1. Syrian forces streamed into the country’s northeastern region for the first time in years.

They filled a vacuum opened by President Trump’s decision to abandon the United States’ former Kurdish allies there. The Kurds then made a deal with the Syrian government to try to drive back Turkey’s incursion.

The beneficiaries: Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s president (and in the view of the U.S. a war criminal), along with Iran and Russia.

President Trump, who essentially greenlighted the Turkish operation last week, took a harsher line today, raising tariffs on Turkey’s steel and suspending trade deal negotiations with the country.