Last night, the United States attacked Syria, launching 59 Tomahawk missiles against a Syrian air base in a move that marked a dramatic reverse in Trump Administration policy toward Syria. What that policy actually is, however, is totally unclear.
Reporters unsurprisingly had a lot of questions, and the White House, also unsurprisingly, had no answers, dodging all questions about the goals of the new US intervention in Syria, and what the overall strategy or even next steps either militarily or diplomatically is.
All the White House would say is that the US attacks were “very decisive,” even if they aren’t all that clear what decision they even made. Beyond that, administration officials were talking up the idea that the US might launch more attacks in the near future.
Some officials were trying to downplay last night’s attacks as a one-off deal. Yet with no clear story on what the point of those strikes was, except for being “decisive,” there’s really no way of knowing when the next impulse to launch an attack will strike the leadership.
Trump the ZIOCON. Wow was I ever fooled. But I’m done with him. Just another Israel firster totally co opted by Imperial Washington.
People who oppose Trump’s war may not be the same people who oppose Israel’s behaviour. Don’t defuse the war issue by going off topic.
Is the Chinese President expected to visit again?
Kushner ‘The Sassoon’ might have to get decisive with the Chinese again if they didn’t learn from the first time around.
What can poor China do with that little fat nit wit from North Korea . You bet China is nervous now it looks like maybe they have another one to deal with to across the pond .
China can do mostly… nothing.
Kushner ‘The Sassoon’s’ little stunt, bombing Syria and playing catch-and-release with China (fish dinner- haha), resulted in North Korea’s leadership affirming their wisdom in developing nuclear weapons. China also doesn’t come off as looking too bright.
The zero MSM or even Indie notice of the diplomatic faux-pas of a U.S. attack upon foreign opponents (Russia-Syria) while said opponents’ more or less ally (China) is visiting the U.S., confirms something’s up. The mechanics of the observation are sound, but the media silence is deafening. The seriousness of taking China’s leadership briefly hostage for an unopposed missile strike on Syria is understandably unpleasant to consider, but it is real news.
There does not appear to be any wiggle room save the U.S. signing either a peace treaty or non-aggression treaty and coming back later; as in, decades later, to try again.
Which probably won’t happen; it concedes to NK the illusion of victory.
Going back to Mackinder’s vision of the world heartland, North Korea sits on strategically valuable real estate. Literally, a section of natural wall protecting China and the Eurasian heartland. Those mountains can be used to defend in a land war against Asia – or a base to attack Asia. North Korea is even conveniently dug in like a fortress itself.
The American presence on the South Korea lower peninsula constitutes a crossing of the Pacific ‘moat’ to fortress Eurasia, establishing a siege position on the berm before the walls. Except, now they’re stuck there. All the troops and anti-missile systems they plant, will only ensure a more spectacular erasure of South Korea in a hot war with China-North Korea.
The Chinese will not, if they are independently intelligent, cede geostrategic real estate of North Korea’s magnitude. The North Koreans know this. If the Chinese can be charmed into forgetting geostrategic reality, they will be made to remember the hard way just like the first Opium wars, when trading off extremities of the Qing Empire to protect the Qing Dynasty over protecting the country resulted in ‘sick man of Asia’ syndrome.
Only ignorant louts dwell on the appearance of their enemies. And being an ignorant lout prevents you from understanding China’s relationship with N.Korea.
China is about as worried about their client, N.Korea as the US is worried about it’s client, Israel.
Or in other words, for stupid people to understand, both relationships are in lockstep with their masters.
Americans are always very aware of their country’s own power but they usually fail to understand how other nuclear armed nations can neutralize US power.
So maybe it’s time to pull your horns in a bit bigboy, and stop worrying about little Kim’s appearance?
Then they better use something other than tomahawk missiles, because only 23 of the 59 fired hit the air base in Homs. None of the 36 taken down delivered payload anywhere inside Syria. Scraps were found near Latakia. Russia took out 36 of the 59 tomahawks.They probably could have taken them all out but chose not to escalate the situation by embarassing the U.S.
https://southfront.org/russian-defense-ministry-only-23-out-of-59-tomahawk-missiles-reached-their-target-in-syria/
The spin and the counterspin on how many hit the target isn’t important. A UN investigation to determine guilt is!
To not demand it is just falling into the same trap that was set for Saddam and his nonexidtent WMD’s.
It seems to me Russia might have to post a no fly zone over Syria , like we did over Libya . Way to much shooting going on by people that don’t know what they are doing . following fake news , George Sore’s NGOs or untrustworthy intelligence .
We can time the next attack with Trumps approval ratings. He must have gotten a major rush seeing that all it takes to be popular is to shoot off some cruise missiles.
If he isn’t opposed. What is most important right now is that the pressure be kept up on demanding a UN investigation to correctly place blame.
That’s being overstepped and it’s very similar to the conjob that worked when Hans Blix was cut off at the knees before being able to proclaim definitively that Saddam had no WMD’s.
Any investigation, at BEST, will be inconclusive. No way can it ever be admitted that the attack was unjust even though it was unjust even if Assad were guilty.
But Saddam did have WMDs if Sarin gas is considered a WMD We know Iraq had it because we sold it to Iraq .
Actually what “we” sold to Saddam (in return for “agricultural” aid money “we” had given him were plants for producing pesticide. Sarin is close enough to the same thing that said plants are easily converted to sarin production.
Maybe Sarin gas is a not WMD .Saddam had a lot of it He bought it from the USA . I believe a lot of it ended up in Syria .
It’s like a kid discovering masturbation for the first time. Now he’s gonna wanna do it twelve times a day.
I almost said major erection but I couldn’t bring myself to say that while talking about Trump.
I think you just did. 😀
No, the truth is that there is a definite plan for war on Syria and there always has been. It was only defused during Obama’s time because he had the brains to place the responsibility on the US congress.
And fwiw, the Iran war is coming soon too.
Trump may not have a plan but his deep state puppet masters sure as hell do and that plan is Hillary’s plan, World War 3.
http://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/
We can all be pretty confident that Assad’s air force isn’t responsible. It is the exact opposite of what he would want done because the Russians have undoubtedly made him very aware of the US move into Syria and the obvious intentions.
It could have been sarin gas in the hands of the terrorists that were hit. or-
What is beginning to look more likely now is that no sarin gas was used and nobody was gassed. Experts on the use of Sarin gas are coming out and saying that the picture of them manhandling babies doesn’t make any sense. And in fact, it’s not necessary to be an expert to be suspicious of what we were shown.
Can the wall of US propaganda be broken through? Is it an easier wall to break through than the Iraq WMD lies that justified war on Iraq?
Trump is a foolish man falling for an old trick. The terrorists are giddy with excitement after staging a chemical attack and getting the USA to bomb the Syrian Governemt forces.
That is what Iam afraid happened . I wonder if Trumps poll numbers would go if every body thinks like you and I do . Clintons poll numbers went up and we all stopped talking about Monika , We have not heard near so much about Putin and Trump being good buddies any longer . These guys have pulled this trick so often you would think the USA would catch on . but I guess there is not much chance of that happening