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Looking towards a Trump-Putin phonecall coming soon near you...
Yeah, especially since the latest Obama-Putin phonecall, regarding Ukraine, didn't turn out that well...
Looking towards a Trump-Putin phonecall coming soon near you...
If he has these depths of cunning and subtlety, he's certainly kept it well hidden.I am deeply pessimistic about what has happened, but at the back of my mind I still wonder if this is a Trump trick. Suppose he can get evidence that this attack didn't happen as claimed - even evidence that some US officials knew the truth - he could cull the Neo-Cons in one blow, and they would be facing treason charges. If that did happen, even the media could hardly side with his enemies!
David
I am deeply pessimistic about what has happened, but at the back of my mind I still wonder if this is a Trump trick. Suppose he can get evidence that this attack didn't happen as claimed - even evidence that some US officials knew the truth - he could cull the Neo-Cons in one blow, and they would be facing treason charges. If that did happen, even the media could hardly side with his enemies!
I am deeply pessimistic about what has happened, but at the back of my mind I still wonder if this is a Trump trick. Suppose he can get evidence that this attack didn't happen as claimed - even evidence that some US officials knew the truth - he could cull the Neo-Cons in one blow, and they would be facing treason charges. If that did happen, even the media could hardly side with his enemies!
David
Careful - I nearly choked laughing when I read this!!!If he has these depths of cunning and subtlety, he's certainly kept it well hidden.
Either:
I wrote previously that some people voted for Trump because they felt the previous administration was abusing the power of their position for political purposes and that four more years under Clinton would let the same gang strengthen their strangle hold on power and make it that much harder to reverse the corruption.
Well, the way he did it, very few (conceivably no) people died, but a lot of physical damage was done. If that trapped his enemies, a vastly greater good would be served.I think I'm missing something, because I can't make sense of what you wrote, David. If DT even suspected that he had "evidence that some US officials knew the truth" - implying that he, DT, also knew the truth - then what on Earth could have possessed him to act against that truth, as though he didn't know it (by launching an attack)? In that case, shouldn't he too be facing treason charges?
Please let me know what I've missed if indeed I'm missing something.
It is said that this can't happen exactly as stated - i.e. that sarin has to be prepared shortly before use (I guess if it were stored at liquid nitrogen temperatures or even maybe dry ice temperatures it would last a lot longer), so these incidents may require some deliberate actions by the terrorists.Apparently the U.S. just did the exact same thing that Syria did: bombed an ISIS warehouse where CW was stored and the poison gas cloud killed Syrian soldiers and civilians.
Hard to know the truth over there, but if true, does this mean Syria gets chide the US for using CW on innocent beautiful babies and then launch 59 missiles into an airbase on the US mainland as punishment? Turnabouts fair play?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-...is-chemical-weapons-depot-has-killed-hundreds
It is said that this can't happen exactly as stated - i.e. that sarin has to be prepared shortly before use (I guess if it were stored at liquid nitrogen temperatures or even maybe dry ice temperatures it would last a lot longer), so these incidents may require some deliberate actions by the terrorists.
This is a very, very interesting link, you have found.
David
Well of course, chlorine would not (rationally) be any better.I don't find anyone (other than "official" sources) who still thinks Sarin was among the CW exploded munitions... for the reasons you gave and also the videos of the "white helmets" emergency workers touching the victims without protection... apparently they'd be dead too if it was Sarin.
So most likely just Chlorine.
Whatever happened, I don't think it corresponds to the official story.
I've just heard on the radio Theresa May saying that British Scientists have examined material from the site and sarin, or something like sarin was used. And saying that only Syria was capable of delivering it. Case closed, its that simple!
It's always interesting what conspiracy theories people will believe.
Maybe Trump changed his mind on issues once he was in the Oval Office for the same reason Obama did? That the complexity of the issues in the world, compounded by classified information, shifts one's perspective?
I currently think it's wrong to murder, rape, and pillage the peasant villages, so if I just change my mind because I get indoctrinated with elitism, that's okay?
Well I'm not saying he's in the moral right necessarily. My point was that it's plausible that viewing things from the vantage point of the Oval Office changes a person.
I would agree that if this is the case he does need to provide the rational for his shifting decisions otherwise he will look as fake as Obama did to some of his constituents when people saw him as a continuation of Bush.
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Worth looking at Intercept. They're mad about Syria too, along with other military engagements. Also not happy about what they say is corporate welfare.
But they [are] also skeptical there's Russian meddling in the election.
Well I need a new news source