Hints of Turkey’s new plan to push the US out of the remaining parts of Syria, where Americans are guarding oil fields  “I made a proposal to Putin,” Erdogan said on March 9. “We can build with the aid of the oil.” Turkey now wants to “revive Syria,” apparently to help keep Russian-backed Assad regime in power, despite Turkey’s past statements critiquing Assad. Turkey has a long history of working with  Russia to partition parts of Syria.