The problem now isn't that the Kurds no longer have any allies; it's that the Americans don't.
The Kurds have now recognized and joined the alliance that really is capable of preserving their own lives and Syria's "territorial sovereignty"-which is precisely what the US, NATO/EU, Israel, the Gulf monarchies, and Turkey, have been trying to destroy for eight years.
This is what Trump's McCain-Republican frenemies are pissed-off at. Led by Lindsey Graham, they're pissed-off at Erdogan-not for killing Kurds, but for disrupting the game which used protection of the Kurds as a "humanitarian" alibi for dividing Syria and overthrowing its government.
The American troops that Trump moved out of the way were not protecting the Kurds from Turkey, they were protecting Turkey from itself-from Erdogan's hubris in overplaying his hand and entering into what at best will be a quagmire of occupation and resistance from Syrian Kurds, and at worst a direct conflict with the Syrian army and its Russian ally, which Erdogan definitely does not want.
But most of all, those US troops were protecting the ongoing, long-term project of state-destruction in the region on behalf of Israel. The splitting off of a Kurdish area and the presence of US troops in it-under the pretext of a protective force, but really as a constant dagger pointed at Damascus and maintaining the threat of US-led regime change-were lynchpins of that project, which was supposed to culminate in a state-destroying military attack on Iran.
The McCain Republicans are pissed-off at Trump for completely upending-perhaps even finally ending!-that project.
The suite of decisions Trump has made, starting with the decision to cancel the strike on Iran, were accompanied by rhetoric that gets him into even more trouble, especially with those McCain Republicans.
"I campaigned on the fact that I was going to bring our soldiers home and bring them home as quickly as possible."
"I held off this fight for almost 3 years, but it is time for us to get out of these ridiculous Endless Wars."
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