"Syria and the End of the US-Turkish Alliance." Topic

"After almost a year of negotiations to resolve differences over the war in Syria, the United States and Turkey are no closer to reaching agreement on a proposed "safe zone" along the Turkish-Syrian border. In a speech over the weekend, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, again, announced his intention to invade northeastern Syria: "We entered Afrin, Jarablus, and Al-Bab. Now we will enter the east of the Euphrates. We shared this (information) with Russia and the U.S." Erdogan's threat came just a few days after Amb. James Jeffrey visited Ankara for inconclusive talks about Syria's northeast, and on the eve of a follow-on visit by U.S. military delegation to discuss the same topic.

The risk of a unilateral Turkish intervention is high and any such move would make conditions for the American and allied militias in Syria more difficult. However, for Ankara, the threat is a simple reiteration of policy, and makes strategic sense, given the very real fact that Turkey is willing to risk the lives of American military personnel because of deeply held grievances about U.S. policy in Syria and the concurrent empowerment of the Syrian Kurds…"
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The US should back and support their allies in the region, even if it means coming to blows with Turkey.

Wonder which side NATO will weigh in on, if that occurs?