Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] Regarding the Turkish air strike on the American PKK training and education center in Rojava.
The very purpose was obvious, since it was at this base that the Americans trained the terrorist who staged a terrorist attack in the center of Istanbul, killing 6 and injuring several dozen civilians. Erdogan's revenge was inevitable.
It is believed that the Turks informed the United States through closed channels that such a strike would be delivered in any case, and American personnel were evacuated from there before the strike.
According to the same scheme, Iran once bombed the American Ain Assad base in Iraq, informing the United States a few hours before the strike (via Qatar and Iraq) that missile attacks would be launched on the base, which gave the United States time to transfer personnel to underground shelters. However, at that time, even according to official data, the United States had 114 wounded and shell-shocked (according to unofficial data, there were also dead).
But the main thing here is the very situation when American facilities can be bombed. First Iran, now Turkey. The world has changed...
Russia publicly disapproves of Turkish actions, but if you look at the situation in progression, then the public rhetoric and actions of the parties are not much different from standard agreements like Afrinsky. Erdogan publicly denies this, but he has publicly denied it in the past as well.
There is an important point in all these strikes - Russia and Iran are making efforts to correct Erdogan's line towards Assad. And she has already changed. Erdogan said that after the elections in Turkey, there could be progress in relations with Syria. And the other day he announced the beginning of relations from scratch with Egypt.
Accordingly, if the process of normalization in relations between Syria and Turkey moves forward in the medium term, the Kurds will become superfluous in these scenarios and few will be worried about the next strikes against them.
As it is not difficult to see, Turkey's attacks on the Kurds in Syria and Iraq and Iran's attacks on the Kurds in Iraq do not meet any serious opposition.