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I think this quote from an interview with the YPG/SDF military leader tells us a lot about the love affair between the YPG and the U.S. as well as about the total trust the "leftist" YPG put in U.S. imperialism. (which, in turn, tells us also a lot about those leftists who put trust in the YPG!)
"The voice of Gen. Mazloum Abdi, the Kurdish commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces militia, is tight and controlled as he describes President’s Trump’s decision <https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-administration-plans-to-pull-us-troops-from-syria-immediately-defense-official-says/2018/12/19/4fcf188e-0397-11e9-b5df-5d3874f1ac36_story.html?utm_term=.43208b338888> to withdraw U.S. troops from the country and leave America’s allies to their fate.
“This was something we never expected,” he said somberly in a telephone interview Saturday night from his command headquarters in northeast Syria. “Honestly, until now, everything the Americans told us, they fulfilled, and the same thing for us. . . . So we were surprised and confused. We were not ready for a decision like this.”
*What Trump’s Syria decision means on the front lines of the fight against the Islamic State*
By David Ignatius <https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/david-ignatius/>Columnist December 23 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/what-trumps-syria-decision-means-on-the-front-lines-of-the-fight-against-the-islamic-state/2018/12/23/f4735f9c-06ff-11e9-a3f0-71c95106d96a_story.html?utm_term=.2864448008c6
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