Lions_of_Rojava

Practically no chance. There's a big level of solidarity between the two sides, and the PKK effectively serves as an emergency backup force during intense moments (see Shingal and Kobane). The revolution in Rojava is based off the model of Democratic Confederalism originally developed by the PKK.

There are several that are very bad.

The first is that this is solely a Kurdish fight to make their own state, after which they will kick out all the Arabs and other people here. There was even a statement by Erdogan recently that he will not tolerate a "Kurdish state" on the border of Turkey. But this is not what their struggle is for. They are not creating another nationalist/religious ethnic state but a localised democracy that works within other frameworks imposed on them. They seek peaceful co-existence with all peoples around them, and want to empower disempowered groups such as women and minorities. This does mean those groups have to be active in that fight themselves too.

The other is confusing the Peshmerga and YPG/Rojava. The Peshmerga is a media army with soldiers that are paid to do Barzanis bidding. They ran away from Shingal mountain after disarming the Yazidi people because they are the "official protectors". Iraqi Kurdistan is a nepotistic corrupt micro-state run by the Barzani family who make themselves rich, build big cities and want to be the next Dubai while their people are poor. The YPG on the other hand, has soldiers that are not paid a wage (only given a small allowance for personal use) and are defending themselves. They have real women soldiers that fight and die besides their male comrades. The female fighters in the Peshmerga are just for show. They do not fight. Iraqi Kurdistan is highly patriarchal whereas Rojava has many strong women.

The last is people calling Rojava communist. This is a slur pushed by Turks on the internet meant to discredit the project here. It is the biggest rubbish pushed by anyone and evidently false after a few minutes on the internet.

Assad is despised. Many people here were tortured under his old regime by his secret police. Many of the people in government where all at some point tortured or had family killed.

But what's important is that Rojava survives. If Assad agrees to the demands to give the Rojava region autonomy (as the administration has asked), they would accept. There's no national flag, anthem, money and so on because they are seeking autonomy - not independence. This fits the model of Democratic Confederalism whereby towns and cities become autonomous from their host state to link up with other places across the border and form a distinct union. This is the strategy that Kurds in Rojava and Turkey (Bakur) are following to free their lands up.

The men take it very very seriously. If someone does something inappropriate, people will very quickly correct them. Women's struggle is at the heart of the revolution and treated as the number 1 issue. They will not brush their teeth in front of women nor take their socks off, they will always sit upright and also treat women as equals/comrades talking to them respectively. I've never seen anything inappropriate.

In civilian society, there is still the traditional families where women are usually stuck in gender roles but there's big progress made there. Before women could not even smoke, now women are getting jobs and participating in the revolution. As you go more into the Rojava system, women are pretty normal and working alongside men with no problems- and there is a good solidarity between them. You should read about the president of Jazira canton. She's a hardcore feminist and anti-capitalist.

Kobane is slowly progressing, and instead of selling Rojava to wealthy millionaires, the administration is trying to work through solidarity organisations around the world with various levels of support. They need much more though.

Turkish hostility cuts deep, whether pressuring the KRG to close the border with Rojava (there's an embargo in Rojava now) trapping the economy tight, allowing IS or other jihadi groups to cross the border unhindered and launch attacks on Rojava, brutality against people here or just plain petty stuff.