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Title: Scandal-Plagued Trump Lurches to Conflict Without Investigating Alleged Gas Attack
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URL Source: https://www.mintpressnews.com/every ... ing-alleged-gas-attack/240329/
Published: Apr 11, 2018
Author: Elliott Gabriel
Post Date: 2018-04-11 09:28:24 by Ada
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Trump’s attempt to impulsively jump back into the Syrian mess runs the risk of sparking a real shooting-war between the U.S. Armed Forces and Russia’s mission in Syria – upping the ante drastically in the former “Apprentice” host’s bid to boost the U.S. intervention in Syria. WASHINGTON — World powers are reacting with increased urgency and alarm following scandal-plagued U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats of an imminent military strike against Syria following an alleged weekend chemical attack in Douma. Trump claimed that the war-torn country’s allies, including Russia and Iran, are bound to “pay a price” for the incident, which is yet to be investigated by international monitors. The curious hysteria from Washington not only comes before any investigation has been allowed to take place, but also comes on the heels of a particularly egregious development in the never-ending scandal circus swirling around the U.S. president: an FBI raid on the office of the former reality star’s longtime lawyer. Syrian authorities and their allies maintain that they played no role in the chemical weapons attack, which killed at least 60 people and affected hundreds in Douma, the town that lies near Damascus and is the last rebel stronghold in an eight-year civil war pitting government forces and their allies against a disparate coalition of Islamist insurgents. The insurgents are backed by Gulf Arab rivals Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which often seemed just as opposed to each other as they were to the Syrian government. On Sunday, the Russian Foreign Ministry explicitly rejected the reports as fake news aimed at justifying new military strikes and warned of the stakes involved in the fast-developing international drama: We recently warned of the possibility of such dangerous provocations … We have to say once again that military interference in Syria, where Russian forces have been deployed at the request of the legitimate government, under contrived and false pretexts, is absolutely unacceptable and can lead to very grave consequences.” Watch | Aftermath of suspected chemical attack in rebel-held Douma in Syria Send in the inspectors China has conveyed its desire to see a “comprehensive, objective and impartial investigation” take place “that can stand the test of history” and ensure justice, according to China’s deputy permanent representative to the UN, Wu Haitao. At a regular press briefing in Beijing Tuesday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang also expressed alarm at the language coming from Washington regarding “forcefully” responding to the alleged attack, which he characterized as “prejudg[ing] the results and com[ing] to conclusions randomly.”
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#1. To: Ada (#0)
Trump has gone full neocon. Perhaps he always was and was just pretending to be different. THAT, or they switched him with a surgically altered double.
"After tomorrow those SOB's will never embarrass me again. That’s not a threat. That’s a promise.” – LBJ to his mistress Madeleine Brown on the eve of JFK assassination 
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