Kurds declare federal system

[robert99]

Syria conflict: Kurds declare federal system - BBC News

Holy s**t! Wait for the response ...

Seems to be the Kurds desire for Iraq too ...
Kurdistan parliament speaker: ‘We should not fight for a geography that no longer exists’

 

[Second Summer]

Well, it's problematic that they did this more or less unilaterally without consultations or negotiations. But it's also crazy that the Kurds are not represented at the negotiations in Geneva.

 

[robert99]

I expect the Turks will have something to say about this ...
and the US will talk for the Kurds at Geneva. Pentagon chief Ashton Carter praises Kurdish fighters in Syrian Kurdistan (having great big bases in Kurdistan is an incentive)
The Russians leave and this happens, but Putin says Russia can make powerful Syria comeback within hours Putin says Russia can make powerful Syria comeback within hours
... mmm ... Nature abhors a vacuum.