JUST A THOUGHT - ON THE EXPEDIENT EXPENDABILITY OF THE SPONSORED ARMIES THE END..!

How comes? It is said that their no honour amongst thieves.' But is this also the case between the changing and expedient alliances involved in the murderous and brutal war taking place on Syrian soil? Is it really the case that the Russians could not have broached a non-destructive, or less destructive resolution of the Afrin problem? Were they unable to prevail upon the YPG to move out of Afrin, to remove the need for the Turkish Army to have to intervene? Did the Russians even tried? Or is it the case that this machiavellian conflict has morphed into a stage, where the larger picture or wider objectives require the sacrificing or 'degrading' of the YPG? The decimation of its forces and organization? The Syrian, Turkish, Iraqi and Iranian governments do not want a Kurdish powerhouse, autonomous region, a 'Greater Kurdistan' on their shared border. Which is why the YPG pawn, just like the independence seeking Iraqi Kurds before...