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On 1/8/20 12:31 PM, John Reimann via Marxism wrote:
An open war between the US and Iran now seems less likely. The Iranian
government seems to have taken care not to kill any US troops, which they
must have known would be a "red line" for the murderer Trump. In fact, it
seems they indirectly warned the US command in advance. For his part, Trump
is happily tweeting "all is well".
They learned from Trump apparently:
Consider what happened after Khan Shaykhoun was subjected to a sarin gas
attack just about a year earlier. Donald Trump ordered the navy to fire
Cruise missiles at Shayrat air force base in Syria but only after
alerting the Russians about the impending attack. The runway was not
damaged—something that was never even part of the plans—and jets and
helicopters took off a few hours afterward. According to Wikipedia, even
the Russian defense ministry said that the “combat effectiveness” of the
attack was “extremely low” and that only 23 missiles out of 59 fired hit
the base, destroying six aircraft. It did not know where the other 36
landed. Russian television news, citing a Syrian source at the airfield,
said that nine planes were destroyed by the strike but that they were
inoperative at the time.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/06/21/the-douma-gas-attack-whats-the-evidence-it-was-a-false-flag/
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