YPG might probably put up more resistance given Turkey (and its allies) are planning to attack them at the heart of their "Rojava". Wonder though what the US has to say about any hypothetical Turkish offensive,if there was some secret agreement behind the scenes,how things will be coordinated so US and other forces present in the area will not be targeted.
Its hart of Rojava in their pamflets. Afrin was their most powerful stronghold. They are operating in Afrin since 80s by the grace of Hafez Assad, some ppl dont know how deep is conncetion betwen Assads Baath regime and YPG, Hafez regime was one of their main backers, regime activly participated in formation of YPG, train their fighters, provided weapons, money, and gave them pritty much free reign in Afrin region for recrutment, Apo was hiding in Afrin for some time. Some were sent to camps in Lebanon for training with baath leaning palestinian offshots.
In Afrin they were the most entrecnxhed in the local population then anywhere else in Syria.
As for Hasaka and other regions Les so.. during prottests in Qamisli and fruthetr north, predominat flags were those of FSA. Big number of Kurds north joined rebel brigades, many of them with conservative flavor, like Ahrar al Sham, shit, when ISIS came to the region, they had no problem recruting Kurds from the area. Little of it is known, but main push, the guys who led that offensive against YPG position and later on Kobani, many of them were Kurds. Even ciommander who led the battle was a Kurd. Battalions who entered Kobani first and took almost half of the city in few hours were majority kurdish. Only later, after US intervention, ISIS sent others, Chechens and the rest. Western media has very monolitic potrait of Kurds, man... PKK is a fringe gruop, theitr ideology is on the fringe... YPG is the only actor in Syria beside the regime who uses forceful recruitment. Why, if they are so popular and loved? All rebel gruops operate on volontery prinipal
Like other ppl in ME, they are not monolith. They are not less religous then Arabs for exmpl. But by painting entire ppl with a brush of PKK ideology, you got many misinformed ppl thinkiong all Kurds are some marxist types, socialists. lol. Furst Iraqi jihadi gruop was Ansar al Islam, a kurdish gruop. Still exist. They have a battaklion in Idlib, very capable, their infiltration ops never end well for the regime. I think les then 2 months ago, they overun regime outpost in latakia at dawn, 5 minutes clip, 70 dead... one of the most impressive work Iv seen, regime soldiers never knew what hit them, nor from where...
Who knows. If there is somekind of understanding, well... we certanly will not found out about it soon. Maybe some years later. Even with out something like that leaking out, YPG-US relations are deatoriating, you can sense it by the way YPG propqaganda chanels are operatring, pushing some theories, they are not big fan of Jeffries. Which I get, he was for long ambasador in Turkey and he knows Turks and PKK very well. They cant feed this guy BS like they did with McGurk. He knows what they are very well. This all is McGurks **** up, he fucked up in Syria, he did it in Iraq too. This guy needs to be fired, he got ouplayed so many times and locked the US in a alliance that has no vialibility except if US is planing to stay there indefinetly and defend their little neostalinist protostate. And in process **** up relationship with a NATO ally who is kinda first line of defence forsoutheastern mediterian.