Trump's Syria Strike Looks Staged

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Matt Pearce? @mattdpearce
ABC News: Eyewitness says Syrian officials evacuated personnel and moved equipment ahead of the strike.

from ABC:

Syrian military officials appeared to anticipate Thursday's night raid on Syria's Shayrat airbase, evacuating personnel and moving equipment ahead of the strike, according to an eyewitness to the strike.

Dozens of Tomahawk missiles struck the airbase near Homs damaging runways, towers and traffic control buildings, a local resident and human rights activist living near the airbase told ABC News via an interpreter.

...we alerted Russia about the strike and they informed Syria?

What did we actually destroy with *59 Tomahawk missiles at $1.5 million apiece?

Link to tweet

[HoneyBadger]

1. If the strike was staged, did we use genuine Tomahawks?

Or inert practice missiles. Apparently not even the runways were damaged, sounds to me like the missiles just bounced off. The idea that a practice missile crashed during a test implies that they can be safely landed. We might even be getting them back to reuse.


https://www.navytimes.com/story/military/2016/04/20/navy-tomahawk-missile-crash-flight-test/83274196/

[HoneyBadger]

2. It probably is top secret

But why would one be driving a Tomahawk through NYC if not to return it??

Is That a Tomahawk Missile on Your Flatbed or Are You ... - Gothamist

We don't know where to begin, so let's just put it out there: WCBS 880 reports that, yes, a flatbed truck carrying a Tomahawk missile did break down and get rear-ended by another vehicle - causing the missile to fall on I-95 near the Bronx. The NYPD confirmed that there was an "inert ordinance," and the FDNY confirmed it was a Tomahawk missile. WCBS 880 adds this: "It is important to emphasize that the missile was not armed." But that takes the fun out of the hysteria!
The missile was on its way to Virginia. We guess missiles need to be transported somehow....

[HoneyBadger]

22. The Tomahawks appeared to be more like drones

Reports are that they all flew there at different times and circled until all were there, then struck in unison. The closest way I have of picturing it is Gaga's Superbowl show with the drones creating effects.

[Amimnoch]

3. Worthy of an academy nomination.

Trump should get an Oscar for this, the acting was well done, although the plot was both transparent and predictable.


The sequel, "21st century Riechstag Fire" is going to be the big one. I wonder when the release date for that one will be?

[OnDoutside]

4. Is this connected with Bannon being fired from the NSC ?

[VOX]

5. How many "up" percentage points will 59 missiles buy?

A few, maybe. My guess is most of the public will give this "mission" a thumbs-up.

[malaise]

6. Well what are folks talking about this morning

Not the criminals in the WH - fuck the Con. It was also illegal.

[Delphinus]

10. Yes to both.

[dalton99a]

12. Indeed.

[dixiegrrrrl]

24. but profitable, so there is that. Guess who owns stock?

No record found yet of him selling his Raytheon stock.
Raytheon makes the million plus missiles.

[malaise]

25. They are in it for the money

Bangs head - this is criminality on steroids.

[TrollBuster9090]

7. What did we destroy with $89 million worth of missiles? A $10,000 runway...

and all headlines about the Trump-Russia connection, the Nunes scandal, and McConnell stealing a SCOTUS seat for about two weeks.

Trump's poll numbers will go up, now that he's a 'man of action,' like Bush Jr., and Syria will fix the runway with five bags of ready-mix concrete before Monday.

(I'm not saying the gas attack wasn't real or horrific. But they're very selective about what they choose as a casus belli. Syria has made a half a dozen gas attacks since Trump took office. It's just that they used chlorine gas, and there were no pictures on the news. It wouldn't surprise me if Putin talked Assad into doing this, then suggested that Trump make a show of retaliating, so that Russia could make a show of backing down from defending Assad, and thus dispel rumors that Trump and Putin are too cozy.)

[Hortensis]

8. Very possibly. But this will not affect the investigations

in the slightest. In fact, if you're at all correct, this could turn out to be a really stupid mistake, like Rump's drawing the investigation into the WH by claiming Obama tapped him.

It also won't help Rump with his trumpsters as the fat and bone his administration cuts into turns out to be theirs.

[Delphinus]

11. I hope

you are correct.

[uponit7771]

15. Not even that, the runway wasn't cratered... this is what Brian Williams started talking about last

... night.

[Hortensis]

16. Russia is saying 6 aircraft destroyed, runway intact.

If true, very interesting...

The right is deploying all kinds of justifications, including Rump as instrument of god's vengeance against evil AND Hillary debate statement that we should take out all Assad's runways so he can't bomb civilians.

Then there's this point:

Link to tweet

This attack wouldn't substantially impede Russia's actions even if the runway were damaged.

[Hortensis]

21. RT correspondent says runway "practically not impacted."

Note the rest also. (This is Times of Israel quoting RT.)

“According to preliminary information, nine Syrian airplanes were destroyed,” its correspondent said in a report from the base, broadcast hours after the strike at 0040 GMT Friday.

Stores with ammunition and fuel were also targeted, he said, adding that a fire and some explosions were ongoing.

“But not all equipment has been destroyed, there is some that was not impacted by the strike,” the correspondent said. “The landing strip… is practically not impacted,” he added. Footage showed the runway intact but covered in debris, as well as two planes sitting in concrete hangars.

The aircraft were apparently not heavily damaged while some other hangars were charred and surrounded by rubble.

[Snarkoleptic]

9. Staged to counter the russian puppet investigation.

Oil prices will go up.
Russia sanctions will go down.
60MM acres of Exxon oil leases in Russia will be drilled.
We'll be a Russian satellite state and the planet will met.

[yardwork]

13. I agree.

[dalton99a]

14. Trump's genius move will be taught in military academies for its tactical brilliance

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courtesy of the man who knows more than the generals

[workinclasszero]

17. It's a false flag op

Assad and Putin were in on it with ample warning from Dump 45.

[HoneyBadger]

19. False flag, Assad is a puppet

[workinclasszero]

20. Dump 45 is a puppet as well

Putin is the puppet master.

Trump is making Russia great again, MRGA!!!

[Cha]

18. Russia is more important to trump than the US for some reason

[NastyRiffraff]

23. Or our allies

or Congress
or the American people.

Russia was informed; Allies, Congress, or the American people were not.

[Cha]

26. Right, Riff.. or our Allies.. especially!