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Your perspective is fresh

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It's as fresh as a Jen Rubin column in the Washington Post.

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You overstate the alignment between Turkiye and NATO. In Syria, Karabakh, Ukraine and Gaza they have followed quite different strategies. Turkiye is with one foot in the NATO camp, with the other in the Qatar/Pakistan camp.

The attitude of the new Syrian government towards the Kurds will be extremely important. If that situation escalates, we might have not won Syria, but lost Turkiye.

That being said, your overall take is correct.

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If it was only Turkey that won then I think it would be more ambiguous. But Israel has gained territory overseeing Damascus and destroyed Syria's strategic weapon reserves. There is very little chance that Turkey exits NATO so long as it has a competition with Russia/Iran.

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This is a poor take. Yes, according to a neocon narrative driven by war games like diplomacy or civilisation this is a symbolic victory over Russia. But for those less concerned with such silly power plays ie. in the real world, Syria is very likely to become more Islamist now. That's not really a win for either the left or the right in the West but it's certainly a victory for Islamism.

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Alliance systems matter. Assad was a pawn of the Russians, and therefore, the Chinese. The Deep Left is the Deep State, and the Deep State won. As a Christian, the fact that you are griping about this proves my point.

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This will hurt Russia but….this could also hurt the West because a lot of the rebels fighting against the Assad government are Jihadists.

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Again: Retarded. The theory that Turkish intelligence (who in their own right are known for torture and assassination) somehow made Al Qaeda moderate, is about as dumb as arguing that the fascist Nicaraguan contras became libertarian because they worked with CIA.

The secular elements in Turkey has largely been cleaned out over the last decades btw.

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No one in the middle east is "moderate." It's America vs Russia-China. Deep Left won.

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Wrong again. American influence in Syria is limited, this is Erdogan’s mess. Trump will also likely pull troops from there after January.

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Too wordy. Too much of a preamble stating pretty obvious stuff. You need to hone your writing skills to the point where you can jump straight into the point you're trying to make. Try to model your writing on much better writers like me.

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But credentialism is bad, The gentleman science of the old should be brought back instead

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How to bring it back?

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Privately-owned/non-public, corporate/not-for-profit R&D labs could be more prioritized instead, as opposed to the managerial academia

You could privatize the already existing national labs for example, but make sure they are all operate in a not-for-profit manner

Not perfect, but at least a reduction in credentialism, although you're a leftist so you won't be liking it I guess

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Yes, it is a tactical victory, and tactical victories are important. I am going to slime you with green slime.

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America won the Arab Spring. Gaddafi died. Turkey is part of NATO. Israel is aligned with NATO as far as the Middle East is concerned. Turkey and Israel's interests align in Syria. Israel is obviously the winner here.

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