What is going on with Trump and Syria tonight?

[Person Man]

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Posturing.

Given that Assad is more than willing to use chemical weapons, as we know by now, saying that we'll hold Iran and Russia to account for Assad's use of them is wildly irresponsible, as it'll lead to one of two things:

1. When Assad does use chemical weapons again (he's Bashar al-Assad, of course he will), Trump will be boxed into declaring war on Syria and taking various punitive steps towards Iran and Russia which could lead to broader war.
2. When Assad uses chemical weapons again, Trump can do another flashy nonresponse and shoot some missiles into the desert and the whole world will know that American threats have no strength behind them.

This is the same f**king trap Assad caught Barack Obama in and it's why you don't give ultimatums.

He is boxed into 3 things at this point, he invades Syria and Iran, he gets cucked and continues to cede Republican ground on Security, or he just keeps sounding like the Kims.

[Person Man]

Pasting from my thread on this, deleted it since this thread is talking about the same thing.

(Previous comment) Yes, if it's true and if he will actually do it. Strategically, would he just be able neutralize that threat?

(My take on it) It depends on what the threat is. If this is soldiers/SOF delivering it and running away, hard to pinpoint unless we have them in LOS via a drone, etc., if it is fighters dropping CBW bombs like last time (more likely), he could order the airbases and any jets in the air (potentially) to be taken out via Tomahawk strikes and our fighters in the area. It depends on how he wants to play this. If you play your CONOPS heavily, it opens the door to Russian retaliation on US and allied forces in the region in which we might have to respond to them in kind. (Russia really put the screws to planning once they jumped right over Obama's red line).

Doesn't it seem likely that the size of the engagement would be broad because we could never be sure he isn't about to gas people again or that if left in place, he wouldn't just gas as a form of culling the next challenge?

Obama was behind the 8 ball with both paleoconservatives and the left wing uniting against his authorization. Trump would probably have to do either  this on his own or with the cuckholding of Rand Paul.