Is This The End Of The Trump Presidency?
  On April 4 2017 in the Syrian city of Khan  Shaykhun, a city controlled by western-backed
  terrorists, chemical weapons killed more than  eighty civilians. Immediately, local and foreign
  sources (the White Helmets and Syrian Observatory,  respectively, dubiously linked to Al Qaeda
  groups) blamed the Syrian Arab Army, accusing  them of employing chemical agents. In the
  following forty-eight hours, the mainstream  media flooded print media and the airwaves
  with information that alleged that Assad used  chemical weapons. As is known, it is not the
  first time that the legitimate government  of Syria has been accused of attacking its
  own people with weapons of mass destruction.
  In all similar events in the past, it has  been later discovered that the chemical agents
  in question were used by the Al Nusra Front  and Al Qaeda terrorists. In 2013, Obama tacitly
  rejected the argument that the Syrian Army  used chemical weapons in Ghouta, deciding
  not to succumb to internal pressure to bomb  Syria in response. Donald Trump required little
  confirmation before taking the initiative  to cross the red line, openly attacking the
  Syrian army, even though his same intelligence  community strongly doubted that the chemical
  attack took place according to the narrative  advanced by the media.
  There are several hypotheses regarding what  may have happened in Khan Shaykhun. The first
  one points to a false flag by rebels and terrorists  supported by Israeli, British, Saudi and Qatari
  intelligence. Alternatively, it could have  simply been an accident. Assad's forces could
  have hit a terrorist weapons cache without  knowing that it was dedicated to the production
  and storage of chemical weapons. Another theory  offers that foreign intelligence agents may
  have provided accurate information to the  terrorists in Khan Shaykhun about what buildings
  were going to be targeted by Assad�s air  force, thereby allowing them to move chemical
  weapons into the targeted locations in order  to bring about a civilian massacre.
  Whatever the case may be, it is unthinkable  that Assad and the Syrian army would use chemical
  agents against their own civilians. There  is no rational reason for them to use such
  weapons which do not guarantee any tactical  advantage and which, besides, would incite
  an obvious, vehement reaction from the international  community -- a counterproductive move from
  any way you look at it. This is not to mention  that two days before the accident (?), Trump
  and Tillerson had publicly opened up to Assad,  broaching a Syrian future with the president
  still in office. Once again, the use of chemical  weapons proved to be of no tactical gain,
  spelling full-blown political suicide. From  whatever perspective one observes the incident;
  an intentional chemical attack by Syrian forces  is not credible and should be therefore ruled
  out. Furthermore, Russia saw its request for  an independent investigation in the Khan Shaykhun
  chemical incident blocked by almost all nations  belonging to the UN council, with the exception
  of Syria, Bolivia, China and Russia. What  do the US and its allies have to hide? We
  all know the answer to that.
  An important factor to consider in order to  understand the events surrounding the incident
  with chemical gases concerns the immediate  American response. The bombardment with cruise
  missile, which caused a dozen deaths and some  slight damage to Shayrat Air Base, needed
  at least a couple of months of preparation.  This consideration helps clarify the scope
  of the chemical attack along with the attendant  rationale and motivations.
  Notably, over the past two months, Trump has  received all kinds of pressure to continue
  the neocon-inspired aggression against Syria.  The main cheerleaders of this attack certainly
  fall into that category of players that includes  the intelligence community, the military-industrial
  complex, neoconservatives, the Saudis, the  Israelis, the Turks and the Qataris. It is
  not unthinkable that the chemical attack was  an act needed in order to allow a US military
  response. One must not neglect to consider  the very positive outcome of the meeting between
  Trump and the Saudi prince, the latter of  whom is a major supporter of aggression against
  Syria. The summit between the King of Jordan  and the American president the day after the
  events in Khan Shaykhun ought to be viewed  in the same light. At the same time, other
  events look more than suspicious in terms  of timing and motives, such as the permanent
  exclusion of Trump adviser Steve Bannon in  favor of General H. R. McMaster (appointed
  by Trump). McMaster is a prot�g� of General  Petraeus, a leading exponent of the interests
  of the neoconservatives. This is not to mention  the exclusion of Flynn a month ago, another
  person who for years has advised against aggression  against Syria, mainly thinking of the consequences
  that such a move would entail at the international  level.
  Much ambiguity also remains when one considers  the absence of members of the American intelligence
  community in the war room during the bombing  of Syria on April 6. Rumors suggest that these
  American agencies would have recommended that  Trump not act on the basis of partial or false
  information regarding the chemical attack  in Khan Shaykhun. Trump, contrary to what
  he stated during the presidential campaign,  has dismissed the advice of his intelligence
  community, preferring instead to act unilaterally  under pressure from McMaster and other neocons
  in the administration.
  The bombardment, involving the use of 59 cruise  missiles (23 hit the base, others went missing,
  according to the Russian ministry of defense),  caused little damage to the Shayrat Air Base,
  thanks to the prompt evacuation of Syrian  personnel, and no injuries were reported amongst
  the Russian contingent. The Pentagon claims  to have warned the Russians of their intentions,
  but it is more likely that there were no alternatives,  and that this act was mostly political and
  at no cost. Rather than reading this as a  hypothetical US courtesy to the Russians (and
  the Syrians, because Moscow immediately warned  Damascus), we must consider that a few seconds
  after the launch of the first cruise missile  by the two destroyers in the Mediterranean,
  Russian forces in the area were already fully  aware of the path and destination of the missiles,
  thereby alerting Damascus. It is also possible  that the generals close to Trump advised him
  to alert Moscow because of the danger of a  Russian reaction if hit by US missiles.
  Some doubts still remain as to the intentions  and purpose of the attacks. In recent days,
  a hypothesis has emerged implying some sort  of connivance between Russia and the United
  States in these attacks, apparently staged  to appease the interventionists of the US
  deep state. There is no evidence to support  this hypothesis, and the relatively limited
  damage to the Shayrat military airport may  rest either with the high defense capabilities
  of the Syrian and Russians, or to the marked  inefficiency of Raytheon�s cruise missiles,
  rather than any purposeful intention to do  limited damage. In coming days, with more
  information available, it will be important  to analyze what exactly happened to the cruise
  missiles that did not hit their target. As  many know, it is taboo in the United States
  to criticize the military-industry complex,  given the importance and influence it enjoys.
  In this sense, it is no surprise that in the  United States, the press has been talking
  about the complete success of the attack,  with 58 out of 59 missiles apparently being
  advertised as hitting their targets.
  For Trump it may well be the beginning of  the end. The intention may have been to make
  a once-off attack to appease the deep state,  lowering in the process the heat stemming
  from Russiagate, in order to allow for the  implementation of national policies in line
  with the proclaimed America-First doctrine  that has thus far been sabotaged by opponents
  and detractors. These same detractors now  applaud Trump for what they see as his first
  presidential act, which involves killing civilians  with missiles.
  What Trump does not appear to understand is  that he has opened up a Pandora's Box that
  implicitly encourages foreign intelligence  and terrorists in Syria to rely on American
  help by simply playing the chemical-gas-attack  card. Trump seems unaware that he is now under
  the complete control of the media, the intelligence  agencies, Al Qaeda, and the neocons, who are
  all the time working towards the involvement  of the United States in ever more wars, such
  as with the one in Syria. Trump has intentionally  sold out to the deep state in the hope of
  saving his presidency. However, in so doing,  he is doomed to becoming a puppet of the deep
  state. Now let us speculate for a moment about  what may happen in the coming weeks.
  In response to US aggression, Russia, Syria  and Iran will increase cooperation against
  terrorists in Syria without any further cooperation  with the United States. In this regard, we
  have already seen the suspension of channels  of communication between Russia and the United
  States. The most likely reason for this is  to avoid revealing to the United States the
  whereabouts of Russian troops in Syria. This  hopefully causes huge concern for Washington,
  as the next American attack on Syria may impact  on Russian troops. Regardless, it now seems
  clear that in the case of a new attack on  Syria, there will be a firm and proportionate
  response from Moscow that could even lead  to the sinking of the ships that launched
  the cruise missiles. It constitutes a dangerous  escalation that could involve nuclear superpowers.
  Trump is probably betting that Moscow, in  the case of another attack on Syria, would
  not dare attack American ships. Unfortunately  for Trump and the rest of the world, his calculations
  are dead wrong, pushing the world to the brink  of disaster in the event of another American
  bombardment of Syria. If Russia sinks American  naval ships, and Trump does not respond, he
  is done. If he responds, then the world is  done. Let us hope that the US does not do
  stupid shit (an Obama quote).
  In case al Qaeda once again uses chemical  weapons, Trump will be requested to answer
  with force, as he has already done. If he  refuses to do so, he will be immediately pilloried
  as Obama was in 2013, thereby committing political  suicide. Trump has already lost his most loyal
  supporters, who had voted for him to stop  US military adventures abroad. By deciding
  to bomb Syria, he has opened the door to either  an early termination of his presidency or
  for a large-scale conflict. Whatever the case  may be, the United States begins a new phase
  of conflict in the Middle East, in direct  contrast to the claims made by Trump throughout
  the presidential campaign. It represents a  180-degree reversal in policy that reveals
  the real intentions of the American presidency,  namely continuing the preservation of the
  American unipolar world, in spite of lacking  the necessary operational and military capabilities.
  After all, Obama resisted for six years the  pressure to bomb Syria coming from the extremist
  wing of the deep state. Trump took only eighty  days to voluntarily go along with plans to
  attack Syria. Whatever the hidden truth of  these two events, it is clear that from now
  on that nothing will be as before.
     
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