Russian officials tried to sound a conciliatory note over yesterday’s UN chemical weapons report, which noted two releases of “toxic substances” following Syrian helicopter attacks, and one ISIS deployment of mustard gas, with Ambassador Vitaly Churkin insisting that they and the US have a mutual interest in discouraging such attacks.
US officials don’t appear to be there yet, however, with their comments exclusively centering on the two incidents with Syrian helicopters, and demanding “strong and swift action” against the Assad government, and reiterating their demands for immediate regime change.
Russian officials urged more study on the matter, but did say they found it “very important” that the report finally admitted that ISIS had used mustard gas in an attack, because usually Western officials have been trying to blame the Syrian government for all those incidents.
Syria gave up its chemical weapons arsenal in 2013 and early 2014. The incidents they are blamed for center on the release of chlorine gas, and not the deployment of the sort of advanced chemical weapons Syria had before that disarmament.
The Syrian government has nothing to gain with using improvised (and militarily ineffective) CW agents, but terrorists groups can use them as false flag attacks in order to discredit the government and provide a “justification” for their Western backers to engage in military strikes to “punish” the “regime” for its “war crimes”.
Its SO transparent, but the MSM ignores the reality and keeps reporting the official narrative.
Yea I’m sure that’s what’s happening the rebels are gassing it’s own people in territories they occupy to get the Syrian regime to be held accountable for war crimes as if the systematic bombing of hospitals and civilian populated areas weren’t enough to amount to war crimes…i guess it’s possible…but honestly makes no sense at all…
The Syrian government is running short of munitions. That is the meaning of barrel bombs — improvised bombs. They are far less deadly than what everyone else is using, but different and easily demonized.
In WW1, a major driving force in using gas to fill projectiles was a shortage of explosives. If Syria is putting chlorine in barrel bombs, it is probably from the same motive.
Meanwhile, we know now that the rebels used such weapons for the purpose of blaming the Syrian government, in an effort to draw in more outside support. Even the West now admits that. If there really were barrel bombs of this sort, it is still only part of the story, and we ought not to allow ourselves to be pulled in by such childish manipulations.
Yea the slaughtering of thousands of people by it’s Iranian puppet dictator Assad wasn’t enough the rebels had to take chemical attacks on its own people I guess whatever you got to tell yourselves to sleep at night what don’t y’all get it’s tribal Sunni vs Shiite if it where up to me I’d say Russia get out U.S.A get out it’s there issue, but strategically for Russia that’s a problem that’s it’s only base and source of influence in the region…World Powers…what can you do???
You’re a clueless fool. The majority of Syrian government forces are Sunni. The “rebels” aka foreign extremist mercenaries wouldn’t stand a chance against the Syrian government supported by a vast majority of Syrians if it weren’t for Western backing and support. There would be no mercenary “rebel” army without Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Monarchies paying their salaries. It’s sad you choose to side with “team USA” instead of with principles of justice, morality, and universal human rights. “My country right or wrong” is the slogan of brain dead flag wavers that lack the capacity for critical thought…
Some questions what religion is Bashar Assad Shiite or Sunni? He’s got Iranians helping his military in combat aren’t they Shiites?He’s got Hezbollah from Lebanon helping him to aren’t they funded by Iranians? Billy Bob i’m not a genius but it seems like Assads being supported by the Shiites and if they’re fighting against the Saudi monarchy aren’t the Saudis Sunnis aren’t the Turks Sunnis? Seems like a tribal religious war to me with the Russians backing the Shiites and the USA backing the Sunnis.So why is ok when one superpower does it but not ok when the other does the same thing?O…and Syria’s president is an Alawite a form of Shiite Muslim..just so you know why Iran supports him…clueless far from it Billy Bob far from it…USA
All these are divisions of Islam. No , the war is what is known as a Covert Operation (technical term), planned in Washington for 10 years, using “paramilitaries” (technical term) recruited from fundamentalist movements within Islam – the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafists. A fortune of your American taxpayers’ money has been spent on this. A figure is being quoted of the CIA spending 31 billion a year on paying their wages and arming and training them.
The objective is to instal an American client government in Syria and have Monetarism take over the Syrian economy.
The Muhajadden paramilitaries have been a feature of American foreign policy since the mid ’70’s.
The population do not want fundamentalism and Sharia law imposed on them.
You are openly supporting a policy of aggression against another country.
That’s called a War of Aggression. Your behaviour is identical to Nazi Germany.
However it appears likely if there were Chlorine attacks that this was yet another False Flag attack orchestrated by Washington.
August 10th, 2016 The Stench of Raw Propaganda
Agents for the elite willing to tell the most blatant and transparant lies, they know the media will not challenge them on their statements. Washington’s plan to invade Syria was blocked by the UK Parliament and Russian diplomacy.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/08/10/the-stench-of-raw-propaganda-paul-craig-roberts/