An increasingly complex conflict is emerging in the ruins of Bashar al-Assad’s fallen Syrian regime, pitting an American-backed force against a proxy that’s funded by a major U.S. ally.
The Syrian National Army (SNA), backed by NATO member Turkey, is locked into a conflict in northern Syria with the U.S.-backed Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The situation has only escalated, with the Turkish Defense Ministry denying talks of a ceasefire deal between the groups, contradicting the Department of State’s announcement of the continuation of the temporary peace brokered Dec. 10, according to Reuters. (RELATED: Nobody In The Biden Admin Wants To Explain How 1,100 More US Troops Appeared In Syria — Or If The President Knew)
The situation puts the American foreign policy establishment in a unique bind, where Washington ends up directly, and indirectly supporting opposing…
