> [1] https://twitter.com/sojtfoir/status/1175869891305451522 https://twitter.com/sojtfoir/status/1175869891305451522 > [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/

> [1] https://twitter.com/sojtfoir/status/1175869891305451522 https://twitter.com/sojtfoir/status/1175869891305451522 > [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/world/middleeast/turkey-a.. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/world/middleeast/turkey-a.... ("Because of an American counterterrorism partnership with Turkey, Turkish aircraft were given access to a suite of American battlefield intelligence in northeast Syria.") That is related to this: https://twitter.com/hashtag/securitymechanism?src=hashtag_click https://twitter.com/hashtag/securitymechanism?src=hashtag_cl... The agreement was supposed to protect the Kurdish groups from a Turkish offensive by de-escalating the areas that the US had deemed "safe", while providing an umbrella of US control. Trump then disgustingly yanked the umbrella away and let the Turks have at it.