An informative maze of references, Oui. I was  engrossed by the links several nights.

Russia, Turkey agree to create demilitarized zone around Syria's Idlib

The agreement marks a major diplomatic victory for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who was eager to prevent a major Syrian government assault, backed by Russian air power
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As part of the Russia-Turkey agreement:

• Radical rebel groups, such as al-Qaeda linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) will be ordered to leave the zone
  
• The Syrian government will gain access to a key highway passing through Idlib that connects the north of the country with other major cities
  
• Both Turkish and Russian troops will patrol the demilitarized zone
  

Predicted by Southfront.org analysis of multi-lateral positioning (so-called delay) and plausible path to a fugue state of hostilities ("end-game"). Persauding Syria to concede what the Turks cannot control (US-NATO funded ISIS fraternizing with HTS) and, ultimately, appeasing the Kurds (Raqqa! An obscene episode easily discarded), whose militias are all more devoted to autonomous settlement than either deposing Assad or US-NATO allegiance (since Iraq!). In an aside, Southfront confirmed the "open secret," Kurds would not be participating in any operations. Just maybe that was under US direction. In any case, Russian mediation paid off.

What threw me off was, even though MoA pulled out Southpoint bullet points, this front page message:

The [SYRIA-allied] operation has to wait until the Congressional elections in the U.S. are over and the danger of a U.S. escalation for domestic policy reasons recedes. Russia also fears that an attack on Idleb right now could re-unite the U.S. and Turkey and lead to a new coordinated onslaught on Syria.

as if endorsing US military and financial redundancy. The "Final Battle" was a sham to all but Anglosphere from inception? The mid-term election result is utterly irrelevant to the maneuvers in Syria. Congress has already pulled all their tricks to intimidate Russia and Turkey!They even reset their R2P2 Chemical Warfare deadline to 4 Nov. What's left to "fear"? Erdogan will be salvaging Idlib's ruins, Syria-allied is cleared to sweep Q4.

Until spring perhaps. ugh.

(MoQ link: Turkish Strategy In Northern Syria: Military Operations, Turkish-backed Groups And Idlib Issue)

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