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Hey, that's the same excuse Russians used in Ukraine 2014, yet another proof that Russia and USA are a truly brotherly nations. Quarelsome brothers, but brothers none the less. And 50 years later you will be still using the same excuse? The real reason for occupation of parts of Syria is that...

If you don't consider them american, then why are you occupying them?

And so is occupation of parts of Syria by USA...

No it didn't, Syrians started the mess, with help of Saudia Arabia and Quatar. Nope, direct Russian intervention was in October 2015, by that time ISIL was well beyond it's zenith. Nope, USA started directly supporting YPG more than year before Russia got directly involved, remember battle of...

Very unlikely, Russia is trying to woo Erdogan, so they will avoid war with Turkey He is the spare who trained for an unexciting optometrist career, but then the hair splattered himself in the car accident and he got called back to Syria. He was unable to build up his own powerbase before his...

Erdogan flip-flopped on this issue couple of times, SD people hope he can do it again, not the first time they were terribly wrong about something.

I was thinking, with YPG pulling all of it's troops North, the only forces left in Deir ez-Zor region are former rebel/ISIL tribal militias and with American air support gone, the government forces might be tempted to try again to take the area without any agreement, especialy as their tribal...

This goes back to cold war, when it was crucial to keep Soviets bottled up in the Black Sea, so control of Straits of Bosphorus was essential, not to mention that Turkey and Iran were blocking direct overland access to Middle East. Since the reason for NATO existance is still the same, Turkey...

It was in a military magazine, probably one of the issues I boxed away during the move.

Aren't they supposed to be moved to base in Greece by the next year?

There was that time when he hit them with tarrifs, which in turn dropped the value of turkish lira, over the American they were holding prisoner in order to force extradition of Gülen.

Turkey is not really in any camp. Erdogan has delusions of grandeour and will trade favors with anyone who can aid him in his grand dream of returning Turkey to former glory, but will not commit himself to any camp as that could be seen as submission. It might have something to do with being...

Turkey will use the various ''pro-democracy rebels'' from Afrin and Idlib enclaves as ground troops, supported by Turkish artillery, to bleed Kurds white in the border areas, just like they did during Afrin offensive. Lack of air power would hurt, but since it would be mostly Arab rebels dying...

It was obvious this was going to happen sooner or later, it's not the first time USA (or some other great power) threw a once useful ally under bus.