U.S. Fires Missiles at Assad Airbase, Escalating Tensions with Russia

April 7th, 2017

Well, Hillary supporters, maybe you’ll get that war with Russia anyway.

Via: Reuters:

The United States on Friday fired dozens of cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase from which it said a deadly chemical weapons attack was launched this week, an escalation of the U.S. military role in Syria that immediately raised tension with Russia.

Just hours after U.S. President Donald Trump announced he had ordered the attack, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin said the strike had seriously damaged ties between Washington and Moscow.

Two U.S. warships fired 59 cruise missiles from the eastern Mediterranean Sea at the Syrian airbase controlled by the forces of President Bashar al-Assad in response to a poison gas attack in a rebel-held area on Tuesday, U.S. officials said.

Putin, a staunch ally of Assad, regarded the U.S. action as “aggression against a sovereign nation” on a “made-up pretext” and a cynical attempt to distract the world from civilian deaths in Iraq, his spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, was cited as saying by agencies.

It was the toughest direct U.S. action yet in Syria’s six-year-old civil war and leaves Trump facing his biggest foreign policy crisis since his Jan. 20 inauguration, raising the risk of confrontation with Russia and Iran, Assad’s two main military backers.

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4 Responses to “U.S. Fires Missiles at Assad Airbase, Escalating Tensions with Russia”

  1. Loveandlight says:

    I agree with Mike Whitney’s assessment of the situation. And I also feel very vindicated in my decision to refuse to swallow either of the poison pills offered by our vapid political duopoly last November.

  2. rototillerman says:

    Well, it didn’t take long for Trump to fall in line with the Deep State agenda, now did it? I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Sweet Jesus, we’re f*cked.

  3. Eileen says:

    Didn’t vote for either Trump or Clinton, but “threw” my vote to Stine. Couldn’t stomach either one of these “candidates.” Ye verily @ rototellerman – and @loveandlight anything I could say would only repeat what you both wrote.
    If I could add anything, its like GWBush all over again. Bomb a sovereign nation just because you “feel like it.” Somebody REALLY WANTS the GAS PIPELINE through Syria, and it ain’t Russia.
    STUPID. STUPID. STUPID. What does Trump want? That is my question? War or peace? Better choose the pill dude. You can bomb the world to pieces but you CANNOT BOMB IT INTO PEACE.

    Michael Franti and Spearhead

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICL-4Onk0PA

  4. cryingfreeman says:

    Well, I’m sure you can imagine my shock at this.

    So here we are, a few months into his presidency and he has turned the heat up on Russia’s ally, Syria, and China’s ally, North Korea.

    Hmm, I wonder what the endgame here is…

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