British stupidity is about to unleash Islamic State barbarism once again

I know it seems as though this happened very suddenly out of the blue. Actually, all indicators point to how there will have been military, intelligence, and security planning ahead of this for quite some time,” says Burcu Ozcelik of the Royal United Services Institute. “I think behind the scenes was a strategic miscalculation in that the SDF overplayed their hand. They exaggerated the extent to which the United States would continue to back them regardless of the major power dynamic shift in Damascus.”...Given the realpolitik dynamics in play, the best outcome for the statelet, says Ozcelik, may be one of integration, with the SDF turning “from being primarily an armed organisation into one that is a political movement that can speak on behalf of the rights of the Kurdish peoples under their control – and potentially across Syria as well”. But that is the best-case scenario. Given the grotesque history of IS in the region, and the barbarity of the Syrian civil war, the worst case does not bear thinking about.