JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TURKEY AND SYRIA - BEWARE OF ANY EASY INTERPRETATION OF WHAT ERDOGAN IS DOING IN SYRIA - THIS IS AN UNSTABLE MAN

COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN RUSSIA INSIDER

Turkey to Liberate Western Syria and Itself

By moving into Idlib Turkey cements the future of the Russia/Iran/Turkey alliance

I don't think it is at all clear what Erdogan's intentions are.

This is a very erratic, high-strung man, and his past behaviors, including shooting down a Russian plane, should be a fair warning to anyone making easy predictions.

Erdogan resembles a Joker in a deck of cards. His relationship with the United States runs hot and cold, as does his relationship with Israel and Russia and Germany and the EU.

A very unpredictable man. The only valid prediction about him would be that he would do whatever profits his vision of Turkey, a vision which sees himself as a very important historical figure.