... wasn't about manipulating a news cycle.

The Kurds are just collateral damage.

Does he think he made those Towers safer?

We already know that terrorist are targeting US interests around the world.
What if terrorist start targeting Dolt45's interests around the world, that they
start going after his resorts.

This decision could destroy his "Empire"

Trump must have a property in Turkey.

...because that would indicate an ability to think strategically, rather than impulsively.

There is no ideology, plot, conspiracy involved. The payoff may be convoluted but in the end money lands in Trump pockets. Why do people think the greatest secret in the United States are Trump taxes?

Donald Trump is the king of this for that.

...if your goal is to distract attention from Impeachment, you don't incessantly tweet about it.

Russia did not learn anything in Afghanistan. Genocide and mass murder will not play well gawd knows what will come out of this convoluted mess.

by the orange asshole trying to change the narrative by allowing turkey to comment wholesale genocide upon the Kurds, the orange asshole believed that this will take the onus off of him, but, ironically, it only increased the focus on him and the need to impeach him.

He's obliterated policy from diplomacy to regulation to immigration to health care, he's withdrawn American interest from the world, he's abandoned workers and unions, the rule of law is a shambles. We are dissolving each day. He's like an anti-President in all things American.

he has exhibited that many times. He doesn't give a crap about America or Americans, just money.

Erdogan is an assertive negotiator. In all probability, our self-professed artisan of deals got rolled in a pull-away conversation.