Turkey wasn't in militarily, they were in it in every other way. FSA commanders were residing in Istanbul's hotels.
You take a very optimistic positive image of how it would turn out, a perfect scenario, it's hypothethical and one of many possibilities.
Today we have HTS and Turkish backed groups, HTS has more to fight for than the Istanbul hotel commanders
TR begun to wake up, when FSA begun to fall, after the arrival of RU/IR.
What we know, is that ASSad was gonna fall, before any of the mess that happen after it... From the Rise of Al Nusra... ISIS... YPG/PKK etc...
All that dynamic wouldn't happen.
We wouldn't have the mess we've got today... that's we are sure of...
As of Today, Every side is clinging on what could help them... People of Idlib and the North, side with those who give them the hope that ASSad will fall or at least will not come to them...
The Level of Hatred that those civilians got has not ''Compromise'' left... It's either death or leave their lands... as many Millions already did.
As long as ASSad is on... no future is possible... and Every side knows it... From Russia to the US and everything in btw.
That's also why ASSad is very pushy in those offensive... he want to end it AT ANY COST... before The guys around... began to choose another... future without him.
Just look at the Pro-RU members around him that he evicted in the past year... Commanders, Captains, even some family members...
