Yeah suuure Russia cares what HTS thinks;
This is the Russian intelligence plane in northern Hama region yesterday, flied above there to see if we left the area or not, in order to start imminent military operation on Idlib
They don't care what their opponents think; they have power and Casus Belli (existance of HTS) so they will use them, it was crystal clear from day one of Daraa offensive that they will try it to justify Idlib operation when Daraa is taken.
Daraa is taken, now they are in the outdoors of Idlib, shellin and bombing 7/24, watching our boys like if we left the position so they can roll in.
There is no shame to accept our stupidity. We did nothing for years about Idlib and now we have a huge cancer in Idlib that we don't want to clean. But the problem is, if we don't clean,
someone else will and they will stay there. That someone else was PKK in Afrin, we removed that possibility from Afrin, but Afrin operation as it's isn't the apple pie, it's the plate where we need to put our apple pie. Apple pie is İdlib, right there, waiting for it's "liberators", if we will not, it will be SAA/Iran or Russia and they will not give it back to us.
We did the same stupidity in eastern Euphrates. We did
nothing for years but sit on our butts while ISIS was there. We didn't remove them, so someone else (USA-PKK) took it as justification to occupy those lands, and now we have no solution to kick them out. I wonder how many times we will repeat same stupidity and expect different results.