U.S. military aid is fueling big ambitions for Syria’s leftist Kurdish militia
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/us-military-aid-is-fueling-big-ambitions-for-syrias-leftist-kurdish-militia/2017/01/07/6e457866-c79f-11e6-acda-59924caa2450_story.html
Toujours aussi fantastiques les #MSM étasuniens : pour calmer les craintes et des Turcs et des Arabes quant aux gains territoriaux des Kurdes (qui vont au-delà des zones traditionnellement kurdes), les Étasuniens arment des forces comprenant des Arabes dit l’article, mais en même temps les Etasuniens reconnaissent que lesdites forces sont largement dominées par les Kurdes....
To assuage Turkish concerns and avert tensions between Arabs and Kurds, the U.S. military is channeling weapons and ammunition to an umbrella organization called the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which includes Arab fighters as well as the Kurds. The goal, the U.S. military says, is to build an Arab force capable of taking and holding Arab cities such as Raqqa, thereby diluting the influence of the Kurdish fighters.
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U.S. officials acknowledge, however, that the Kurds constitute more than three-quarters of the SDF coalition and are leading the fight on the front lines, making them the biggest beneficiary of U.S. military assistance.