Well Rojava invited US forces and allowed them to occupy Syria's biggest oil fields in eastern Deir Ezzor province. I'd rather support Assad and his government.
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Given what the other commentor added, I definitely think the support of Syria should be critical, and limited to their anti-imperialist actions. Suppressing the self determination of Kurds should not be supported
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The AANES started with the PYD, the Syrian offshoot of the PKK, a Kurdish nationalist party fighting for some form of national rights (the right to speak their own native languages, the right to celebrate holidays associated with their culture, and in some cases against displacement) with offshoots in every country that includes part of 'Kurdistan' (Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran, IIRC).
The Assad government has been involved in repression of its Kurdish population including everything mentioned parenthetically above as well as efforts to displace Kurdish populations and replace them with Arab ones.
The AANES has other ethnic constituencies but many of them are also minorities in Syria. Minority rights, and in particular cultural rights and self-determination is a big deal in their philosophy and governance structure.
I guess the Assad government neither wants to cede that level of control, of devolution of power to local entities, nor that approach to the various 'national questions' for ethnic minorities in Syria.
Thanks for the answer :)