The Yankees’ Footprint on the Banks of the Euphrates

The footprint of the Yankees on the banks of the Euphrates is too prominent and deep to be ignored. The extensive economic interests and American-Israeli geopolitical objectives for being in northeastern Syria have left only one option for local, national, and regional players: either submit to this hellish image of their inevitable future or confront it with every means and on every front.

Mojtaba Khatauni – Journalist:

News of the recent visit by US military officials and commanders to northeastern Syria and the Kurdish region of the country was published, albeit with an apparent lack of desire to attract attention, particularly from the American side. Evidence of this claim can be clearly seen in the limited, controlled, and atypically low-profile coverage, outside the usual American demonstrative frameworks.

The US Special Envoy for Syria and the US Ambassador to Turkey, Tom Barak, and the CENTCOM commander, during their visit to the territories of northeastern Syria, met with Mazloum Abdi – the Commander-in-Chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

This meeting occurred precisely at a time when the flames of tension and conflict between the SDF forces and the forces of the Joulani government (Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham) with Turkish support have been increasingly intensifying, resulting in daily casualties for the involved parties. Local media have reported and documented instances of these bloody clashes around the city of Aleppo and even in its suburbs, such as the “Sheikh Maqsoud” neighborhood.

However, by piecing together the fragments of the complex puzzle of power dynamics in this turbulent region, the issue becomes even more interesting: Trump speaks of his affection for Erdogan; an Israeli minister officially threatens Turkey; Turkey continues its lucrative trade with its Israeli partner; Ocalan, as the leader of Turkish Kurds, theorizes and implements the disarmament of armed opponents; Israel supports the Druze in southern Syria, and Zionist media speak of the “David’s Corridor,” a corridor which is effectively a geopolitical trench that fundamentally negates any possibility of a land connection between the resistance fronts in Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine.

So far, everything seems calculated and precise, except for a few factors: The complexity of power relations and political dependencies in the Kurdish region, especially in Iraq and Syria, keeps alive the possibility of the tables turning against the current plan. And in the north, it seems unlikely that Turkey will trust the calm before the storm and simply tolerate a de facto doubly autonomous Kurdish region on its southern borders.

The footprint of the Yankees on the banks of the Euphrates is too prominent and deep to be ignored. The extensive economic interests and the American-Israeli geopolitical objectives for being in northeastern Syria have left only one option for local, national, and regional players: either submit to this hellish image of their inevitable future, or confront it with every means and on every front.

Source: Quds Newspaper, No. 10761