that doesn't mean putin can't pick a fight with the rest of syria. >> there aren't exactly two sides here. it could get worse for some other people. you know, graeme, i saw you nodding your head when michael was talking right there. you know, michael noted to me before that the russians have called this a provocation. that's a loaded word. that's a loaded word you can use as a rationale to do a whole lot of different things in terms of national security. >> yeah, absolutely, and it's not just the russians. we see the turks and different turkish factions as well retreating to their respective corners. you could expect that the russians would frame this as a reason to be even tougher, as they would probably put it, against rebels in syria. also within turkey, you would expect the erdogan government to mention this might be gulenis tx a and others to say it was al qaeda or the turk iish state, t unmentioned factor here. it's still possible this is islamic state linked. the mention of aleppo suggests