The UN attempted such an investigation - and Russia vetoed the effort. Gee, I wonder why Putin wants no investigation into a chemical weapons attack?
I wonder why an “ex” KGB colonel is opposed to searching for the truth of the matter in gassing civilians?
My guess is that Putin supplied the chemical weapons to Assad, just like he supplied chemical and nuclear weapons materials to Saddam Hussein, then having the same transported into Syria just days before the U.S. invaded Iraq. AND just as he provided nuclear weapons technology to Iran.
Anybody here who thinks Russia is a “democracy” is smoking crack. Putin, and his Gasprom oligarchs are still the same bunch of filthy commie bastards that ran the “old” Soviet Union - but perhaps these thugs are more dangerous now than when they were the USSR.
So your answer is what? Depose Assad and help ISIS? That’s absurd. The Russians have a way larger interest in Syria than we do, those countries are right on their doorstep. Assad is a bad guy, but so are a whole lot of players in that region. We support regimes, not all the much different than Assad’s. Have we learned nothing? We forced the Shah out and got Khomeini, we got rid of Saddam and got 10 plus years of chaos and thousands of American lives lost. It’s time to worry about this country.
Categorically false, both Syria and Russia welcome an independent CW investigation in Douma.
In fact, an international team from OPCW is enroute to Douma to conduct an independent investigation at the invitation of the Syrian government with Russian troops providing security.
Western interventionists won't be able to manipulate the results of this OPCW investigation they way they did in the aftermath of the 2017 sarin poisoning incident in Khan Sheikhoun.
Which is why the Russians vetoed the US sponsored plan at the UN, it was a repeat of the flawed investigation in 2017.