Syria gas attack and Donald Trumps military response dont add up

[ghostsinthemachine]

Unless Putin Orchestrated it

I detest empty conspiracy theories. If the most straightforward logical explanation for something is well supported by the facts, then it’s probably true most of the time. But here’s the trouble with the events of the past forty-eight hours: none of it makes sense on its face. Not the gas attack in Syria. And certainly not Donald Trump’s response. I hate to say it, but these events only logically make sense if they’ve all been arranged by Vladimir Putin.

Let’s start with the gas attack in Syria. In my view, the rebels lack the motivation and the organization to have been behind it. And ISIS was so weakened during the Obama administration that it now lacks the muscle to have pulled this off (and ISIS would be loudly taking credit if it did). And yet Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, genocidal as he may be, would not have done something like this without the approval of the Kremlin, because he is a longtime Russian puppet in both an economic and military sense.

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http://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/syria-gas-attack-and-donald-trumps-military-response-dont-add-up-unless-putin-orchestrated-it/2210/

[doc03]

1. Didn't Assad turn all his chemical weapons over to Russia

a couple years ago? Did he not turn them over, make new ones or maybe Russia was behind this. I don't think Putin would
have any problems gassing a few people especially to help out his man in the USA.

[dalton99a]

3. Yep. Obama didn't attack Syria only because Russia offered a deal to dismantle the chemical weapons

[Igel]

6. With some problems along the way.

Unaccounted for crap, undisclosed locations that were identified after the deal was struck.

The narrative at the time wanted us to assume that the unaccounted for stuff was lost or captured or its disposal wasn't properly recorded; locations that weren't identified had been decommissioned and no records survived or were kept.

Then again, the thing about secretive dictatorships is that they're secretive and, well, dictatorships.

Note that chlorine attacks continued. Nobody doubts that.

On the other hand, chlorine's butt-easy to produce. A bit harder to get compressed, but I'd imagine that the only country on Earth lacking the appropriate equipment for this would be South Sudan.

No, people have been saying "sarin" but no tests have been carried out. Problem with sarin is it's either got to be purified and stabilizied or it has a short shelf-life. Alternatively, you can rig the equipment to mix the right chemicals and have its production occur minutes before it's deployed. Seems like a pain to go to all the trouble for an insurgent group to get fresh stockpiles of the chemicals for sarin production. Other munitions would be easier to get.

In the end, what we're left with is a bag full of guesses, hypotheses, and assumptions alloyed with suspicions. That plane from the Russo-Syrian alliance bombed the city is clear; the origin of the gas, the type of gas, those are less clear. Most likely it's Syrian gas, but that can't be stated with 100% confidence unless some informant came forth and said this with some sort of physical evidence.

[matt819]

2. I'm perplexed

You know this can't have anything to do with the beautiful babies who died in the gas attack. 45 just doesn't give a fuck about beautiful foreign babies.

Plus, it seems to have an anti Russian component. And the attack killed done Russians. But 45 gives Putin a heads up.

Is the attack intended to distract from the Russian investigations here? Does the attack serve some Russian aim but still give them political cover?

The attack without Congress knowledge or approval should have then up on arms. They are not, further revealing rhrmsrlves to simply be an arm of the WH, not the check and balance it's supposed to be.

Color me skeptical.

[mulsh]

4. As I drifted off to sleep last night my thoughts were along these lines. I don't know if its correct

but Palmer's piece echoes what I continued to thing about when I woke up this morning. For my part it's due to the fact that I don't believe anything that comes out of the Kremlin Klan in the White House, especially as it was amplified by the deep thinkers and telegenic people with sonorous voices on the tube last night.

maybe I'm just way too cynical.

I hope I'm wrong.

[ghostsinthemachine]

5. I think the other reasoning, and result,

Is far more serious. At least with Putin calling the shots, we aren't going to see bombers filling the skies over Mir A Lago.