before all across life executive editor of 21st century wired dot com patrick henningsen thanks for joining us patrick good to have you on today if we can start with the speech there by president i want to parliament. a lot of rhetoric lot of strong words here do you see the action behind that is this just rhetoric is just p.r. or kind of we expect some sort of major turkish operation against syrian government forces in northern syria. well that's the big question the big question is does does turkey as a country have the stomach for a shooting war with its neighbor syria and up to this point they've been able to avoid this i personally based on turkey's willingness to put proxies on the front line to sort of deputized free syrian army for instance and all these various militant jihadi factions and absorb them into the under the turkish military structure that that sends a message i think to to syria to russia to iran to other people on the ground there that they're not that serious they don't have the stomach for body turkish body bags to pile up because at that point it's going to become

glee war and as things stand liable to get a whole lot uglier still global affairs analyst patrick henningsen believes turkey should be doing more to deescalate the conflict not the opposite. turkey has not upheld its obligations not on the saudi agreement but also on the agreement on the . deescalation zones are not going to work if turkey doesn't. maintain its side of the bargain and in order to separate the militants supposedly from the regular moderate rebels we know in reality that there is no difference really between those 2 so that part of the agreement is neither here nor there but the because of this there's no way to have the escalation zones on the greenman. if you remember back in the fall of 28 teen there were a number of things agreed and one of the key things was that turkey would assist in the liberation of the international road to damascus to aleppo road or the the m 5 highway to turkey has never done that and the reason none of these agreements are working is because actually turkey appears to be pursuing a parallel agenda and as long as it's doing that there's no way that