision while ABD was in Iraq.

If he does not remember, let us remind him by asking: at what points has ABD today clashed in Syria with Iran or with the Syrian regime under Iran's protection? The truth is that since the operation it launched against Saddam's invasion of Kuwait, that is, for the last 28 years, whatever ABD has done has served to open Iran's way further and to increase Iran's influence in the region further, and nothing else.

It is evident that today ABD's presence in Syria too has placed no limitation on Iran's influence. If ABD had really wanted to place a limit on Iran's influence, the simplest and easiest thing it would have done, having come as far as Syria, would have been to take part in the efforts for the overthrow of the Assad regime and the establishment of a democratic government to be realized with the participation of the entire Syrian people. Yet instead of supporting those efforts, ABD busied itself with obstructing all the efforts that existed in this direction. The effort it undertook had no effect that brought stability to Syria, stopped Iranian influence, or approached the establishment of a democratic government respectful of human rights. The war with DAEŞ remained a hopeless and fruitless vise whose purpose and content no one could fully understand.

Alon ben-Mair presents as the most important negative of ABD's withdrawal from Syria that it leaves its own allies, that is, the YPG-PYD, defenseless against the butcher of Ankara. With the insolence of his expression, he does not hesitate to say that he regards the YPG-PKK, rather than NATO member Turkey, as ABD's ally. He says it is unacceptable that the YPG-PKK militants, who trusted ABD and fought heroically (!) against DAEŞ, are being put up for sale by ABD. He performs the duty of shedding tears that falls to him in the division of labor behind the traitors who were put up for sale in the end because of their trust in ABD.

Meanwhile the "leader" cadres of the PKK have set out for AB to find another buyer in the face of this sale to which ABD has brought them down. At the doors they knock on, they are trying to persuade them to pressure Trump with a great deal of clamor to dissuade him from his decision.

It looks like, after this hour, no one will succeed in persuading Trump, but after this hour perhaps they may find someone to weep behind them.