Convoy carrying civilians and western journalists targeted by Turkish strike in Northern Syria- 11 killed and 70 wounded (Updates on conflict)

Turkey 14th largest army in the world.
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355,200 armed service personnel

To paraphrase Brian Clough, on paper, Turkey should win, but wars aren't fought on paper.

Syrian armed forces:

142,000

Turkey against just Syria yes.



But Syria, the Kurds, the SDF and maybe the Russians...

And then there's the Iranians...

:Khamenei:

Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.✻
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.

SNA is jihadists who work for Turkey under that name; they’ve killed Kurds, Assyrians, and Christian Syrians under a guise of SNA.

At least its not US troops.

Maybe Trump is letting Syria and Russia do the dirty work and get rid of Turkey.

That is a fair point, but they are dealing with Saudi Arabia at the moment too.

not a war declaration after WWII ..

Not strictly true. Ethiopia and Eritrea declared war on each other in 2008.

Soldiers numbers are irrelevant but Turkish Army is way stronger than Assad's army. Assad can only win with Russian support. But that would be a direct confrontation between a NATO member and Russia.

And your trump

the exception that confirms the rule

yes but turkey is an aggressor..

Hezbollah. They already kicked Israel's ass. Turkey will be no different. Russia and Iran don't have to get directly involved.

According to wikipedia there has been a declaration of war between Georgia and Russia in 2008.

Well, I'm gonna give him credit and think he knew that they would sort it out amongst themselves.


And we do need to get out of the way now, pronto.

Western countries, and I'd extend this to Israel lose public opinion support for a military intervention when casualties start to happen, 100+ deaths are already a lot and can be enough to force retreat. Israel only lost about 100 soliders against Hezbollah and they stopped the military intervention.

Turkey isn't like this. Moreover Turkey has a lot of proxies to use in Syria to do dirty tactics.

The u.s. cannot fix the m.e.

"Old europe," as rumsfeld called them, told the u.s. not to go in there.

All the u.s. did was make things worse for everyone.

Dude, we are not the aggressor.


Get a grip.

Yep.

A NATO member that fired on US troops the other day, that bought the s400 anti-aircraft system from Russia and offered to help them develop the s500.

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#UPDATE: Video reportedly showing Turkish Armed Forces convoy (mainly consisting of tanks and armoured vehicles) now moving towards Manbij amid reports of an SDF-SAA/Russia deal

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Turkey ranked ninth most powerful military:


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BREAKING: Large Turkish and FSA force is moving towards #Manbij city. Orders have been given to capture the city after #YPG/#PKK made a deal with Assad to hand over the city to Assads forces. #Turkey #Syria