The US will provide heavy weapons to Syrian Kurds

On the eve of Erdogan's visit to the United States, when he meets with new President Trump, the White House has authorized a supply of heavy weapons for Syrian Kurds. The aim is to conquer and subdue the city of Raqqa, an objective considered essential by the Pentagon to defeat the forces of the caliphate. So the US military strategy, despite the change at the top of the state, does not change: what is happening with Obama, continues with Trump, the Kurds are still identified as a key element for fighting on the ground to counter the Islamic state ; On the other hand, the only alternative was to deploy American troops directly into the combat theater. As far as relations with Turkey are concerned, this decision is likely to undermine relations between the two states, as the supply of heavy weapons is targeted at Kurdish-Syrian militias, which Ankara considers to be terrorists, like the Islamic State itself. The issue is well known, Turkey fears the birth of a Kurdish state on its borders and has not hesitated to use arms, often in agreement with Assad and the Russians, just against the fighters that the White House has decided to supply and which are Have always been tied to a close relationship with the United States. In the passage of power between Obama and Trump, there has been some kind of loosening of American interest in the Syrian question, which also involved support for the Kurds; This has led to greater freedom of action by Syria, Russia and Turkey, against Kurdish fighters with anti-Syrian Kurdish militant initiatives, which have intensified and seemed favored by the declarations that the new American president had made in the electoral campaign And which led to a gradual detachment of the US from international politics; So it was not: Trump's intentions collided with national interests and the necessary grip on the United States of the most delicate diplomatic scenarios. That with the Kurds is an alliance that goes to Bush, when Iraqi Kurds were decisive for Saddam Hussein's defeat. The impression is that American trust continues, also thanks to the military results obtained by the Kurdish militia, who have proven themselves to be trustworthy and confident in military affiliation. Trump's choice expresses the need to create a precedent for Turkey, which is also the continuation of his predecessor's policy, and which removes Erdogan's hopes of bringing the United States back to the Kurdish question, which the Turkish President Believes the most important for his country and his government. The US official statements about the matter have become descriptive and circumstantial and do not even seem sufficient to justify the fact that the White House had made no official statement to Ankara of the willingness to supply the Kurds who could probably use These armaments, as well as against the caliphate, also to defend themselves against the attacks of the Turkish army. With this decision Trump conquers Raqqa, the stronghold of the Islamic State, in the face of relations with Turkey, both to defeat the caliphate in places where it still exercises its sovereignty, and to abide by this merit, both to offset Russian politics, much Active in Syria. With actions in the Syrian conflict, Moscow has once again become a major player, coming from international isolation to become a protagonist and has progressively gained the scene of the Syrian war with a commitment to justify the much-respected international significance. Though Trump's direction seems to give rise to these Russian aspirations, the organization of the American government is structured so as not to be univocal and aligned with its most important institutional figure but is capable of pervasing a wide range of interests capable of Represent and put into practice their points of view. Thus, it is a substantial part of diplomacy in agreement with the military, they preferred to sacrifice, at least for the moment, US relations with Turkey, for the defeat of the Islamic state, through the support of Kurdish fighters. This is a precedent that can not easily be defeated in the case of the Syrian Kurds requesting the White House and the Pentagon to support the aspirations of the Kurdish people. Just what Turkey is fighting to do.