Posted on 04/15/2018 9:57:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
US President Donald Trump announced on Friday he ordered strikes on the Syrian regime in response to a chemical attack last weekend. He said the strikes were in coordination with France and the United Kingdom. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said his country is being "invaded" by the three countries. The Russian Embassy in the USA said in a statement that "insulting the President of Russia is unacceptable and inadmissible."
In a sensational statement, Trump asserted the Bashar Assad government used chemical weapons on civilians. He said "The evil and the despicable attack left mothers and fathers, infants and children thrashing in pain and gasping for air. These are not the actions of a man. They are crimes of a monster instead."Trump also warned "Russia must decide if it will continue down this dark path or if it will join with civilized nations as a force for stability and peace."
The facts cannot be distorted. This military strike was not authorized by the UN, and the strikes targeted a legal government of a UN member state. The US and its European allies launched strikes to punish President Bashar al-Assad for a suspected chemical attack in Duma last weekend. However, it has not been confirmed if the chemical weapons attack happened or if it did, whether government forces or opposition forces launched it. International organizations have not carried out any authoritative investigation.
The Syrian government has repeatedly stressed that there is no need for it to use chemical weapons to capture the opposition-controlled Duma city and the use of chemical weapons has provided an excuse for Western intervention. The Syrian government's argument or Trump's accusations against the "evil" Assad regime, which one is in line with basic logic? The answer is quite obvious.
The US has a record of launching wars on deceptive grounds. The Bush government asserted the Saddam regime held chemical weapons before the US-British coalition troops invaded Iraq in 2003. However, the coalition forces didn't find what they called weapons of mass destruction after overthrowing the Saddam regime. Both Washington and London admitted later that their intelligence was false.
Washington's attack on Syria where Russian troops are stationed constitute serious contempt for Russia's military capabilities and political dignity. Trump, like scolding a pupil, called on Moscow, one of the world's leading nuclear powers, to abandon its "dark path." Disturbingly, Washington seems to have become addicted to mocking Russia in this way. Russia is capable of launching a destructive retaliatory attack on the West. Russia's weak economy is plagued by Western sanctions and squeezing of its strategic space. That the West provokes Russia in such a manner is irresponsible for world peace.
The situation is still fomenting. The Trump administration said it will sustain the strikes. But how long will the military action continue and whether Russia will fight back as it claimed previously remain uncertain. Western countries continue bullying Russia but are seemingly not afraid of its possible counterattack. Their arrogance breeds risk and danger.
And they have cataracts.
And some have rinkins.
I just watched THE MEN WHO BUILT AMERICA: FRONTIERSMEN.
https://www.history.com/shows/the-men-who-built-america-frontiersmen
In episode four we learn how John C. Fremont sent American troops into Mexico to bait the Mexicans into an attack, and how President James K. Polk deliberately lied and told congress that the attack had occurred on American soil to get a declaration of war against Mexico.
And that’s how the US acquired California.
Tell us more about the occupation of Tibet.
So, if the history is true ( and I’m not saying it is ), California was taken from Mexico on DECEPTIVE GROUNDS?
But let’s talk about today -— Who instigated the poison gas attack in Syria? If it is the USA, to what end?
China has basically stolen millions of American jobs.
They do not buy anything from America, basically, but food. And Boeing airlines.
China, buy from America, or give back the jobs. Your choice.
Decide. Now.
This is a thread about the bombing in Syria, not about Trade. Let’s keep it to this topic.
Yeah, like when Japan invaded China? Then Germany tried to conquer the entire world? Then communist China invaded Korea after we helped save their bacon from Japan?
I’m not sure there was a poison gas attack. All we have is that cheesy video, much like the one used to justify the attack last year, showing a bunch of people wearing surgical masks milling around what could be a classroom and a bunch of children crying.
That thing just shrieks “wag the dog.”
Russia is attempting to expand their influence in the middle east by stationing themselves in Syria. Russia knows that they have placed themselves in harms way and they were notified in advance that an attack was imminent.
And they know that, should the Syrians retaliate the U.S. will respond with force and the Russians will be in harms way once again.
The Chinese are expanding in the Pacific by occupying islands and setting up military bases on them. Many countries in the region are concerned about the Chinese threat.
A confrontation with the Chinese about this expansionism will be occurring very soon.
RE: That thing just shrieks “wag the dog.”
So if not a poison gas attack, what was it then?
Are you saying that Trump was deceived into taking action and the Russians and Putin were right?
With all due respect, demanding China make a choice is wasted effort. They're going to continue to do what they've been doing, for as long as they can.
If we want jobs to come back, then we'll have to bring them back by buying American.
I appreciate your posting on this thread, but please, let’s focus on Syria (the topic of the thread), not trade.
Polk just drew a line at a different river in Tejas than mexico and sent scott to spank them.
The US wanted CALso as to be coast to coast and get mexico totally out.
Did you have problem with that version on the Frontiersman?
Polk was not the first president to go whole out on manifest destiny
You seem to be the one with the problem. I was just recounting the history.
America set up England in the Revolutionary War, a few drunk farmers went to Concord, Sam Adams fired his pistol and the Brits started shooting, starting the Revolution. War of 1812, An American plot to steal Canada that backfired and we had our capital burned. (Cost cutting by Jefferson reduced the military). Civil war, Lincoln, forced Rebels to open fire on Fort Sumter by supplying the fort to lock up one of the few seagoing ports in the CSA. WW I started when Wilson had England send the Lusitania (Traveling slow—in sub infested waters) full of rich Americans—to be sunk! WW II FDR, prods Japan to attack and moved the fleet to Hawaii (making sure the carriers were at sea). A case could be made for US using such tactics to get into wars. But, wars are started for more than one cause.
The title of the thread is:
“Chinese Op-Ed: US has a record of launching wars on deceptive grounds”
We were talking about a Chinese Op-Ed. Trade is a perfectly good subject to respond to.
They are our biggest trade issue. Bar none.
I may have misunderstood your post, peace out.
So what other causes were involved in President "Manifest Destiny" Polk's declaration of war against Mexico?
Peace back at ya.
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