one of them is functioning in the y. p.g. and or of the people ids functioning in northern syria and the p.k. case functioning in southeastern part of turkey but a lot of people say that they're in the ties of them being kurds is what connects the two groups whereas one is fighting isis and one is deemed a terrorist organization is there any merit to that them saying that they're connected surely for the fact that they're kurds well of course not i mean we have multiple parties in the united states of america we can be relating democrats to. conservatives just because of the fact that you know they're both american so that's very logical i believe and you know they all saw themselves repeatedly said that they're not actually. there are two separate entities at the end of the day ok and mattis has also met obviously with president i don't want today and the two expressed commitment to a bilateral relationship what do you think was earning one's primary concern he might have expressed to mattis his primary primary concern has b

told the kurds rename the y p g d s d f so that we can get around the terror designation because the y. p.g. is connected to the people k.k. which we and the turks consider a terror organization so through this proxy the us has established this massive zone of influence they've established a series of defacto bases and i don't think that the reason that they're there has anything in the long run to do with isis isis was simply a pretext for establishing u.s. influence in this area now once the jihadists are defeated the u.s. can do two things and will likely do two things number one try to replace the in syria air base in turkey which the u.s. used to handle its rebel army equip operations in syria with a new base that it controls through the kurds who are the u.s. considers a much more reliable ally then turkey number two and this is most important and most dangerous which is to challenge what the us sees as iranian and shia influence in the area and this started at the our lead border crossing in the town of autonomy for the us first set up troops on the syrian iraqi border and the whole