Russia

[Gandalf]

Where is the evidence to say Assad did anything? He must be a glutton for punishment if every time he is on the brink of destroying ISIS he unleashes the old chemical weapons. Like with the UK 'attack' none of it makes any sense. Stay out of it, don't arm anyone, and protect your borders.

[Beanz]

Where is the evidence to say Assad did anything? He must be a glutton for punishment if every time he is on the brink of destroying ISIS he unleashes the old chemical weapons. Like with the UK 'attack' none of it makes any sense. Stay out of it, don't arm anyone, and protect your borders.

Miles in stead of repeating what PJW and Prison Planet tell you to think, try thinking very simply and logically for yourself. You are I am assuming, surely brighter than PJW, but for some reason are very happy for him to do your thinking for you. But his is an entirely fallacious logic. Was America not on the brink of victory when it dropped bombs on Japan? Assad does not care one jot about his international image because he has Moscow covering his back. How can you turn a blind eye to the thousands killed by both sides and Assad torturing his opponents to death in prisons, just to pretend that Putin is one of the good guys. Neither Washington nor Moscow give a fuck about Syria, you watch them go to war over the bodies of thousands of more innocent Arab civilians or carve up the middle east between themselves in the name of stability.

All the Syrians I have met and also refugees and immigrants from across the region have said that both the east and west, Russia and America have always made things worse. The Sunni vs Shia over simplification is just that and is used to shut up the masses whilst the war machine lines the pockets of those feasting at the top tables.

[brocktonblockbust]

Dude remember I lived in Istanbul for 14 months and Syrian refugees were being housed in the ghetto town that I was living in called KUMKAPI. I spoke with literally hundreds of these people over the course of that time and they were all saying the opposite of what you are saying.

[Gandalf]

I make my own mind up, Beanz. I have no evidence and neither do you. We do however see a pattern of chemical attack usage and that seems to be largely denied in the West. Let us never repeat the mistakes of Iraq.

[brocktonblockbust]

I have to say and I'm sure most people agree this whole Syria thing is the most confusing geopolitical thing that I can remember in my lifetime. Inside Syria you have now Turkish army forces and Kurdish forces and Iranian special militia and Isis and Al nusra front and most special agents then you have the FSA free Syrian Army then you have American Special Forces then of course you have Assad's own military. Not to mention Russia. I mean we're literally talking about seven or eight or nine different players in there even if there is some redundancy and some are just extensions of others or secret allies of others there is still literally five or six different groups inside Syria all claiming to have bombed each other and all claiming to have committed atrocities. This is the most unbelievable and enigmatic thing that I can remember in my lifetime. Who knows who dropped the chemical bomb yesterday? Who knows who retaliated with missiles on the T for military base? It looks like it may have been in Israel now