Posted on 04/13/2018 12:36:34 AM PDT by familyop
Under a 2013 US-Russia deal that averted US-led strikes, Syria agreed to give up its chemical weapons stockpile and sign the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) which bans the use of toxic gases in warfare. The United States, Britain and France accuse Syria of violating those commitments by carrying out chemical attacks and failing to fully disclose its stockpile. The Swedish-drafted text calls for the establishment of an investigative panel to identify the perpetrators of chemical weapons use in Syria after Russia this week vetoed a US proposal to set up such a mechanism.
The Eurasian Russian trolls, Iranian Arab parasts and western neo-Nazis demand proof, but Russia will fight to stop anyone from seeing evidence.
Inspections? It worked so well in Iraq.
What team of morons wants to go to Syria during their civil war to inspect for chemical weapons?
My vote? Get out of Syria and leave it to the Syrians and the Russians. We do not have viable options that would be better than Assad, so we should stay out. Anything we do will either (1) prolong the civil war, or (2) replace Assad with someone far worse.
Gee whiz, we thought Obama and Kerry accomplished this 5 years ago. /s
Not going to rid Syria or the al-Assad of chemical weapons, period.
Al-Assad regime hands off what they do have to Russia, Russia asserts that Syria and al-Assad regime has no nukes (as does the retards who seek to verify). Once all quiets down, Russia quietly hands them back to Syria and the al-Assad regime.
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This last attack was with chlorine gas which is potent and lethal. The lethality of nerve agents is many times greater. Syria’s Assad has the capability to manufacture these agents. Chemically the synthesis is not that much different than making pesticides. If you can make bug killer you can make potent nerve agents.
Assad did not do this. I think Assad is an evil SOB. I do not think he did this. He with Russian help is winning. Why in the hell do something that is strategically of little importance but will result in serious hell from the USA, France, and Britain. It does not make sense.
I truly think this is a false flag operation.
What?
Does anyone in the West have a plan beyond "Assad must go because he's bad, so what if the rest are worse"?
Exactly. He's an evil SOB, but the alternatives are worse. Bomb him and the Christians in Syria will undergo genocide -- why do all the anti-Assad cheerleaders not realize that?
You got my vote as well. And the day after President Trump announces all military out of Syria.
A Swedish “an investigative panel” would consist of mostly ‘Asian immigrants’ ...
“We do not have viable options that would be better than Assad, so we should stay out. “
Reminds me of the Bush people bragging about having an exit strategy when the Iraq and Afghan wars got going, and especially how well it worked out when we got rid of Saddam. It turned out to be a mess all the way around where we actually destabilized the region and let Iran become more powerful when Saddam was actually keeping them at bay. Not to mention the cost of American lives and dollars spent.
We don’t have a better plan than Assad. We should just keep the hell out.
The only possible reason I’d want to get red of Assad is so I could personally take in his hot wife as a refugee.
There’s one characteristic that many conspiracy theorists have in common: an abnormal extent of narcissism.
Here’s a reiteration of the topic for this thread in regards to Russia blocking an investigation and trying to hide the evidence of the gas attack against civilians.
Russia Stood Alone. China Didn’t Help Vote Down Trump’s Syria UN Resolution
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3647183/posts
“It’s common knowledge that Islamic State has already been effectively shut down in the region”
Thanks to Trump, not that he gets any credit. Did more in a year than Obama did during his entire tenure.
The situation has gotten a lot simpler. ISIS has been pushed into the desert and the occasional small town (except in southwest Syria, where Assad has been ignoring them in order to go after everyone else). Al Nusra has all been pushed to Idlib where they’re being systematically wiped out by Turkey as Turkey unifies the province under the control of their own militias and military; there’s not much of them left. They have a “join us or be wiped out” policy, so bit by bit all of the Arab opposition is ending up under their control. The Kurds are basically a protectorate of the US. And then you have Assad/Russia/Iran controlled soldiers and militias. More and more, there’s really just three parties “plus change” with actual people in Syria (plus a couple like Israel, who just occasionally comes in to bomb Iranians)
JMHO. Who does the destabilization help? Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey. Can't imagine that citizens of the countries that suffered under regime change benefit from their gaining more power.
In Europe and in Ukraine, who benefits? Germany is fighting WW3, and winning.
The Swedes must have decided that a slow agonizing suicide makes no sense when they can grab Syria’s gas and chemicals and kill themselves quickly.
Nice idea but doomed to fail. No one in Syria reads Swedish.
Meanwhile, the EU is doing big biz with Iran.
Go figure.
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