Working Paper - PUTIN IS PLAYING CHESS, NOT CHECKERS!
Foreword
Russian President Putin and Turkish President Erdogan met on 22 October 2019 in Sochi with a shared agenda of shaping the endgame in Syria's eight-year civil war.
The two leaders agreed upon a 10-point memorandum of understanding with an unstated bottom line: “The Americans do not have a place in shaping the future of Syria”.