[Fhios]

Eventually there will be stress from a secular Syria/Russia alliance and the Islamic push from Turkey, Iraq and Iran.

The Syria/Russia alliance will have a satellite state in Lebanon. Iran will have one in Iraq and Turkey may subsume a piece of its own out of Iraq.

Turkey is a faithless ally. That’s part of the formula.

Just thank the stars that Egypt managed to recover from Obama’s Arab spring.

[silverleaf]

Egypt seems to be preoccupied helping the Saudis in Yemen
But we can probably assume the leadership supports the Russian goals in Syria, if not so much the Iranians

The Turks are flying under the radar here about their murky role in supporting the US Saudi Arabia, ISIS and al Qaeda ( aka the coalition) in this mess, and what they hope to achieve

I am reading that Erdogan is starting to rule more like Bashir Al Assad than is Bashir Al Assad