I haven’t read that article you linked yet but tell me this: If Turkey was a vassal state of the US then how come they are bombing the Kurds who the US has been supporting? They must have known we wouldn’t like that. We have special forces embedded with the Kurds and the Turks are bombing them. Turkey is going their own way.
I don’t doubt that the US helped organize ISIS in the beginning but I see it as a Frankenstein monster who has morphed into something uncontrollable.
I hope that Obama is strong enough to resist being led into a war with Russia by Turkish actions. Erdogan is a nutcase and we shouldn’t let him dictate US foreign policy.
PS Paul Craig Roberts and William Engdahl are smart people but I sure don’t take what they say as God’s own truth.