Paul J. Saunders, Al-Monitor: Why Syria's Kurds can’t count on long-term commitment from Russia
It’s understandable that some Syrian Kurdish fighters worry that Washington will “dump” them once they are no longer useful, and that Russia is feeding their fear to play up its own position. But anyone harboring such worries about the United States should take an equally hard look at Moscow’s past conduct and likely future objectives.
Russia had a long czarist and Soviet engagement with the Kurds. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has long-standing experience with the Kurdish question, having served as Russia’s permanent representative to the United Nations Security Council for 10 years, including during the 2003 US invasion of Iraq and its immediate aftermath. Iraq’s Kurds have been the subject of high-profile international diplomacy since that time.
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WNU Editor: I am sure that the Syrian Kurds know that there is a limit to what Russia can do .... and that the Russian priority is to preserve Assad's Syrian government rather than accommodating Kurdish aspirations for an independent state. But in the short term .... take what Moscow is offering because it will not be there tomorrow.
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"WNU Editor: I am sure that the Syrian Kurds know that there is a limit to what Russia can do .... and that the Russian priority is to preserve Assad's Syrian government rather than accommodating Kurdish aspirations for an independent state. But in the short term .... take what Moscow is offering because it will not be there tomorrow."
Exactly!
But Russia won't dump the Kurds easily, neither in long term, Moscow want to maintain some level of relations, and made the part of mediators between them and Assad regime.
If history give them a chance, Kurds retake their Kurdistan, maybe two state: one socialist, and one capitalist (in Iraq). I hope both democratic.
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