The International Crisis Group has published a lengthy statement in defense of the illegitimate U.S. military presence in northeastern Syria. Posted Nov. 25, the statement is headlined, “The SDF Seeks a Path Toward Durable Stability in North East Syria.” Lord Mark Malloch-Brown,who is now in the cross-hairs for his decades-long history of running election fraud operations in several countries including in the U.S. 2020 election, is a co-chair of the board of the ICG.
The ICG report states, “A sudden U.S troop pull-out from northeast Syria could prompt a humanitarian crisis, an Islamic State resurgence and renewed conflict between Turkey and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), especially its Kurdish component.” Therefore, “The U.S. should commit to a gradual withdrawal that protects civilians.”
In the next paragraph, the ICG report claims that what it describes as the recent “lull” in fighting may turn out to be the “calm before the storm.” This is why “the residents of north-eastern Syria, where the U.S. still has several hundred troops on the ground, are watching the current U.S. transition with particular trepidation. A new shift in U.S. policy resulting in a precipitous troop pull-out from the area, they fear, could unleash another round of conflict, as competing forces scramble for advantage, causing a new humanitarian crisis of displacement and potentially breathing life into the Islamic State’s (ISIS) insurgency. In particular, it could provoke renewed conflict between the U.S.’s local partner in the fight against ISIS, the Syrian Democratic Forces, and Turkey.”
