Attacks in Douma

aVdub

He almost got a word in this morning on the bbc snooze.....Well he said much, but the female reporter dismissed most of it and carried on with her typed out agenda.

Sonic67

Do some bombing, then when Russia gets upset, call it fake news and say they have to prove it.

IronGiant

Would it be too cynical to suggest that Russia knows there was no chemical attack, but vetoed the investigation because it likes the way this is playing out?

Enki

What’s the difference of choking on a chemical missile or being incinerated by our conventional missile? I know we are told that our bombs have real time smart intelligent blast radius and all that nonsense, as the wet pious right like to hear only baddies get it, but we will incinerate innocent people as well when we lob a few over.

EarthRod

Possibly. I reckon Russia would veto any Western investigation into 'their' territory whether there was a chemical attack or not.

aVdub

Fixed that.

Skull n Bones

More tinfoil needed

Salisbury comes to mind

apolloa

Not at all. I think it’s been quite plain to see Russia just lurves to wind up the West I end... constant planes and bombers and ships happily going past the U.K. very very close is one example.
Trouble is everyone knows this and more or less ignores them, the thing is how far do the more mad people in Putins government and army really want to push it?

I don’t know, they said their military police are in the area where the weapons were dropped now and Syrian government has taken full control of the area, so are they hiding something or would the Police really go into an area that’s just had chemical weapons dropped on it?
I think we need some more evidence, but Chemical weapons have been used multiple times in the country and that’s a fact.

Skull n Bones

Don't deny both sides play the same war games all the time, whether probing possible weaknesses and reaction times or a military show of strength.

Do we want to gamble and call Putin's bluff again on retalitory strikes if we strike first on little to no evidence, as seems likely.

Will we wake up to ships sinking in the Persian Gulf and what follows, all on the basis of a claim by the white helmets, of all people

Sonic67

Some weapons are allowed by international conventions, some aren't. Same with use of napalm, dum dum bullets, land mines, lasers designed to blind, use of microwaves...