Facts indicating the beginning of the withdrawal of US troops from Syria. According to reports from the Syrian Arab Republic (SAR), the international coalition continued to support the fighting of the Kurdish forces of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the last major stronghold of the Islamic State (IG, banned in the Russian Federation) in Hadzhin (Deir- ez-zor). SDF spokesman Nuri Mahmoud told the Arab media that the Kurds did not officially receive notice from the United States about the withdrawal of American troops.
According to the Internet portal Kurdistan.ru, in the Syrian Kurdish party “Democratic Union” (PYD), the decision of the American leadership was called a betrayal, saying that the United States had "stabbed in the back." The US State Department has not yet commented on the situation around the withdrawal of troops from Syria. But judging by the belligerent statements from Turkey, they are confident that the United States will leave the northern provinces of the SAR in the coming days to allow Ankara to launch the announced attack on the SDF positions along the Syrian-Turkish border. According to Turkish news agency Anadolu, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt авavuşoлуlu during a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo "discussed the decision of the US administration to withdraw troops from Syria." At the same time, Reuters, citing American sources, claims that Washington’s decision on the withdrawal of troops was made following a telephone conversation between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Donald Trump last week. This is hard to believe, since it was the United States that helped and helps the Kurds to strengthen not only their military units, but autonomous power in the territories east of the Euphrates. And now the Americans, with the help of the Kurds, according to Anadolu, control more than a quarter of Syrian territory, where the “11 largest oil fields” are located. These deposits account for 70% of all the oil and gas fields in the SAR. They are a kind of economic key to support separatism in this region. According to Turkish estimates, more than 15 US military bases are concentrated in the territories controlled by Kurdish forces, which supply SDF troops with a total of about 40,000 "bayonets". According to Kurdistan.ru, detachments of Peshmerga-Rozh brigades from among Syrian refugees from Aleppo, as well as Kurdish detachments from Iraq, have been sent to help these forces.
Stanislav Ivanov, a leading researcher at IMEMO RAN, believes that Ankara is unlikely to be able to defeat such a force without suffering heavy losses. Attracting to such an operation "pro-Turkish Free Syrian Army (SSA), as well as militants of radical Islamist groups and Turkomans, also will not save the situation." The United States is well aware of this. But it is beneficial for Washington to draw Ankara into a new war in the north of the SAR to wreak havoc and weaken Damascus and its allies.
Even if the Americans withdraw from the SAR, the Democratic Alliance, which is based on SDF-PYD troops, will be supported by other forces of the international coalition (Britain, France, etc.), as well as by the United States themselves from the territories of their military bases located in Middle East.
“The announced withdrawal of troops from the SAR gave the United States the opportunity, firstly, to significantly reduce military expenditures for conducting military operations, and secondly, the Americans clearly make it clear that by defeating the IS, they free themselves from the duties of restoring the destroyed objects and territories of Syria” - said “NG” military expert Colonel Vladimir Popov. In his opinion, “the US pushes these duties to other countries, including Russia. And here it becomes clear why the United States did not respond to proposals from the Russian Federation made earlier by it to carry out engineering clearance of Raqqah from mines or jointly carry out humanitarian actions in socially tense regions of the SAR. They just don't need it.”
According to the Internet portal Kurdistan.ru, in the Syrian Kurdish party “Democratic Union” (PYD), the decision of the American leadership was called a betrayal, saying that the United States had "stabbed in the back." The US State Department has not yet commented on the situation around the withdrawal of troops from Syria. But judging by the belligerent statements from Turkey, they are confident that the United States will leave the northern provinces of the SAR in the coming days to allow Ankara to launch the announced attack on the SDF positions along the Syrian-Turkish border. According to Turkish news agency Anadolu, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt авavuşoлуlu during a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo "discussed the decision of the US administration to withdraw troops from Syria." At the same time, Reuters, citing American sources, claims that Washington’s decision on the withdrawal of troops was made following a telephone conversation between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Donald Trump last week. This is hard to believe, since it was the United States that helped and helps the Kurds to strengthen not only their military units, but autonomous power in the territories east of the Euphrates. And now the Americans, with the help of the Kurds, according to Anadolu, control more than a quarter of Syrian territory, where the “11 largest oil fields” are located. These deposits account for 70% of all the oil and gas fields in the SAR. They are a kind of economic key to support separatism in this region. According to Turkish estimates, more than 15 US military bases are concentrated in the territories controlled by Kurdish forces, which supply SDF troops with a total of about 40,000 "bayonets". According to Kurdistan.ru, detachments of Peshmerga-Rozh brigades from among Syrian refugees from Aleppo, as well as Kurdish detachments from Iraq, have been sent to help these forces.
Stanislav Ivanov, a leading researcher at IMEMO RAN, believes that Ankara is unlikely to be able to defeat such a force without suffering heavy losses. Attracting to such an operation "pro-Turkish Free Syrian Army (SSA), as well as militants of radical Islamist groups and Turkomans, also will not save the situation." The United States is well aware of this. But it is beneficial for Washington to draw Ankara into a new war in the north of the SAR to wreak havoc and weaken Damascus and its allies.
Even if the Americans withdraw from the SAR, the Democratic Alliance, which is based on SDF-PYD troops, will be supported by other forces of the international coalition (Britain, France, etc.), as well as by the United States themselves from the territories of their military bases located in Middle East.
“The announced withdrawal of troops from the SAR gave the United States the opportunity, firstly, to significantly reduce military expenditures for conducting military operations, and secondly, the Americans clearly make it clear that by defeating the IS, they free themselves from the duties of restoring the destroyed objects and territories of Syria” - said “NG” military expert Colonel Vladimir Popov. In his opinion, “the US pushes these duties to other countries, including Russia. And here it becomes clear why the United States did not respond to proposals from the Russian Federation made earlier by it to carry out engineering clearance of Raqqah from mines or jointly carry out humanitarian actions in socially tense regions of the SAR. They just don't need it.”
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