Syria’s Assad Drops White Phosphorus On Villages: Report
Ok, so regular readers know how we feel about Bashar al-Assad and chemical weapons.
Simply put: the contention that Assad wouldn't dare deploy poison gas just when the regime is i) on the verge of sealing the deal in terms of regaining complete control of "useful Syria" (thanks almost completely to Hezbollah, the IRGC, and Russian air power) and ii) making progress in and around Deir Ezzor, is absurd for two reasons.
Assad doesn't think he has much to fear from the international community
This attack has called and raised Trump. Hard to describe WP as more humane than gas.
As the father and father-in-law of two medical combat veterans, Trump does not want to see burn victims. Not that any of us do.
Do we care about babies or not? What’s the strategy.
When drumpf realizes how valuable this diversion is, there will be much, much more to come in this vein. Anyway, it’s just makes him happy to wreck shit. Sad!
Won’t make a PR difference… phosphorous looks like regular bombs (even if little pieces of P wil continue to burn straight thru you — worse than VX!)
“‘why would he risk it?’ is this: because he’s backed by Moscow and Tehran”
That’s really quite weak reasoning, unless you’ve spent too much time watching the MIC prescribe overkill to nation states that won’t succeed to the hegemony. Willy Pete is an American calling card. This has been documented in Iraq.
This makes no sense to a reasonable person!
We the USA, have highly trained individuals that given permission can start eliminating these folks from the top down until we find someone that wants to get along
It really should not be our fight,
If everyone else wants to cheat I say we are the best
Assad, Putin and Trump….3 Mad Men. How is it possible that these 3 mad men, completely insane men, have control of the lives and deaths of thousands of innocent people?
To answer that question you need only follow the money!
Old men talk and young men die