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Surely, the YPG leadership claims that Turkey is "its most dangerous
enemy". They are an Öcalan outfit so this is not particularly
surprising. They always find an excuse to ally themselves with much
worse enemies like U.S. imperialism and now Assad and Russian
imperialism. They have run Eastern Syria with the help of the U.S. and
oppressed one million Arabs living there. Unsurprisingly they are hated
by the vast majority of the Syrian people.
The YPG leadership has led the Kurds in a devastating cul-de-sac by the
silly nationalist policy where they offer themselves as mercenaries for
bigger reactionary powers.
The so-called “Syrian National Army” (or “Turkish FSA”) also claims that
they only ally themselves with Turkey in order to liberate the oppressed
Arab brothers and sisters. Now they will feel confirmed since the
alliance between Assad and the YPG has become official.
For Marxists, the main issue is not how one group ideologically
justifies its moves but which interests it serves objectively.
The SNA objectively serve the interests of the reactionary Turkish
state. The YPG objectively did serve U.S. imperialism in the past and,
after being dumped by Washington, they now serve Assad and Russian
imperialism.
All this is not surprising and has been analyzed and predicted since long.
It is tragic that self-proclaimed “socialists” like “Green Left Weekly”
(and various others) serve the PYD/YPG as uncritical cheerleaders – not
only objectively but also subjectively. There is a famous saying in
German language: “/It grows together, what belongs together/”. The
alliance of the YPG with Trump, Assad and Putin is true to their nature.
When Chris Slee and the “Green Left Weekly” defend and justify this
reactionary policy of the YPG, they also join these shameful alliances.
Don’t you think that at least now it is time to critical examine your
blind support for the PYD/YPG policy?!
Am 14.10.2019 um 21:40 schrieb Chris Slee:
It is not that the PYD is "nearer to the Assad regime than the Syrian
people". The alliance with Assad is a desperate measure against the
Turkish invasion.
The PYD has always regarded the Turkish state as its most dangerous
enemy. Turkey has the strongest army in the Middle East, apart from
Israel. This army is permeated by a Turkish nationalist ideology that
is hostile to Kurdish aspirations. It has a history of massacres
against the Kurdish people inside Turkey.
When Turkey started helping the Syrian rebels, it used aid as a means
of coopting many of them into its war against Rojava. This led the
PYD to distrust the rebel movement.
The invasion of Afrin showed the PYD's fear of Turkey was justified.
This has been confirmed once again by the invasion of northeastern Syria.
Chis Slee
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This development is hardly surprising. For every sober observer it was
clear that the PYD/YPG leadership was always nearer to the Assad regime
than the Syrian people. (See e.g. our essay more than year ago (chapter
“Kurdish YPG/SDF: Mercenaries of many Masters”):
https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa-and-middle-east/syria-towards-the-final-battle-in-idlib/)
Shamefully, all this did not and will not stop many so-called
“left-wing” groups to cheer the PYD/YPG leadership!
The justification of the YPG is particular cynical: “Both of them are
dirty but Erdogan and his ISIS are dirtier.” It might be true that Assad
treats the YPG better than Erdogan and ISIS. But Assad certainly has
slaughtered many more civilians than the reactionary forces of Erdogan
and ISIS combined together. (See e.g. Syria: Who is Responsible for the
Civilian Death Toll from March 2011 to September 2018?
https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa-and-middle-east/syria-who-is-responsible-for-the-civilian-death-toll-from-march-2011-to-september-2018/)
Am 14.10.2019 um 04:23 schrieb Chris Slee via Marxism:
> Both of them are dirty,” he said, “but Erdogan and his ISIS are
dirtier.” '
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