Valdai Club

Support for Syrian Kurds and simultaneous desire to maintain relations with Turkey puts the United States in an extremely difficult position, Valdai Club experts believe. This duality will lead to the situation that instead of fighting against ISIS in Syria, Kurds and pro-Turkish forces will continue to fight against each other.

It is useless to hold talks with the Americans. But we try at least to neutralize them, because the Americans put a spoke in the wheel - in fact they are not the participants at the process, but try to disrupt everything, - the expert said. – It is impossible to alter our Western partners, and we need to understand it. Russia will always be subject to criticism from their side, no matter what it is doing. But this does not mean that Russia should not act in the interests to stop this war.

Tired of waiting for the loyalty of the European leaders, Ankara actively began to study possible membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). It is obvious that Turkey's membership in the SCO will bother the West and Turkey's NATO allies.

Raqqa’s seizure could create new problems for the Kurds. For them is more important to lift the blockade of the Afrin Canton in the western part Syria.