Consolidated Syria Conflict Thread

[bayonetbrant]

Bellingcat has done a pretty good job over the years of using the youtube footage of attacks in Syria to geo-locate the action and a combination of news reports and satellite imagery to establish dates/times of what's happened.  There's been at least a half-dozen times they've caught both the Russians and the Syrian gov't of outright lying about not hitting hospitals or other civilian targets. 

They're also pretty good about giving you the limits of what they can determine based on the footage/imagery.  They've noted that the symptoms are consistent with sarin, but that there's no way to determine for sure from the footage available, or from the photos of the impact craters/BDA after the fact.

[Staggerwing]

US Tomahawks are hitting Syrian gov't airfields:


https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-weighing-military-options-following-chemical-weapons-attack-in-syria/2017/04/06/0c59603a-1ae8-11e7-9887-1a5314b56a08_story.html?utm_term=.921b582c4396

[Gusington]

I don't know if this is a good thing or not.

[bayonetbrant]

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-launches-missiles-syrian-base-after-chemical-weapons-attack-n743636

just make sure you don't hit the Russians.

[Gusington]

What about the Iranians?

[bayonetbrant]

What about the Iranians?

fuck 'em; they deserve to be hit

[Gusington]

Turks?

[Con]

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-launches-missiles-syrian-base-after-chemical-weapons-attack-n743636

just make sure you don't hit the Russians.

Don't think the tomahawks can distinguish between Russian Military and Syrian military all using the same equipment and mixed together on the base. Certainly some Russians are going to get whacked so the question is how Putin is going to react. I think Trumps ability to flip flop so rapidly is going to keep,the Russians off guard but will this be the start of a slippery slope to a shooting war with Ivan.

[mirth]

There weren't any Russians at that airbase and we gave the Russkis a heads up before the strike.

[Staggerwing]

Good thing we had those Russian back channels set up so early.

[Con]

There weren't any Russians at that airbase and we gave the Russkis a heads up before the strike.

Lets hope you are right.  What I was reading earlier was that the Russians were pretty deeply embedded with Syrian forces

[Gusington]

The Russians earlier today publicly said to Trump directly, not in so many words: "So what are you going to do about it?"

Now we and the Russians have the answer.

[Staggerwing]

Tomorrow, and probably the day after, will provide the answer.

[Con]

If I was on those US Navy ships my sphincter would be puckered pretty tight right now since they are the juiciest target if the Russians decide to retaliate

Con

[bayonetbrant]