While it wouldn’t be unusual for Syria to bomb targets belonging to al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front in the Idlib Province with airstrikes, a big hole in the US-backed allegations of a “chemical weapons attack” by the Syrian military is that there was no reason for such a strike.
Administration officials are trying to manufacture one, with an unnamed “senior official” today delivering a briefing to the media claiming that the Syrian military was afraid of a rebel offensive in the Hama Province, and launched the attack against the rebels’ rear support areas for operational purposes.
This new narrative, that the strike was done for operational reasons,, seemingly contradicts previous claims that Syria attacked civilians with chemical weapons for no reason at all, and when pressed by reporters, the US official was clearly shaken, insisting the attacks were for operational purposes, but not against militarily significant targets, which of course wouldn’t make sense.
On top of this, the US narrative’s initial premise is faulty, as the Hama offensive had already ground to a halt two weeks prior to the putative Syrian attack, and Syrian forces appeared well on their way to recovering lost territory from the rebels.
Small tit-for-tat offensives and counteroffensives on the frontier between government and rebel forces are common enough at any rate, that the losing a handful of villages in northern Hama would not have sparked such an act of desperation, meaning the US claim is not credible.
If anything, the underlying assumptions make Russia’s own narrative of conventional attacks against al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front make even more sense, since the US apparently assessed the area targeted as having operational significance to the jihadist rebels.
Small tit-for-tat offensives and counteroffensives on the frontier between government and rebel forces are common enough at any rate, that the losing a handful of villages in northern Hama would not have sparked such an act of desperation, meaning the US claim is not credible.
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It was, once again, an obvious false flag event.
It doesn’t matter that Syria had no reason to use chemical weapons- what DOES matter is that Trump launched a bunch of cruise missiles and that action has to be justified. So now, whether Syria did it or not, they can’t be let off the hook or Trump (and, by extension, the US) comes off looking bad.
You’re right on target and the Democrat party is afraid to take the side of truth. And the Republican party owns the president.
Of all possible miracles, Fox news has allowed some of the truthful narrative to be spoken but MSNBC sharply condemns it.
If the Republicans would tutn on Trump now, as opposed to later, there would be hope.
Republicans will not turn on Trump. The only hope I see for the survival of all life on earth at this point is that Russian hardware is superior to US hardware so that Russia and its allies can withstand the onslaught without resorting to a nuclear exchange. I say that because the US appears to be moving very aggressively on several fronts, and the statements by Mattis that are being interpreted by some as saying he’s opposed to an escalation of things in Syria are actually a veiled threat. To paraphrase, he said no escalation will occur because when Russia looks at it carefully, they will see it’s not in their interest to escalate things (ie, to call our bluff). It’s more or less like saying, “You’ll stand down if you know what’s good for you.”
In the normal US situation the Democratic party could disprove this blaming of Assad for the gas attack.
Unfortunately, they are still too preoccupied with destroying Trump and that has become consistent with upholding the lies to demonize Assad.
The momentum to condemn Assad has been established and both parties are afraid to depart from that narrative.
Here is a good explanation that was posted at another website:
“There were significant reasons why the Assad regime would use nerve gas on this target.
Khan Sheikhoun is right on the main road (M5) of the Syrian heartland. It is
the frontline for the Regime to push further North. The main target in Khan Sheikhoun would be the munitions production facilities, which are inside of manmade caves, quarried into the solid rock, a bit like Cheyenne Mountain. Russian partisans sheltered in underground caves while fighting Nazi occupation, and have prepared similar cave-like military facilities in many of their client states. They tunneled out caves in Afghanistan that a whole Armored Battalion could comfortably park and live inside, with multiple entrances, in case some were bombed shut. 500lb aerial bombs or barrel bombs would not worry folks inside those caves, but they are open to the air outside the entrances – the wind just blows in for ventilation. The Syrian Army used these facilities for a long time before the rebels captured them, so they knew well that conventional bombing would be ineffective.”
Here is a link to the above post by used “BeauBo” (there are good clear photos). http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/pings
I’m not going to become a member just to see the info
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