Thread by @sfrantzman

This would only work if Ankara wanted peace talks, but Ankara benefits and profits off conflict and inventing “terror” threats to excuse endless war and fuel its military industrial complex, drone sales and deals with Russia, Iran etc. Ankara systematically jettisoned peace

https://twitter.com/alizamarcus/status/1465129989809049608

The fact is also that Ankara’s far-right and it’s calculations of war were fueled by misreading the last US administration and gambling that the Trump admin would continue. Ankara’s threats and belligerence toward Greece, Israel, Egypt and others, was fueled by that calculus

Also Ankara can’t push for peace because it has used the Syrian rebel factions and abused them, outsourcing it’s war against SDF and YPG to them in Syria to shift them from fighting the regime to right Kurds, it needs the Syrian rebel and SNA and Ankara-backed extremists distract

Because the goal of Ankara from 2016, since the fall of Aleppo was to shift the Syrian rebels to be Ankara’s mercenaries to use them as cannon fodder to neutralize them by sending them to fight SDF, and to fight as mercenaries in Libya and other places to get rid of them

Ankara’s whole goal as the Astana process took off and peace process broker down in 2015-2016 was to destroy the Syrian rebellion. And peace therefore can’t be achieved because of Ankara