The Turkish backed (Islamo-fascist) Suliman Shah Brigade and the Syrian Army are now both reportedly heading towards the Syrian city of Manbij.
The Syrian Army has been invited to Manbij by the (previously) US backed SDF.
If the Syrian Army is at all interested in keeping what remains of Syria intact, they will need to deploy both heavy weapons and air cover.
Should the TSK then respond in kind a key question is whether of not Russia and Iran will back up the SAA the NDF and the SDF. Putin now needs to choose bluntly between Erdogan and Assad. I doubt very much if this is where Putin wants to be ATM.
So far I have only seen social media pictures on both sides of fighters in pick up trucks and technical however the TSK build up (not shown on social media) has been going on for months now (perhaps implying that Erdogan knew of Trump's decision before Mattis did).
No development is particularly odd in this conflict but developments are hard to predict. What I don't know is what side (if any) French and residual EU forces will take. For the EU, Trump's premature withdrawal decision is a political disaster. The French won't want to side with Assad, Russia and Iran nor will they seek to condemn their trusted comrades in the field to certain slaughter.
