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*** 9-Apr-18 World View -- Trump threatens 'big price to pay' after Assad's chemical weapons attack in Syria

This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
  • New chemical weapon attack in Syria kills 48, hospitalizes hundreds
  • Trump threatens 'big price to pay' after Assad's chemical weapons attack in Syria
  • Syria reports that it's under missile attack, 'likely' by the US

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**** New chemical weapon attack in Syria kills 48, hospitalizes hundreds
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Medical workers treat toddlers following chlorine gas attack in Douma, Syria, on Sunday (AP)

At least 48 people were killed in a chemical weapons attack on
Saturday on the town of Douma in in eastern Ghouta, believed by
international officials to have been perpetrated by Syria's president
Bashar al-Assad.

In addition to those killed, at least 500 more people brought into
overwhelmed medical centers and hospitals. Videos recorded by rescue
workers known as the White Helmets, show a number of men, women and
children lying lifeless, many with foam at their mouths.

The chemical weapon in the attack was chlorine, which is particularly
used by al-Assad to attack and kill women and children. Chlorine is
repeatedly used by al-Assad because it is heavier than air. Therefore
it seeps into basements where women and children are likely to be
hiding from al-Assad's missiles and barrel bombs. Once the chlorine
seeps into the basements where women and children are hiding, the
women and children are forced out into the open, where al-Assad's
missiles and barrel bombs can slaughter them en masse. The
foaming at the mouth by victims suggests that Sarin gas was also used.

Syrian state media accused "terrorist" media of fabricating reports
about a chemical attack.

Russia's foreign ministry said reports of a chemical attack by Syrian
forces on Douma had been "planted" in order to create a pretext for a
possible military intervention in Syria:

<QUOTE>"The purpose of these mendacious conjectures, which
are without any basis, is to shield the terrorists and the
irreconcilable radical opposition, which rejects a political
settlement, while at the same time trying to justify possible
external use of force."<END QUOTE>


So we're going through the usual song and dance of listening to
Russian officials make these laughable statements, as if the rest of
us are stupid enough to believe them. Russian officials have lied so
many times about almost every subject, so anything that Russia says
has no credibility, and is as worthless as garbage.

And we can expect the usual flood of Russian internet trolls repeating
the same nonsense supplied by their trollmasters.

During the past 15 months, since Donald Trump took office, there
Bashar al-Assad has launched at least eight chemical weapons attacks,
including one Sarin gas nerve agent attack on April 4 of last year.
BBC
and AP and CNN and USA Today

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**** Trump threatens 'big price to pay' after Assad's chemical weapons attack in Syria
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President Donald Trump called Bashar al-Assad an "animal" in a series
of tweets on Sunday, and appeared to commit the US to retaliating to
Sunday's attack, not only against Syria but possibly also at Russia.

In 2012, President Barack Obama announced a "red line" that threatened
an American military retaliation if Bashar al-Assad used chemical
weapons on his own people. The US military even sent troops to Jordan
to take action
against the use of chemical weapons. However, when Bashar al-Assad used Sarin gas on his own people
in 2013, Obama backed down from his threat, signaling to
al-Assad that he could continue to use chemical weapons with impunity.
And he has done that, with eight verified uses of chlorine gas and
Sarin gas in the last 15 months alone.

A year ago, Donald Trump responded to al-Assad's Sarin gas attack with
a surprise cruise missile attack on al-Assad's airports, wiping out
part of his air force. However, that did nothing to stop al-Assad
from continuing to use chemical weapons on women and children, or to
stop Russia from supporting his use of chemical weapons on women and
children.

Sunday's chemical weapons attack drew a very angry twitter response
from president Trump:

<QUOTE>"Many dead, including women and children, in mindless
CHEMICAL attack in Syria. Area of atrocity is in lockdown and
encircled by Syrian Army, making it completely inaccessible to
outside world. President Putin, Russia and Iran are responsible
for backing Animal Assad. Big price...

....to pay. Open area immediately for medical help and
verification. Another humanitarian disaster for no reason
whatsoever. SICK!

If President Obama had crossed his stated Red Line In The Sand,
the Syrian disaster would have ended long ago! Animal Assad would
have been history!"<END QUOTE>


Trump appears to be setting a new red line, and is blaming Russia's
president Vladimir Putin for the first time, as well as referring to
"Animal Assad." If Trump shows weakness after issuing these tweets,
then his negotiating position in North Korea will be very weak.

The US has also called for an emergency meeting of the United Nations
Security Council on Monday.

The most likely response, if any, is a missile attack similar to the
one launched last year. However, some analysts are suggesting that
Russia should be sanctioned directly by withdrawing the highly
prestigious international World Cup Football (soccer) competition
sponsored by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association
(FIFA) from Moscow, where it's scheduled to begin on June 14. Some
people are suggesting that Vladimir Putin should not be permitted to
glory in sponsoring the FIFA World Cup just two months after
sponsoring the use of chemical weapons by war criminal Bashar
al-Assad. CNN and NBC News and Guardian (London)

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**** Syria reports that it's under missile attack, 'likely' by the US
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As this article is being written on Sunday evening (ET), Syria's state
media is reporting that Syria's T4 airbase (Tayfur airport) near the
city of Homs is under missile attack, with resulting casualties, in a
"likely attack by the United States." Reports say that 12 people have
been killed, and that eight missiles were shot down by Syrian air
defenses.

Senior US officials are not denying that a missile attack is taking
place, but are denying that the US is responsible. Assuming that it's
not the US launching missiles, then it suggests that another country
in the American-led coalition is launching the missile attack.

Governments from both Britain and France on Sunday both joined in
America's strong condemnation of al-Assad's use of chlorine gas on his
own people, including women and children. Both countries have also
issued strong condemnations of Russia for the March 4 poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia,
using a Russia-developed nerve
agent Novichok, in Salisbury, Britain. Trump and France's president
Emmanuel Macron issued a "strong joint response" to al-Assad. So it's
possible that either Britain or France is launching the attack. It's
also possible that Israel is launching the attack. BBC

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KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Syria, Eastern Ghouta, Douma, Bashar al-Assad,
Russia, Sarin gas, chlorine gas, Donald Trump,
Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin,
World Cup, Fédération Internationale de Football Association, FIFA,
Tayfur airport, T4 airbase, Homs, Britain, France

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