Yeah but how is that racially-charged? lol
"Globalist" can have antisemitic undertones, depending on the source. But the article states "Republican In Name Only" is racially-charged.
Hmm...
Nothing about this is something that would warrant trump being thrown in jail, it is all well within his authority to do this. As for the "people are saying he is doing it to distract people...."... What are you talking about? Without a source that is more or less the sort of thing fox news would report....
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I am not sure there is much danger to the US here. If anything, this might actually work out for trump. I could be wrong but this could change the syria situation a fair bit. The chemical attacks shows they were getting a tad bold so a response like this to deter attacks makes sense. Adding to that, russia can do precisely squat about this unless they are willing to nuke someplace. Iran can get pissed at the US but... they were already angry. I guess the region as a whole could react to this but what that reaction would be is a tad unpredictable IMO. At least I don't have enough info to speculate.
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I don't expect things to escalate here tbh. Russia still backing Assad and I don't see Trump getting hostile to Russia over Syria. I heard the attacks were in the airbases which are suspected to have chemical weapons stored.
I don't think trump actually aims to take out assad. His position so far seems to have been more in the assad stays in power camp. I don't think that what we are seeing now is yet evidence to suggest trump suddenly changed his position on assad at least. Well, to be fair though what he just did is a serious flip from the position he had that he wasn't going to get more involved in these conflicts.
It depends how things unfold after the airstrike. If Russia does nothing and abandons Assad, then it would clear out any potential conflict against Russia while the focus on Assad can be clear. However, I'm expecting Russia would say something or even do something for that matter. Guess we'll have to wait and see...
At this point, he already decided to intercept into the Syrian War with the airstrikes, so it really wouldn't be surprising if he decides to go after Assad.
Which is why I said it's possible to prevent Syria from becoming another Libya if done correctly, by helping the Syrians and rebuild their nation (it has worked after World War 2 with the Marshall Plan, but the problem is that Trump's "America First" policy won't tolerate such a plan).
I read somewhere that Russian defence minister Lavrov compared the airstrikes with Iraq invasion. I don't see Russia abandoning Assad now after all the troubles they have gone through to keep him on power.
That's an odd comparison considering the Iraq bit was, well, an invasion and this was an airstrike. With that in mind I would argue he is simply trying to inflame opinions against trump. I hate defending trump because I disagree with the vast majority of his agenda and proposals but this is a case where that specific criticism doesn't apply yet. Besides, the comparison perhaps will never be relevant at all. Iraq was a relatively stable country with a brutal dictator. The war was actually started by the US and after years of fighting things became bad when the US left and the iraq government was not able to hold it's position well enough. Even if the US invaded Syria, just the fact that their civil war started independently of the US would makes this into an entirely different situation. It wouldn't be "another iraq". A comparison which would make a bit of sense would be Libya but even they were never actually invaded.
I think someone in the trumpsphere (gonna call it that) has convinced him that he needs to distance himself from alt right and russia.
Yeah, that makes perfect sense. You have bannon having reduced power along with his apparent confrontations with kuschner all at once while the US also specifically antagonizes russia. I am not sure he was straight up abandoned though, he was just removed from the security council or whatever. In any case his demotion being connected to trump's flip on syria and russia is plausible too.
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Taking out Bannon was clearly a error a big one.
THe biggest stupidity will always be trusting youtube videos like these.
I think Trump is completely overchallenged with finding consensus between the factions who try to control him.