Sanctions Lifted, PKK Disbands, and the Quiet Oil Play in Syria

In a flurry of coordinated geopolitical maneuvers, the United States has lifted key sanctions on Syria while positioning itself as the broker in a historic normalization process between Syria and Israel. At the same time, Turkey’s Erdogan is getting a trade-off, with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) vowing to disband, ending a decades-long insurgency. Not exactly peace, it’s a solid and very layered quid pro quo in a complicated regional alignment game.It was a pretty tidy sequence of events. The PKK’s sudden dissolution hands…