When it comes to Iraq and Syria, we can talk about territorial integrity only in a “literal sense.” There is no way out other than facing the facts. 

The fact before us is that we are witnessing a period proceeding in the same path once drawn by the George W. Bush Administration’s Vice President Dick Cheney and the then-US Deputy Secretary of Defence, Paul Wolfowitz. We are talking about an unchanging plan followed by the seemingly different Obama and Trump Administrations: The United States is dividing Iraq and Syria into fragments!
Prof. Dr. Nurşin Ateşoğlu Güney is a prominent academician, following developments in the Middle East with a focus on Washington. It is noteworthy that she evaluates current circumstances as the “natural outcome of an already initiated plan” and clearly describes the process in TV shows.  
This was exactly the plan of the US “deep state”, when they began the Iraqi occupation on the basis of a fabricated lie; they would later admit their crime. But, mind you; Republican Trump, who replaced Democrat Obama, shuffled off all his staff except for the Iraq-Syria team. The person called McGurk, still holds his job…