In light of recent events, the demcon project Rojava will be tested. What will they do now? Will AANES seek independence?
Trump has said the US shouldn't be involved in Syria, will he recall the remaining few thousand US troops from Syria? Or will the neocons convince Trump he can engage in "good" nation-building and create Kurdistan from AANES and northern Iraq? Would SDF go for such a plan since their stated goal is not a Kurdish state, but a multicultural state organised along the lines of democratic confederalism?
You're saying the US is controlling all of north-eastern Syria with 1000 troops while the SDF is relegated to "oil field guards"?
Those statements show such ignorance of the situation I don't know where to begin.
Not all of Rojava is "oil fields", it's only the eastern part of Rojava that has any oil. None of the oil extracted from Syria actually goes to the US. In fact, oil extracted in Rojava was sold to the Syrian government, because the gas and oil pipelines lead to Damascus and to the Mediterranean. You know who has a large part of the contract to extract the oil in Rojava? Sinochem, a Chinese government company. Where are the accusations that China is engaging in imperialism in Syria?
It was in fact the US soldiers who are the "oil field guards", and the US soldiers are tasked with protecting the oil fields. The US has been doing it since the days of ISIS, because they wanted to deny oil access to them.
Few days ago SDF launched an attack on Deir Ez-Zour, the main "stronghold city" in the Deir Ezzour oil fields (under the control of SDF). I much rather that DAANES/SDF control the oil fields, than they be used to bolster HTS rule.