I’m young enough to not remember when the Islamic Arab Muslims of Iran were unhappy when outside leadership was imposed upon them without tribal approval.
I was impressed with their use of intelligence resources to target and coordinate attacks n incursions which would result in causing the most destruction to the assets of the regimes military ability to respond.
Kurdish fighters are not new to guerrilla conflict, they’ve been refining it for a few thousand years and used it quite effectively in helping the Soviet Union decide to leave Afghanistan, but the way the Kurds find themselves able to weigh into the conflict as a religiously political force may be indicative of the mindset of the People.
That being said, I make note of one thing; As I watched the clip, I was prone to simply accept what the gentleman was saying as truth, without taking any notice of the Asian slant to his eye… then I remembered that there are a lot of Chinese, and not many of them are unemployed.