Shit, just realized why the turn in the Syrian conflict seems so uncannily familiar. It rhymes very strongly with the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan in the 80s (which led, among other things, to the Kashmir insurgency). This is not a good rhyme.
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I hope this localized analogy does not indicate a US collapse similar to USSR collapse. I think not. That withdrawal was caused by a desperate attempt to contain an unraveling of empire gracefully (and failing). This is an own-goal by one moron from a position of strength.
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I’m so a product of the 80s it’s not even funny. Age 6-16 is like the only dentist anchor zone.
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They've also been resilient as hell in the face of a hostile regime & Turkish bombing, and their proto-state with Libertarian-Munipalism characteristics fought ISIS to a standstill with little foreign support. Their fighters might be strategically retreating for now. We'll see.
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kurds are a huge label, many kurds are turkish, and many kurds are muslim some of the factions have an ideology which is very left leaning democratic confederalism or some flavour of libertarian socialism. most peoples resolution on it is low AFhttps://www.wikiwand.com/en/Abdullah_%C3%96calan#/Democratic_confederalism …
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