This title is gold <| sep |> He fucking deserves it . Man is he good . <| sep |> I think that ' s a decent assessment . Political points in the US are picked up by opposing IS , not by picking sides between the rebels and the regime . My impression is that Trump is much more likely to support tolerate the regime than the U . S . has been so far . That probably means the SDF as well , considering Turkey is backing the FSA . So far , the US support of the SDF has been limited partly by domestic politics but also by NATO politics . They can ' t throw unlimited support at a group which is hostile towards another NATO member and the US under Obama was never interested in picking fights with other NATO members . But Trump seems far more volatile and it wouldn ' t surprise me if he doesn ' t care about internal NATO relations as long as he can claim responsibility for defeating IS something that was anyway likely to happen under his presidency .