| Protecting clients (YPG are some sort of Communists, or were, as was President Putin long ago), throwing a spanner in the works, speaking up for a useful anti-ISIS ally? So many possiblities! |
"We support the participation of a wide circle of opposition forces, which represent the Syrian people, in the Syrian negotiating process. The Kurds, certainly, must not be excluded from this process." Meshkov was quoted by the Russian news agency RIA.
The Saudi government recently initiated talks among various Syrian groups fighting the regime of
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Terror of Aleppo ...
The Syrian Kurdish Peoples Protection Units (YPG) was not invited, nor was the newly established Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
Shortly after this snub by Riyadh the SDF formed its own political wing.
The YPG has been the most effective ground force against ISIS in Syria and has enjoyed close US air support.
Since the downing of a Russian jet by
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
last month there have been reports of Russian military support to the YPG as well.