Trump’s about to fuck himself royally as our allies in Syria - the Syrian Kurds - who would be fucked by Trump’s hasty retreat from Syria - are considering a release of 3,200 IS prisoners and their families.

Top officials of the Syrian Democratic Forces, the Kurdish-led and American-supported militia fighting the Islamic State in eastern Syria, met Wednesday to discuss the option of releasing about 1,100 Islamic State fighters and 2,080 relatives of the group’s members, according to Rami Abdul Rahman, the head of the Syrian Observatory on Human Rights.

Mostapha Bali, the spokesman for the Syrian Democratic Forces, or S.D.F., denied there was any discussion of releasing prisoners from the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL. “Any news coming from such sources is not reliable and is not coming from us,” he said.

But a Western official from the United States-led coalition fighting in Syria, which includes more than a dozen countries, confirmed that such discussions had taken place.

Let that sink in.

Trump thinks he won Syria.

Russia, Assad, and Iran are cheering the decision.

Our allies are like, fuck this.

That Erdogan and Bibi think they’re cool with this speaks volumes to how both are cozying up to Putin while recognizing that Trump’s pulling the rug out from under them.

Bibi thinks that Russia will help Israel in the long term. He’s as delusional as Trump is these days. Erdogan’s an autocrat in waiting, and will play power politics so long as it means getting rid of the Kurdish threat (and this move will help with that goal as Erdogan considers the Kurds a greater threat long term than IS).