1) For everyone hemming and hawwing over the latest Syria news: do a bit of fucking research. Forreal. Just, like, 5 minutes of fucking research.
2) thenational.ae/world/mena/ass… Assad has dropped close to 70,000 barrel bombs over the course of this war. This has never been a secret or a conspiracy. The UN told him to stop, he never stopped, Obama never struck back at him for it.
3) "The report also charts the Assad regime’s use of chemical agents, deployed through barrel bombs. It states that in 2014 the regime began “adding poison chemical substances in the form of cylinders carrying a poison gas” to the bombs, noting 87 instances of attacks"
4) "But he's winning! Why would he use them if he's winning! He's a rational actor!" You're thinking WESTERN rationality, wherein someone who's winning suddenly holds back for like, no goddamn reason, where we have this magical belief that captured territory is peaceful and shit
5) First: No one ever stopped him from using chemical weapons before. It wasn't until Trump that anyone actually took a serious shot back at him for the use of chemical weapons.
6) Second: He is a dictator. His power depends on how much he can coerce people into fearing him. Do you even know what barrel bombs are? Do you know why they're so absolutely fucked up as a weapon?
7) They are literally barrels filled with explosives, shrapnels, chemical gas, loaded up into helicopters and archaic fucking aircraft, flown over a population center where you literally CANNOT MISS, and then lit and dropped off the side
8) I'm not kidding. No guidance systems, no targeting, nothing. They are literally dropped over the side, bombs away. They go over civilian population centers because the goal is to kill as many people as possible, period. End of fucking story.
9) No one screamed false flags over the past decade. Everyone knew that these were being used. No one did SHIT. These weapons are fucking horrific, and even without chemical weapons they are indiscriminate atrocities delivered by the barrel.
10) Now you want to scream false flag? Now you want Trump to back down and not do anything? Fuck that. See, this isn't about Syria. Oh fuck no this is not ultimately about Syria.
11) This is about sending a message to Russia, to Iran, to the Houthis, to ISIS, to North Korea, to two-bit African fuckhead warlords, to dictators worldwide.
12) Ruling via fear and atrocities is over. Ruling via dropping barrels of indiscriminate murder onto neighborhoods via rickety ass soviet hand-me-down helicopters is DONE.
13) You do this? You start dropping barrel bombs on civilians because you want to show them how much power you have, that you can randomly kill them at will with no repercussions? You get tomahawk missiles hitting you in the fucking dick.
14) Israeli jets are going to fuck up your airbase, at will haaretz.com/israel-news/ru…
15) Those were Quds Force Iranians killed at that base, btw. Good riddance.
16) We're not dumb. We're not going to launch some kind of fucking ground invasion. We're going to do to Assad what Assad's been doing to his people.
17) We're going to use our VASTLY SUPERIOR technology and outright air dominance to annihilate his ability to terrorize and massacre his own people. We are going to destroy hundreds of millions worth of military equipment. We are going to destroy his ability to wage war.
18) And then? We're going to give Putin the finger, hit Russia with SWIFT sanctions, and tell them that if they want to play on the world stage, play nice, or we kill your economy. New rules, motherfuckers. /end
