Honestly, we often assume complete rationality and centralization about international players, but this is not the case. the Syrian government isn't completely rational, just like any other government, and there are major organizational constraints- ie, the government is basically made of organizations and agencies, all with their own routine plans and interests, so it doesn't surprise me that the Syrian army has seen fit to use, again, chemical weapons, regardless of what Trump said a week ago. They did it many times before, it became a part of their standard plans, so they just did it again when the need arose. There's nothing awfully surprising or illogical here.
But of course, King Lear will keep thinking that it's a Zionist-American conspiracy to take down his hero Assad, and nothing will change his robotic mind
