they have attached a lot of political capital to this operation there s a lot at stake here and added to our own chris concerns will be will most what will moscow to moscow at the moment is allowing turkish forces to use syrian air space if this deal with the syrian regime and the kurdish forces is going forward will moscow now stop turkish air forces from using syrian air space if that happens that will be another blow to the turkish offensive into syria and this is a very complex situation dorian includes the u.s. as well because syrian kurdish militias in northern syria have been working with the u.s. in battling islamic state washington obviously as an opponent of syria s president bashar assad or the kurds not at risk of alienating their u.s. allies by cooperating with assad s troops. well that will be a factor here but you have to realize this whole syrian conflict has been characterized by contradictory policies being followed by all sides both inside syria and those countries i