I can't believe these assholes.

Fuck Turkey. Their motivation and allegiances are once again laid bare.

with force, I think things will quickly devolve into utter chaos in that whole region.
Turkey is the linchpin that has now been removed from the grenade...

The Saudis will come from the south up to Raqqa and the Turks down from the north to Aleppo and then to Raqqa. Daesh will put up no opposition to them, since they are simply Turkish and Saudis proxies.
The Iranians will have none of this, IMO. They will come across Iraq to meet the challenge under Russian air cover. Won't be a bit surprised to see Kharg Island and Ras Tanura up flames with a month or so.

We are probably a couple days away from The Great Middle Eastern War.

be right about being 'a couple of days away from The Great Middle Eastern War'.

The US needs to make it crystal clear to both Turkey and Saudi Arabia that we will disinterest ourselves in their fate. They may well be left in ruins, but they're not going to take us down with them.

Since Russia's pretty indiscriminate in its bombardment. Consider Groznyi, with all the same rhetoric.

And the justification that it was better for a 1000 civilians to die instead of 1 Russian soldier. Apply this to Assad's troops, and, well ... (Yes, this was published in an article cowritten by one of Putin's top advisors years ago, the other writer being Strelnikov, the former military leader of a large chunk of the DNR's forces in the Donbas.)


Then again, it might result in fewer deaths. I suspect Erdogan would be quite content with the Syrian Kurd's under Assad's heel as they were before, persecuted and oppressed but most importantly, powerless. The question is, Will Turkey continue to bombard once the area's taken over by Syrian army forces?

and removal from NATO would impress the Turks if they've actually have gone of the reservation rather than just playing their part on the Grand Chessboard.