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Samantha Bee Continues Lobbing Truth Bombs: We Told You So: Russian Hacking

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Blind Frog Belly White4/07/2017 10:30:38 am PDT

Here’s my take:

Assad never gave up all his chemical weapons or the ability to make more.

Tillerson’s message of last week told Assad he had free rein.

Assad decided to see how much free rein he actually had.

Trump made a big stink about the attack, and his people made a bigger one (including Tillerson essentially saying ‘regime change’)

Trump brushed Assad back, but that’s it (confirmed by Tillerson stating that this doesn’t mean a policy change). Russia stepped aside and let it happen, but now they have to make a show of disapproval.

I don’t think Assad will double down, because I don’t think Russia will let him. What he MIGHT do is shoot a ‘rogue general’ for doing this heinous thing.

Net result: Trump gets to look manly and not at all puppetlike. Putin gets a bump in oil prices. Assad gets hit on the nose with rolled up newspaper. The Syrian people still get screwed.