What are some “take-aways” from what has happened?

• 1. Turkey has now formally declared the U.S. (and therefore NATO) as its enemy. Pres. Erdogan has blamed the US Government for the coup attempt — which many inside Turkey and the Middle East will believe, given the US recent history of advocating “regime change” — and he did so in a way which offers little chance of revision, also publicly crediting Russian Spetsnaz troops with sav-ing his life during the putsch.