It’s apropos that a retarded financial news outlet should get this scoop from deep within the White House. I thought Trump wasn’t going to telegraph his military strikes, like Boring Barry?
Here it is, fucked faces.
Defense Secretary James Mattis and Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, head to the White House on Thursday to discuss strike options in Syria with President Donald Trump.
A source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told CNBC the U.S. was considering striking eight potential targets. Those targets include two Syrian airfields, a research center and a chemical weapons facility.
The source also noted that Syria’s military has repositioned a significant amount of air assets to Russian-controlled airfields in hopes that Washington would be reluctant to strike there.
Trump acknowledged the meeting Thursday, telling reporters a decision on whether the U.S. military will respond to alleged Syrian chemical attacks will be made “fairly soon.”
“We’re looking very very seriously, very closely at that whole situation and we’ll see what happens folks,” Trump said.
Over the past five days, Trump has sharpened his rhetoric against Syria and its most powerful ally Russia and issued a threat via Twitter of a potential U.S. strike against the war-torn country.
The officials said they were “confident” in the intelligence, though not 100 percent sure.
And there it is folks. That’s all it takes to embroil Americans in a suffocating war — a few bad pictures from a war torn area and a really impressionable or corruptible President.
Bombs away — for the sake of freedom and justice. We will show them the way.
On this news, stocks are screaming higher — the Dow is +283, Nasdaq +62.
Is Rand Paul the only good man in the Senate? Here’s Paul schooling Pompeo on the constitutionality of the executive branch waging war.
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Disinformation, anyone?
Perhaps there are other things afoot, with our military and our allies, that benefit from this distraction or cause the enemy to take actions we want them to take.
Disinformation – real information, Jimmy Dore + Tucker Carlson – H/T Jesse:
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/odd-role-reversals-between-left-and.html
How many times does Trump’s communication, tweet or otherwise, have to lead to the results he wants before people start to realize it is calculated and designed, not random and knee-jerk ego driven maniacal rankings or puppet string pulling?
Put down the crack pile and get your shit together man. WTF??
3d intergalactic chess?
hopefully
yeah, why is Rand in the minority? There are a few others but as George Orwell said
“War Against a Foreign Country Only Happens When the Moneyed Classes Think They Are Going to Profit From It”
Spengler predicted this a long time ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decline_of_the_West
Hypothetically speaking, even *IF* there was a “chemical” attack on civilians in “i forget where”, how exactly bombing 2 airfields and research center which is a civilian target, fit into this response to Assad’s “chemical” attack on civilians by killing more civilians? Confused.
Remember “Freedom Fries?” Do bombs come with those fries?
I’d like to hear, “We have no immediate plans for bombing, but merely revealed that info to catch a WH leaker, who is currently en route to Gitmo for waterboarding…”
But I guess it’s too much to ask.
Think this is overblown for now. Not seeing much concern except on alt-right sympathetic media outlets. Gotta have something to trap the bears into the wall of worry.
VIX futures down big today. No worry. Someone is going to be temporarily trapped soon, that’s for sure (big reversal coming, or else earnings rally in bear faces).
Time to don the zerohedge beast cap
Mr. Fly! Watch Dr. Strangelove on a loop, until like Winston Smith at the end of 1984, you come to love America’s constant state of flashpoints and military quagmires.
My favorite comedy.
Once you realize that it’s ALL fake news you start to see the real news.
Syria may or may not even exist. Who the hell knows? Has anyone actually been there? And if you believe you have been there, how did you get there? Are you 100% confident that you were in a plane and not a very advanced simulator?
Or maybe Syria exists for all we know, but the potential for actual war in Syria does not exist.
Like I said yesterday… this is a huge distraction while an actual war rages domestically. Trump and Co are removing permanence from the Deep State.
No matter what happens, make them pay a price.
Remember how every MSM outlet and news reader (but for Tucker Carlson) dutifully called for slaughter based on an obvious false flag. Remember the silence from congress (Paul excepted) and vote them all out in the fall. And if Spanky launches, stay mad, demand impeachment.
Never forget.
Good cop and bad cop in one person is what Trump is trying to do. Like someone said here a day ago, he sees himself as negotiator/builder/developer. Shiny and new is good, and all the better things in life are what he wants. The approach must be similar to how to make a billion dollars in NYC, it’s refreshing in such a context as he finds himself (viewed from off-shore anyway).
>to discuss strike options
>A source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity
>U.S. was considering
>a decision on whether the U.S. military will respond
>we’ll see what happens folks
>of a potential U.S. strike
being this retarded.
Based upon how shitty my ‘build up to WWIII’ portfolio is doing today, might be that if they’ve decided to strike, they’ve cut a deal with Russia to give them the targets in advance. Who the fuck knows with these reckless cowardly armchair clowns.