Comments by "Ggoddkkiller" (@ggoddkkiller1342) on "Preston Stewart "
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As a Turkish person i can say this was spot on, some parts could be described with more details. But at least who is who was crystal clear without any political nonsense, thank you! If i explain those overlooked areas:
1- There are at least 2,000 PKK members in YPG, it isn't a claim nor possible connection. Even the commander of SDF Mazloum Kobani is a 'former' PKK member that you can see it yourself by a quick search. Ofc our 'allies' act like Mazloum got divine inspiration and is a completely different person today but Turkey will never ever accept such a nonsense. Only way PKK members can redeem themselves is surrendering to security forces.
2- The offensive isn't led by hts at all, there are reports of large military movements all over the region including Turkish controlled territories as well. And you can actually see better geared SNA troops in some of footage but it seems like they are instructed to not share footage. If i act honest, this looks like we planned this with SNA and rebels knew a lot of intel about government positions, strong points as we shared our intel with them including satellite imagery. So assadists and their allies caught off guard so badly, it doesn't seem like they could stop rebel offensive and most of mid Syria until Raqqa will fall in few days.
3- There are some YPG movements including sending troops into Aleppo, only God knows what they are trying to do. Perhaps they struck a deal with assadists to assume control of some areas. One part was badly lacking in the video that YPG made deals with literally every side in the conflict, sometimes they acted as Russian backed, sometimes US backed, made deals with government forces. They fought against government forces too but they were rare, most of the time they were in alliance with government forces. And assadists certainly would rather leaving control to YPG than SNA as they can reach a deal and gain back those territories later on, while SNA would never do that. The problem rebels won't most likely accept YPG control and engage against them, this movement is happening right now in eastern neighboorhoods of Aleppo i guess we will see how it will turn out tomorrow.
SDF is the largest force in Syria but even they have zero chance against Turkish army as previous operations showed many times. There are a lot of people blaiming us 'acting too aggressive' etc but i think we were too passive. Turkey should had occupied most of Syria in 2014 then this war was long over without causing 10 million people becoming refugees or displaced. Erdogan regime was too scared casualties might reduce their votes so they stayed passive while overall cost of Syrian civil war to Turkey reached hundreds of casualties anyway and at least 300 billion dollars. We aren't a foreign power from 10,000 miles away rather Syria is literally our backyard and everything happening there directly affects us, remember that before throwing your accusations around..
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