On Wednesday, Mr Trump confirmed it by announcing that he will pull all US troops out of Syria within 30 days. Indeed, a principal role of the US forces was to deter Turkey from attacking the Kurds, because Turkey, at war with its own big Kurdish minority, strongly opposed the Syrian Kurds' ambition for independence. Deprived of US air support, the Syrian Kurds have little hope of resisting a Turkish invasion. For the Syrian Kurds, reeling from the American betrayal, the urgent, unavoidable question has become: would you rather be conquered by the Turks or by Assad? It's therefore possible that he will make a deal with the Syrian Kurds to keep the region in Syrian hands.

Source: Bangkok Post December 22, 2018 22:41 UTC