I agree, but it's not about defeating the ypg in raw military firepower, for without US and co support they are at the mercy of everybody surrounding them. Problem is, we know the ypg is deliberately protected through diplomacy and militarily by being embedded with US and co personnel, thus Turkey cannot always simply wipe them out as there are risks of attacking 'allies' too. For this reason i'd not prefer to risk and wait for ypg to link up west and east, only for the US and co to place some personnel or US flags in al-Bab. Absolutely every single thing can be expected from the US and co, so imo its better that ypg never links up.
Turkey isn't a US state, and it isn't a EU country either, and a single US / EU soldiers life is worth the same as a single Turkish citizens life that got killed in some act of terror by those that they support. So, I really couldn't care if they are flying the Vatican flag at PKK / PYD / YPG - YPJ bases, one intelligence report on that terrorists are located there = bomb the sh@t out of it... or do you think they wouldn't do the same in a hypothetical situation if it was Turkey supporting terrorists / drug cartels 1-10 km away from the US border in Mexico??
These are ENEMY countries, that need to be taught a lesson that sleeping with with terrorists = death to all military personnel involved in and near Turkey. They can explain to their own citizens why their 'ally' decided to bomb them to smithereens out of the blue, or they can go on a war tantrum... but considering that not using nukes, attacking Turkey it would take Russia (my country) 1.5 years at very heavy cost to obliterate the Turkish air-force, and the land forces will probably still be stuck somewhere in Georgia or in North East region of Turkey, with every damn km costing a lot in lives and equipment... and Navy-wise well, Russia doesn't have one that could counter the Turkish one at this region, and supporting existing ships against Turkish skirmishes, just outside of missile ranges... would be annoyingly difficult. all this and Russia is a stones throw away from Turkey... the US attacker would be much worse off, as such an event will definitely include Russian support to Turkey, and the people they usually attack are much less armed.... there is a saying, you can't run a water mill carrying buckets of water to it... sort of describes this...
Turkey really needs to be accidentally shelling all 'allied' bases that have any YPG elements, flags or patches.. it can officially, politically say 'oops' later....
The US shifted away from Turkiye,they will build up these YPG areas with all the military and equipment necessary,they might even have a base there so,it wont be easy for us to hurt them.
Dont be surprised if they leave the Incirlik base and make a new one in the Kobani ''canton''.
Remember the many times we talked about this,the fvcked up big time.
The whole thing is existential, running away from fighting the US is dumb at best, Today its N.Iraq, N. Syria, tommorow it will be East Turkey, South Turkey, North Iran, Lebanon..... well trained soldiers don't grow on trees, and Turkey has a lot of them, why not use them? After all Turkey is a country of 80 million, with 40 million possible soldiers in an all out war, Iran is of similar proportions with less firepower... do you think any size US or EU attacker will have any chance in hell??
(if you do, then stop watching Rambo films.
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