@Oggie What's giving me all kinds of bad deja-vu is the degree to which my media is adamant that "these are moderates" and "Al Qaeda has been purge from the rebels." This is particularly worrisome to me given what Kurdish reports say about the HTS and the long history of Western media deploying the word "moderate" to cover for some pretty terrible allies.
Again tho, I legit don't know their (our media's) precise motives yet.