ISIS Used Chemical Arms at Least 52 Times in Syria and Iraq ...
Nov 21, 2016 · More than one-third of the chemical attacks, which include chlorine and sulfur mustard agents, have come in and around Mosul, the group’s stronghold in Iraq.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/world/middleeast/i
Before we risk nuclear war with Russia, it would be really nice to have PROOF that Isis/Deep State allies haven’t set up another false flag and blamed it on Assad.
It's worth pointing out the disinformation sowing/pinning chemical attacks on rebels is basic, common Russian practice stretching back long before this particular one to when Putin first got involved in the region.
The confusion itself...even on our part, is often the goal. Russian KGB experts, claim that antics like this in Syria (and spy poisonings like the one in UK) act as tests of our reactions and are timed accordingly.
They have two goals:
1) Incite a response from us, knowing full well we won't do anything too crazy for fear of nuclear war.
2) Which then incites a response from the Russian public. Putin relies on Russia's 'besieged fortress' mentality for legitimacy. (I have lived there, just after Crimea debacle. I see how dredging up Anti-Western, Anti-American sentiment works.)
So in Syria's case:
* The Kremlin wants to see how Trump would respond, given his pullout commitment. Then, Nikki Haley's UN speech accusing Russia replays over and over on State TV on the evening news. And the idea is: USA declaring war on Russia.
* The Skirpal spy poisoning in the U.K. - was timed just before Putin's election, and just after the Olympics doping fiasco.
All of this is: “...part of the psychological war of Russia and the West and its own compatriots." According to Russian KGB expert and author of "The FSB Blows Up Russia" Ilya Milshteyn has this to say about the Skirpal spy poisoning. (But it applies to Syria antics too!)
The Kremlin’s latest murderous attack had both foreign and domestic goals. “It is not excluded,” he says, that Moscow wanted to test the personality of the British prime minister who had to be forced to pursue the Litvinenko case but now is prepared to be more forceful, something that in this case fits in with the Kremlin’s plans."
And then Milshteyn gets to the heart of the matter: “Life in a besieged fortress,” he says, “is filled with enthusiasm when the enemy it shooting at it. But a fortress which everyone has forgotten about … is a sad spectacle.” To ensure that attacks keep coming, the master of that fortress must continue to launch attacks of various kinds in order to get a reaction.
"Putin wants to orchestrate “a permanent Caribbean crisis” and he thinks that the West will ultimately fold “out of fear of a nuclear..."
http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2018/03/unlike-in-litvinenko-case-putin-wanted.html?m=1