Boris Johnson told to call off Kremlin mission Britain and America will this week directly accuse Russia of complicity in war crimes in Syria and demand that Vladimir Putin pull the rug from Bashar al-Assad’s blood-soaked regime.
Rex Tillerson — President Donald Trump’s secretary of state — will fly to Moscow to confront Russia with evidence that it had knowledge of, and sought to cover up, the regime’s deadly sarin strike last week that left 87 people dead.
Turning the screws on the Kremlin, Sir Michael Fallon, the defence secretary, accused Russia of being “by proxy responsible for every civilian death last week” because “this latest war crime happened on their watch”.
We have a saying. "Dogs keep barking but caravan goes on."
Posturing of some western figureheads means precisely that. Posturing. For audience of dimwits.
Meanwhile, on the ground it is clear that Americans and Russians are cooperating via proxies. Kurds on US and government troops on Russias side. Territory of both ISIS (proxy of Saudi Arabia) and Al Qaeda (Turkey) is rapidly dwindling.
Affectionate pointing at government of Syria for using chemical weapons against its own populace is nothing new. It is about fourth time since conflict started. All previous attacks were investigated and eventually found to be doing of Turkey supported jihadists. Only this time did US limited action and only after advanced warning to russian MoD. Possible reasons could be show of strength for new adminstration and reassurement of gulf Arab states, that US did not abandon them yet.
For Assad, who previously abandoned chemical weapons (2014) in favour of russian intervention, it makes exactly zero sense to use WMDs in urban ares at the time, that his and allied forces are winning one engagement after another. He would not be a dictator then. But retarded autist.
Make up your mind, people. One can be either evil, scheming villain or retarded butcher. But not both.
