Who can say what the sociopathic lunatics controlling this sphere of conflict may do next. All we do know is they will do absolutely anything to hold onto power, and if that means more killings so be it.
What will Trump do? How will the Mad Mullahs of Iran use this threat and a range of follow-on scenarios to extend their own influence? We can guess through a large number of scenarios only one of which is a Turkish bluff to divert attention from their Idlib agenda.
The longer term objective was to establish extreme-end Brotherhood styled puppet governments in most of Syria, Lebanon, Northern Iraq and Eygpt, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere.