Imagine Mosul being under a Baghdad administration under Iran's control and also imagine that it fell into the hands of the Iran-controlled Hashd al-Shaabi. Imagine Turkey being kept away from Mosul in cooperation with the U.S. and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and its Syrian offshoot Democratic Union Party (PYD), that the game in 1926 succeeded once more and that its results could be effective for another century.