Erdoğan: In this process, I hereby declare that if our soldiers at the Observation Points or elsewhere suffer the slightest damage, we will hit the regime forces EVERYWHERE without being bound by Idlib and the Sochi Memorandum.

Yeah fuck millions of Syrians.

"which will cause more death and more refugees."

Literally what Russia and SAA is causing on the ground today.

If Turkey stepped in years ago you would be calling her an imperialist power hellbent on neo-Ottoman glory.

There is literally nowhere else to go. Strategy is to stop the fighting otherwise millions more will come to Turkey, how is that so hard to understand?

There is no option or eventuality of Turkey removing itself from Syria and washing her hands of it without after-effects. 4 million Syrians in Turkey prevents that, 1 million Syrians on the Turkish border demanding entry due to SAA advances prevents that, the 2 million more in Idlib that have yet to depart or have already started to move towards Turkey slowly prevent that.

I understand you and other commentators here clearly; you do not care one bit about what happens to Turkey in fact you want to see it punished and harmed, you also do not care one bit about the millions of civilians in Idlib who are afraid of the SAA and facing persecution due to living in rebel territory for years, you also do not give a crap about the aspirations of the millions of Syrian citizens in Turkey whether if they want to return home one day etc.

But the majority of users not having these priorities does not make them magically disappear just because they wish it to overlook them.

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