Defense Secretary James Mattis told reporters on Tuesday that the US is pushing Russia to prevent “a looming chemical weapons attack” in rebel-held northern Syria. This attack is something US officials have repeatedly talked up, and threatened military attacks over.
The US has made several mentions of this “looming” attack despite officials having conceded to the press several times that there is no evidence the Syrian military has made even a hint of deploying such arms.
Indeed, the only reason to think a chemical attack might be an issue recently is media reports, mostly coming out of Russia, that British special forces and Islamist rebels have been preparing to “stage” a chemical weapons attack in a rebel village to justify a US military intervention.
High-ranking Russian officials have repeatedly expressed concern about such a false flag attack. It is worth noting that US officials have not addressed this concern, despite it being impossible for them to be unaware of what a concern it’s become in Russia. At the same time, US officials keep hyping up a chemical attack that they have no reason to think would be about to happen, and would seemingly only be an expedient for another US attack on Syria.
Do we honestly believe that Assad will be dumb enough to use chemical weapons after we explicitly tell him that we will bomb his country if he does? Oh wait, we did that twice before. Never mind, bombs away.
There have been three false flag chemical weapons “non-attacks” so far, but you’re right in that Assad/Syria was only warned in advance of the last two.
Fascinating, like an old Western the bad guy starts telling the unarmed man to “draw” just before he shoots him and claims he was reaching for a gun.
Uncle Sham is all about false flags. A very poor and predictable one at that.