Trump Rockets Syrian Bases

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https://twitter.com/JustinRaimondo/status/849751305346195456

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https://twitter.com/RorschachRockw1/status/850703676998115328

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http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/world/us-and-russia-tensions-continue-in-the-wake-of-donald-trumps-missile-strike-on-syria/news-story/e08682113e57b87ac3110b33225cb31a

THE US Navy said Saturday it had sent a carrier-led strike group to the Korean peninsula in a show of force against North Korea's "reckless" nuclear weapons program.

The move will raise tensions in the region and comes hard on the heels of a US missile strike on Syria that was widely interpreted as putting Pyongyang on warning over its refusal to abandon its nuclear ambitions.

North Korea denounced Thursday's strike as an act of "intolerable aggression" and one that justified "a million times over" the North's push toward a credible nuclear deterrent.

"US Pacific Command ordered the Carl Vinson Strike Group north as a prudent measure to maintain readiness and presence in the Western Pacific," said Commander Dave Benham, spokesman at US Pacific Command.

"The number one threat in the region continues to be North Korea, due to its reckless, irresponsible and destabilising program of missile tests and pursuit of a nuclear weapons capability," he told AFP, in an unusually forceful statement.

Originally scheduled to make port calls in Australia, the strike group — which includes the Nimitz-class aircraft supercarrier USS Carl Vinson is now headed from Singapore to the Western Pacific Ocean.

Pyongyang is on a quest to develop a long-range missile capable of hitting the US mainland with a nuclear warhead, and has so far staged five nuclear tests, two of them last year.

Expert satellite imagery analysis suggests it could well be preparing for a sixth, with US intelligence officials warning that Pyongyang could be less than two years away from developing a nuclear warhead that could reach the continental United States.

North Korea on Wednesday fired a medium-range ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan ahead of a US-China summit.

In February the North simultaneously fired four ballistic missiles off its east coast, three of which fell provocatively close to Japan, in what it said was a drill for an attack on US bases in the neighbouring Asian country.


Yes, North Korea is an issue if they develop an intercontinental weapon of mass destruction, however, what happens now if there is a war with Russia and Syria, North Korea and China? Does he feel he can win?

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Is Assad to Blame for the Chemical Weapons Attack in Syria?
M. von Hein | Deutsche Welle (Germany)
http://www.dw.com/en/is-assad-to-blame-for-the-chemical-weapons-attack-in-syria/a-38330217

Extract: Is the regime of President Bashar al-Assad responsible for the chemical weapons attack in northern Syria? Experts suggest it could have been jihadi rebels. It wouldn't be the first time. / More than 80 people were killed by suspected chemical weapons in Khan Sheikhoun. That is about the only thing certain about the attack. Western statements place blame at the feet of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, an accusation Damascus and Moscow contest. The Syrian regime may not have had a compelling motive, believes Günther Meyer, the director of the Research Center for the Arab World at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. "Only armed opposition groups could profit from an attack with chemical weapons," he told DW.


Trump's Syria Strike Is Latest Sign of Steve Bannon's Waning Influence
G. Sherman - New York magazine
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/04/trumps-syria-strike-is-sign-of-bannons-waning-influence.html

Extract: Donald Trump's surprise decision to launch missile strikes against Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's forces in response to Tuesday's horrific chemical attack represented a reversal from Trump's noninterventionist campaign message. It's also the most recent sign of the declining power of his chief strategist Stephen Bannon. Two sources close to Bannon told me the former Breitbart executive chairman argued against the strike - not because of its questionable constitutionality, but on the grounds that it doesn't advance Trump's America First doctrine. "Steve doesn't think we belong there," one Bannon ally told me. Bannon's position lost out to those inside the White House, including Jared Kushner, who argued Trump needed to punish the Assad regime.

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This Isn't the Foreign Policy Trump Campaigned On
Robert W. Merry | The American Conservative
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/this-isnt-the-foreign-policy-trump-campaigned-on

Extract: It may be too early to tell for sure, but Donald Trump is looking more and more like a phony. He's also looking like a weakling. And a political ingrate. All this is coming into stark relief with accelerating events involving Syria. The United States launched dozens of missiles against Syrian military installations to retaliate for the chemical attack on rebel-held territory. Thus did Trump demonstrate that, to the extent that his foreign policy differs from that of his predecessor, it is more aggressive and adventuresome than Obama's. That's the opposite of how he campaigned ... It seems our new president is wrapping himself in Wilsonian garb, sending American forces out into far-flung precincts of the globe in behalf of humanitarian sentiments.


Trump's Senseless Syria Strikes Accomplish Nothing
M. Bayoumi | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/06/donald-trumps-senseless-syria-strikes-accomplish-nothing

Extract: ... But what will the US's military strike - a barrage of at least 59 (offensively named) Tomahawk cruise missiles aimed at a lone airfield - really accomplish? ... The administration seems to have no vision of what it wants to accomplish or what it can accomplish. Trump ended his announcement of Thursday's strike with the modest goal of ending "terrorism of all kinds and all types." Good luck with that. Meanwhile, the heart of the problem is that the United States seems always to have only one solution to war: make more war ...  At its best, Thursday's reckless and largely ineffective bombing does little but make US lawmakers feel good about themselves. At its worst, it deepens a war which the US has no idea how to end.


Another Dangerous Rush to Judgment in Syria
Robert Parry | Consortium News
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/04/05/another-dangerous-rush-to-judgment-in-syria/

Extract: With the latest hasty judgment about Tuesday's poison-gas deaths in a rebel-held area of northern Syria, the mainstream U.S. news media once more reveals itself to be a threat to responsible journalism and to the future of humanity ... Even as basic facts were still being assembled about Tuesday's incident, we, the public, were prepped to disbelieve the Syrian government's response that the poison gas may have come from rebel stockpiles that could have been released either accidentally or intentionally causing the civilian deaths in a town in Idlib Province. One possible scenario was that Syrian warplanes bombed a rebel weapons depot where the poison gas was stored, causing the containers to rupture.


Why the Syrian Gas Attack is Probably Fake
Colin Liddell | Occidental Observer
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2017/04/why-the-syrian-gas-attack-is-probably-fake/

Extract: ... Once again, the media - and, sadly, the Trump administration - is in overdrive about what is claimed to be a gas attack on the Syrian town of Khan Sheikoun by the Assad government ... Sorry, but it seems ridiculous to try to launch a gas attack that kills a few dozen people in a civil war that has already killed between 321,000-400,000 people when it will be condemned by virtually everyone, and has been used in the past as a pretext for US involvement ... Another possibility is that a normal bomb, shell, rocket hit an opposition chemical weapons depot. Again there is no reason why this is impossible ... It is clear then that the most likely explanation for this tragic event is either an accident (as claimed by Russia: the rebels accidentally detonating their own sarin) or a false flag, and certainly not an intentional action by the Assad government.

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