There is another problem: unity among the Kurds. Iraqi Kurdistan has long been divided between two rival families and all the different Kurdish regions have their divisions. Syria’s Kurds are still trying to create a statelet they call Rojava but President Assad’s military victories since 2017 have put that in doubt. Nevertheless, Syria’s Kurds still see Rojava as part of a future greater Kurdistan, but having been used as ‘boots on the ground’ by the Western powers to beat Islamic State in Syria, they are once more being abandoned. Yet again they will repeat their old adage: ‘The Kurds have
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