They're covering your oil Slow Dug, keeping the Russians and Iranians away from it.
You should be fist pumping your ass off, but instead you just choose to be dumb, as usual.
Sad
how is any of this positive either in the short or long terms
It's positive in the sense that U.S. troops are out of the middle of a conflict that has been going on for decades between Turkey and the Kurds. If the Kurds had just left well enough alone this probably wouldn't have happened but elements within the Kurdish movement still aspire to annex and control parts of Turkey.
The fact that LibBot Nation is freaking out because Russia sorta controls a sliver of sand inside the borders of it's long term ally Syria (a sovereign nation, remember?) is comical on every possibly level.
Also, just continue to gloss over the 3.5 million Syrians displaced into Turkey.