Unlike Afrin Manbij is defensible. Turkey would have a long flank to defend if it heads East.
Turkey now has all Aleppo Province to return refugees to, But that it is going to be a tinderbox of refugees and terrorists.
Yes. The MMC is in Manbij and they are good troops. Experienced and well run.
And Afrin would have also been defensible if we could have given the SDF air support. And if another NATO “ally” had not attacked them.
But that is what happened. And it cost 1,500 good lives. Many at the hands of ISIS that we were fighting before Turkey employed them.