As President Trump continues to backpedal on the idea of an imminent attack on Syria’s government, Russian officials say their top priority is to find a way to prevent a direct US-Russia War breaking out over a possible US strike.
This is a real concern on both sides, with fear of a US strike on Syria escalating out of control said to be a major reason why the administration is shifting away from a strike. Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia likewise warned in comments to reporters that Russia “cannot exclude any possibilities” with respect to a war with the US, citing bellicose rhetoric.
The easiest way to prevent this would be to not attack, and that’s looking at least possible. On Thursday evening, the White House issued a statement saying “no final decision has been made” on Syria and that they are still talking with France and Britain.
This is a big change from Trump yesterday telling Russia to “get ready,” but while cooler heads might be getting at least some hearing at these meetings, there’s still no guarantee they will ultimately prevail. There is still considerable interest among hawks to parlay the alleged chemical weapons attack into a pretext to attack Syria.
Those wishing to call the White House to express opposition to the Syrian War can do so at 202-456-1414. Indications are that there is a significant wait time because of all the calls pouring in. It is well worth waiting, however, given the potentially disastrous consequences of another American war in Syria.
Fortunately it’s a long way from Twitter to reality. I don’t think Trump wants this to be his war, which might the world’s final war. I doubt that serious folks in the military want this. Not to mention, the American people don’t. So who does?
The same ones that got us in to every war. They seem to crawl into poser no matter what party js in power. And they have abused Trump by all means at their disposal, and their press. He can only escape his guards periodically to a rally to say what he wants to say. Then he goes back, gets beaten up, starts tweeting contradictory, ridiculous, insulting and grotesque messages, and confusion reigns supreme. If you cannot beat them confuse them.
Yes, he’s a TRUE STATESMAN, a REAL LEADER, an alpha male who shows the swamp who’s in charge whenever he does what you think he should do.
Then when he turns on a dime and does the opposite of what you think he should do, he’s suddenly a poor, abused, encircled weakling with no willpower of his own whatsoever.
Everything Trump has said or done, Trump has said or done because that was what he wanted to say or do.
I suspect a lot of the serious people in the military have been replaced by more bellicose people, because there was no major objection with the disappearance of the Soviet Union, and it was good for business.
And of course the American people want war, as long as it’s presented the right way.
If history teaches us anything, it is: Don’t attack Russia, period. Napoleon, Hitler, and now… Trump? Really?
How stupid do the neocons think we are?
Plan B now that Plan A “Assad did it” looks shaky.
US can launch preemptive strike because the the 3000 or so American troops may be in danger of a chemical attack.
International law forbids nations from attacking each other without Security Council approval or in self-defence. The whole concept of a unilateral preemptive strike, especially one based on false-flag BS, violates the UN Charter. But, think about it, every war we’ve engaged in since 9/11 has been in violation of international law and our leaders are war criminals, so I guess the neocons are right. We’re pretty stupid.
Most or all of the major or reported CW attacks in Syria occurred after US promised the rebels US would punish SAA militarily for such attacks and after the rebels began sustaining severe battle and land losses.
Are the western nations onto these facts? Yes, of course. But when a nation or a gang of nations, thinking-behaving like a biker or a mafia gang, hates another nation, facts enrage them even more than lies.
I have already said a few times over the last few days that the Nation Gang, or parts thereof, that i was 100% sure The Gang will not attack Syria over the latest alleged CW attack in Douma.
Only a month after the UK incident, we get the repeat of last year’s “Assad did it” as if gas attacks are the only red line, and Israel and Saudi Arabia can continue their murderous campaigns with no publicity or criticism. Every ten minutes a child dies in Yemen, aided by Saudi/UK/US bombing plus cholera. Theresa May’s accusations/punishment of Russia with no evidence, and now hiding the alleged victims from any chance of telling us the truth, while she bullied other NATO nations to go along with the story, show how easily the media can be complicit in causing havoc.
Now France pretends to have evidence of Assad gassing, UK wants to go in to bomb Syria, Trump is unsure and nobody considers an investigation to be needed, except of course Russia and Syria, but they are not the “free world”, are they?