This is the outcome of Trump's lunatic decision to withdraw US troops from northern Syria:
During a six-hour meeting at the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Tuesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin effectively carved up northeastern Syria between themselves, after the abrupt withdrawal of U.S. troops paved the way for a bloody Turkish incursion across the border. The United States was not present at the meeting.What a birthday present Vlad The Impaler got from our supreme leader! It was, after all, his birthday when Trump decided to abandon the Syrian Kurds (who had not abandoned the US troops).
And what is the present the Syrian Kurds in that area might be getting, other than oppression and violence and other such usual stocking stuffers? This:
Analysts say the agreement is death knell for Kurdish autonomy in northeastern Syria. Buoyed by U.S. military backing, the Syrian Kurds had built a fragile democracy comprising self-governing subregions, called Rojava, which up until two weeks ago accounted for about a third of Syria.
Rojava ran on many egalitarian and democratic principles. Those included equal rights for women. But such things cannot stand when the heavyweight dictators are performing their power-dance.