“In the current situation and the chaos we are living in, the only ones who can offer guarantees are the United States or the coalition,” he added in a rare interview from Hasakeh province, which is still under Kurdish control.

Hamo denied that the YPG was receiving support from Iran or Russia, while suggesting a hope that Israel would intervene on behalf of Syria’s Kurds.

“Of course, we consider Israel a powerful state in the region with its own agenda. We hope that the same stance taken by other countries in the region towards certain minorities in Syria will be extended to the Kurds as well,” Hamo said.

Asked if he was referring to Israel’s stance towards the Druze minority last summer - when Israel carried out air strikes on the defence ministry, near the presidential palace in Damascus and on Syrian troops advancing on Druze cities - Hamo said, “of course.”

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    I tried really hard to understand what you’re trying to say, but failed

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      He’s saying the Kurdish militias are not an organic group with popular support, but a proxy militia funded by the West which falls apart the second Western funding and military help dries up.

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      I’m sure you did. Maybe ask the hundreds-of-thousands of dead Iraqi civilians what US & Israeli liberation is like.