he needs assad and iran to comply or he's put in an afghanistan situation with perpetual civil war and more refugees flooding into turkey.    > absolutely no one wants partition that is how international coalitions resolved the bosnian crisis, also belgium and russia are partitioned internally along ethnic lines. it has to happen, otherwise the alawite and druze regions will become thorns in the side of erdogan. internal partition is the only viable basis for a peace agreement, i believe that is actually how the french governed syria as well. i actually pulled up the map for that online. look at it. this is syria's future. this is what worked in the past.
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