In a new podcast posted on youtube I discuss US President Donald Trump’s momentous decision to withdraw from Syria.

It touches on the following points.

• Challenges for the region?
• Is this another “mission accomplished” moment against ISIS, despite the war not being over?
• The US campaign in Syria was a success of the ‘by, with and through’ doctrine.
• Some always supported working with Turkey or the Syrian rebels instead of the YPG, but the US got involved in eastern Syria to stop the ISIS genocide
• How the US sought to distance itself from direct YPG connections
• What happened to the stabilization and Iran leverage concept
• Was this a transactional and temporary relationship?
• Is this a betrayal of US partners?
• Did Russia win?
• America had too many missions in eastern Syria
• This shows how parts of the US government didn’t have a unified mission