{"id":33220,"date":"2018-04-08T08:58:52","date_gmt":"2018-04-08T13:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33220"},"modified":"2018-04-08T08:58:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T13:58:52","slug":"trump-threatens-putin-animal-assad-over-syrian-chemical-attack-russia-warns-of-grave-response-if-us-launches-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33220","title":{"rendered":"Trump Threatens Putin, &#8220;Animal Assad&#8221; Over Syrian &#8220;Chemical Attack&#8221;; Russia Warns Of &#8220;Grave&#8221; Response If US Launches Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-zerohedge-page-title\" class=\"block block-core block-page-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-04-08\/trump-threatens-assad-putin-over-syrian-chemical-attack-russia-warns-gravest\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Trump Threatens Putin, &#8220;Animal Assad&#8221; Over Syrian &#8220;Chemical Attack&#8221;; Russia Warns Of &#8220;Grave&#8221; Response If US Launches Strike<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\">\n<footer class=\"node__meta\">\n<div class=\"submission-wrapper\">\n<article class=\"profile\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-user-picture field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item\">It&#8217;s deja vu all over again.<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Remember when the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-10-22\/us-now-admits-syrian-rebels-have-used-chemical-weapons\">US admitted Syrian &#8220;Rebels&#8221; have used chemical weapons<\/a>? <\/strong>Or when earlier this year, now former Secretary of State blamed Russia for an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-01-23\/tillerson-blames-russia-alleged-syria-chemical-attack-after-admitting-he-doesnt\">alleged Syrian chemical attack <strong>despite admitting <\/strong><\/a><strong>he doesn&#8217;t know who actually did it? <\/strong>Or when the US finally admitted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-02-11\/us-finally-admits-no-evidence-assad-used-sarin-gas\">there was &#8220;no evidence&#8221; Assad used sarin gas<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Well, maybe <strong>you <\/strong>do, but the <strong>neocons <\/strong>back in charge of US <s>war preparations<\/s> foreign policy &#8211; now that war hawk John Bolton is Trump&#8217;s National Security Advisor &#8211; are so stuck with the age-old narrative that Assad is desperate to be bombed at any cost, that none of this actually matters, and instead the big story overnight is <em>once again <\/em>that, lo and behold, Assad decided to gas some &#8220;rebels&#8221; again, despite now overwhelmingly winning the war against US-backed insurgents, and despite knowing very well that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-04-06\/us-launches-air-strike-syria-over-50-tomahawk-missiles-hit-syria\">exactly one year ago <\/a>an alleged &#8220;chemical attack&#8221; prompted Trump to launch dozens of Tomahawks at Syria.<\/p>\n<p>This is what happened (if you&#8217;ve seen this script played out before, you are not alone).<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday night, an alleged chemical attack on a rebel-held town in eastern Ghouta reportedly killed dozens of people, according to US-linked medical services with Washington immediately responding that the reports &#8211; if confirmed &#8211; would demand an immediate international response. Actually scratch the &#8220;if confirmed&#8221; part &#8211; after all, the last time the US &#8220;intervened&#8221; in Syria, on April 7, 2017, the US did not need confirmation; Trump just needed a geopolitical distraction.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that he needs another one again, and ideally one that shows just how angry he is with Putin now that an interview with Mueller is reportedly imminent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Threatens Putin, &#8220;Animal Assad&#8221; Over Syrian &#8220;Chemical Attack&#8221;; Russia Warns Of &#8220;Grave&#8221; Response If US Launches Strike It&#8217;s deja vu all over again. Remember when the US admitted Syrian &#8220;Rebels&#8221; have used chemical weapons? Or when earlier this year, now former Secretary of State blamed Russia for an alleged Syrian chemical attack despite admitting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[19723,10180,7844,4487,694,9101,776,827,857,4318],"class_list":["post-33220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-basher-al-assad","tag-chemical-attack","tag-donald-trump","tag-john-bolton","tag-russia","tag-sarin-gas","tag-syria","tag-united-states","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33221,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33220\/revisions\/33221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}