Syria's 'Withdrawal Deals' and the Art of Perpetual Conflict
The story focuses on internal finger-pointing between Syrian troops and Kurdish forces. What's notably absent is the decade-long 'regime change' playbook that carved up Syria, armed proxy groups, and left a power vacuum (and oil fields) ripe for manipulation. Remember when the US military, having previously funded and trained elements within Syrian Kurdish groups for 'counter-terrorism' — (a term
often meaning 'regime change') — abruptly pulled out, leaving them vulnerable to Turkish incursion? It's a familiar pattern: fund, arm, then abandon, ensuring perpetual instability and a pretext for continued foreign intervention. One might wonder how many 'withdrawal deals' are needed before media acknowledges the enduring geopolitical strategy of keeping regions destabilized. These aren't just
'clashes'; they are symptoms of a larger, engineered chaos, where local players are pawns in a very old, very cynical game.