Trump: US, France and UK launch strikes on Syria

[Niaraa]

Nothing will happen. Bachar Al Assad are testing the coalition limits. Russian call UN (they perfectly know UN is useless). the only escalation today is TV news chanal profits.

[Templar 331]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...rWC?li=BBnb7Kz

There were no immediate reports of casualties, with Damascus allies saying the buildings hit had been evacuated in advance.

First question: How did they know they were about to be hit?
Second question: Did they only evacuate personal or did they also evacuate equipment? If so, did these strikes do any real damage?

[lonely zergling]

So who is going to bomb US/France/Uk now for the illegal attack last night? Wait.. you say the rules dont matter for them?

Hypocrites.

[Templar 331]

Russia is pretending that USA fired at them directly. I really don't understand Russia's strategy of being allied with scum like Assad. What is it? Pipelines? Oil? Access to the Mediterranean see?

Victim complex to give right to any action that they take afterward. They ally with scum(Assad) because they know we'll attack and afterward pretend it was directed at Russia. Russia feels threatened and use that feeling to justify what happens next. More than likely Putin will pull another Crimea somewhere where we can't counter.

[Ghostpanther]

So they report 70-ish missiles being intercepted out of 103.

30-something hits, from 3 big NATO countries. Doesn't seem like this can make much of an impact, does it?

I will await the US reports on how many were shot down and impacted the targets. Not going to accept what the Russians say. At first, they said no missiles got past their air defenses. When they realized that would be easily seen as a big fat lie, they changed it to not more than 30 hit their targets
out of 103. :P

[Fargus]

When has Trump ever shown he really cares about anyone but himself? If this is the case here, and he actually cares for the people there, great! If not, it seems like a distraction, especially with the Comey stuff coming out.

It's more the military and intelligence agencies of the US and UK that turn a blind eye to Yemen because Saudi Arabia is of economical benefit to them. Wouldn't matter who was in the driver's seat, the policies would be the same.

[hellhamster]

What a waste of 300 million dollars. I guess Americans can all thank the "media" for making Assad a bigger bad guy than he is.

Anyway, what actually happened is reverting back to the moderate route:

Trump can save face by saying he did something.
The Russians can claim no need for involvement since damage was minimal.
Assad can go back to repel invading facti-, eerhm I mean killing women and children for indiscernible reasons.

[Kraenen]

Fucking hell.

At least you get to see the world go to shit, like you've always wanted.

[JohnBrown1917]

Fuck Trump. Fuck May and fuck Macron.


Also fuck Rutte for looking so disappointed they did not ask him to join in.

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What a waste of 300 million dollars. I guess Americans can all thank the "media" for making Assad a bigger bad guy than he is.

Anyway, what actually happened is reverting back to the moderate route:

Trump can save face by saying he did something.
The Russians can claim no need for involvement since damage was minimal.
Assad can go back to repel invading facti-, eerhm I mean killing women and children for indiscernible reasons.

Meanwhile, Flint is still without water.

America first, eh?

[Zelk]

The left wanted this, the establishment conservatives wanted this, the media wanted this, the military wanted this, pretty much everyone except those who voted Trump wanted this but you point the finger and Trumpers anyway.

Nice.

The left are famous for wanting the US and it's allies to bomb anti-imperialist nations

[JohnBrown1917]

Russia is pretending that USA fired at them directly. I really don't understand Russia's strategy of being allied with scum like Assad. What is it? Pipelines? Oil? Access to the Mediterranean see?

The US is allied with Turkey, Israel and Saudi Arabia, so its not like they have any ground to stands on.

[craigw]

Congratulations on WWIII, Trumpers.

Russia has already stood down and deactiveated every anti air defense system they have in syria. Russia is all talk. they only have the balls to bully the weak.

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And no consulting with Congress before attacking Syria? Let's add that to the list of hypocritical shit he's done.

That and announcing you're going to attack before you attack....

you are aware they started attacking well before he announced it. you are aware that the president only needs congressional approval to engage in war. this is not war its a conflict.

[JohnBrown1917]

The left are famous for wanting the US and it's allies to bomb anti-imperialist nations

Very famous, the most famous, just look at all the left wing news sources who are loving this.

[Intuitive]

Russia has already stood down and deactiveated every anti air defense system they have in syria. Russia is all talk. they only have the balls to bully the weak.

An American complaining that another country bullies the weak...the irony.

[Templar 331]

you are aware they started attacking well before he announced it.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...22625440747520

3:57 AM - 11 Apr 2018

you are aware that the president only needs congressional approval to engage in war. this is not war its a conflict.

I am aware of the War Powers Act.

[hellhamster]

Russians say the Syrians intercepted 70% of the missiles.

Pentagon says the Syrians intercepted 0% of the missiles.

This is becoming more and more interesting.

[JohnBrown1917]

There is nothing interesting about the pathological lies that Russia spews.

Meanwhile the US never lies.

[Dundebuns]

And no consulting with Congress before attacking Syria? Let's add that to the list of hypocritical shit he's done.

That and announcing you're going to attack before you attack....

The british PM also launched attacks without consulting parliament, because she knew that she would get voted down again.

[CostinR]

All of the EU is more or less lining up behind Trump, Macron and May.

Russia better learn a lesson and learn it quick here. There's a lot Europe will tolerate from Russia but they've pushed it beyond any limit. Either reign Assad in or NATO will do it for you.

[Video Games]

Well how much longer could we let syria go on like this? It ain't gonna fix itself.