I guess people who have a modicum of historical knowledge wouldn't let themselves be turned into proxies in the first place. It's kind of the same mechanic as a scam email being intentionally poorly worded to attract the dumbest people possible.

They thought they were relatively civilized and relatively European like Israel and unlike the Kurds.

It's even more baffling considering they did it to Georgia in nearly exact same scenario in 2008 and even (to the lesser extent) to Ukraine itself after 2004.