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Saudi Arabia. Russia supports Assad and has no interest in destabilizing the country because they want to maintain their naval base at Latakia etc.

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Turkey is at least as much at fault as Saudi Arabia. They literally straight up pay salaries to wahabbi terrorists. The US also financed a lot of them.

> They literally straight up pay salaries to wahabbi terrorists

Really? I did not know that. Have you a source?

I do :

> The Turkey-backed FSA's wages are paid for by the Turkish government, they operate alongside the Turkish Armed Forces

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_National_Army

As for their terrorist proclivities:. https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/14/turkish-backed-forces-f...

To be fair though, they basically took over the CIA operations.

Until Trump appeared on the scene. You missed that out.

Actually, it continued for two years at least into the Trump presidency, see Operation Timber Sycamore.

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