A third world war may be coming and it’s starting from Syria
Yonden Lhatoo warns the threat of a wider global conflict has become alarmingly real, now that US President Donald Trump and his allies are taking unilateral action against Syria and risking retaliation by Russia
I never thought the day would come when I would have to quote a Fox News host as the voice of reason in a world that is diving down the rabbit hole, but here I am. Never say never.
Why? Because Tucker Carlson’s rant this week against bombing Syria and potentially starting a third world war made total sense. For once, I was actually wishing US President Donald Trump would follow the advice being offered to him by that television channel he watches so religiously, much to the exasperation of his critics who despise it.
Carlson noted how both Democrats and Republicans were in a bipartisan tizzy, with the mainstream media in tow, pushing for military intervention by the United States over the latest suspected chemical weapon attack in Syria.
More than 40 people, many of them children, were said to have been killed on April 4 in the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Douma, which Western powers have automatically blamed – with no proof whatsoever – on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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“How would it benefit Assad using chlorine gas last weekend? Well it wouldn’t,” Carlson argued.
“Assad’s forces had been winning the war in Syria. The administration just announced its plans to pull American troops out of Syria, having vanquished ISIS [Islamic State]. That’s good news for Assad. About the only thing he could do to reverse it and to hurt himself would be to use poison gas against children.”
Trump bombed Syria a year ago after dozens were killed in another chemical attack that was blamed on Assad, with the US and its allies refusing to entertain the possibility that ruthless rebels trying to incriminate government forces might well have been responsible.