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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
The entire world has known for years Turkey was going to step over the border into Syria. They've got previous form in doing just that!
This whole messy situation is the result of a lot of political decisions going back decades.
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Some may have suspected that Erdogan would do something like this but I don't think anyone knew he was going to do it. Certainly the US troops on the ground in Syria and the brass back in the Pentagon seem to have been as surprised as everyone else. Erdogan is a dictator and he is turning Turkey into a rogue state. Turkey needs to be kicked out of NATO and sanctioned by America and the EU. Turkey does not have vast oil reserves or does it have or make anything much of value, and its economy and military will wither under sanctions.