Won't be surprised if Russia leaves, having prepared the groundwork for Turkey to take over, solidifying whatever backroom deals they made.
Good for Erdogan, Good for Putin. The only contradiction to this is the Russian base and Russian foreign policy, it can't really stay in a NATO controlled country, so logically Russia has to stay, somewhat reluctantly and goes through the unique Russian diplomacy to calm the situation as I don't think they have the required hardware/personnel there to deal with a full assault by Turkey.
I just don't see how Syria survives much longer without Russia basically being their guardian.
You have no clue what you write. Russia and Turkey are on the opposing sides.
Russia openly accuses Turkey that even if repeadetly asked of their positions (as per 2018 agreement), Turkey didn't said anything that it's own troops are integrated with the Al-Qaeda units in Idlib when the latter attacked the Syrian forces. When the Syrians bomb them, Turkey lost 33 troops and is crying to NATO that was attacked.
Idlib is not Turkish soil, is SYRIAN SOIL. Turkey actively supporting Al-Qaeda and offshoots in there from the Syrian army end the civil war. The same Al-Qaeda from 2001!!!!!!
Turkey today asks for NATO A5 to be triggered dragging everyone to it's own personal invasion to grab territories in Syria. However A5 if it's attacked in it's own soil, not when invading others.
Turkey also has broken the embargo in Libya supporting Saraj even with chemical weapons. Let alone tanks, APC, artillery and troops.
Is now crying that there are Turks in Libya that need to "protect". In addition has signed a Treaty with Saraj (a Turkish born backed by Qatar & Turkey) effectively making Libya (under Saraj) a vassal state. That's something Haftar (an ex Qaddafi general, with US passport, backed by Egypt, Russia, France, Italy, basically everyone). And neither France nor Italy want Turkey on their borders. That agreement also in violation of the Maritime Law and any Sea convention has removed from the map half Greek islands of the Dodekanese cluster claiming a huge swathe of Greek territory (even cuts through half Crete & Rhodes) just for Turkey to make borders with Libya.
Greece is been prepared to go to war for this. Because is like Russia claiming that islands have no EEZ or territorial waters, and have a map taking over the North Sea Oil. (it can through Siberia over the Arctic). How Britain would respond?
And this is ongoing since October, nothing new. Wrote it numerous times here. The problem is British media are either dumb sht or want completely uninformed British population to drag to World War. Like Nazi Germany did in the 1930s. Because the latter attacked Poland because "Poland attacked and killed German troops in Germany" incident. What happens now in Syria when Turkey begs NATO to bomb Syria because it's own troops got attacked by Syria inside Syria when attacking Syrian forces.
Yes is ironic.
