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What is a deeper hole? Not a fan of current Turkish leadership but the current development is in large part a failure of American diplomacy. Turkey is already involved in literally every Russian-led group right now and that after bitter rivalry and fifteen wars over last six centuries. Ask yourself how could it happen.

Erdogan has been seething over our support for the Kurdish groups for years, in fact he was asked not to interfere in Syria when he wasn't included in the coalition to start with, and he ignored that....add in Washington’s refusal to extradite his Fethullah Gulen, that he blames for Turkey’s 2016 coup attempt, then the issue over the the S-400 no-sale.....not to mention his support for Isis......sooo He's not exactly a favorable participant in US diplomacy....he's backed himself into a corner.

Turkey is a dictatorship. It has always been guilty of ethnic cleansing, genocide and brutal repression of anything out of the mindset of a few. Turkey was never a good candidate for NATO, but they were anti Communist.

USSR is dead. The Russian Federation is all that remains. They are not a friend of freedom and they hold Democratic elections in contempt. So does Erdogan the Islamist.

Erdooo has neo Ottoman dreams, he really imagines himself leading the Muslim world in battle against Israel. (hence with the USA too)

Russia has ties to Israel, not like the USA, but none the less they have an understanding and some limited trust.

Not look hard at who Russia partner’s with. That should tell you they are calculating for their own agenda and have no issues with dealing with horrible regimes. Long history shows just that.

We wait now.