They're backed into a corner with all their bullshit, Bones. FFS, bimbo still thinks the Marxists want to take over the world.

Like who?

Russia claims 70% of missiles in attack were shot down. By old, defunct air defense systems ...
The laboratories were empty, long evacuated after Israeli airstrikes, years ago ... nothing going on there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEOoEwIrg0g

Can anybody fact check ?

You're too stupid to engage with.

You mean you are too stupid to engage with me.
But I will not hold it against you ... such limitations come from God who, in His all wisdom, decided beforehand which will inherit this earth, and who will stay dumb.

, yes that's what I meant.

Syria and Russia ought to agree first on how many missiles they claim to have shot down. Syria reckon they shot down 13, Russia claim 71.

Meanwhile the Pentagon reckon that Syria fired at most 40 SAMs, most of them after the last Allied missile had found it's target

And a quick check of satellite photos shows that the 3 targets got fairly comprehensively bitchslapped.

Fixed.

Why ask the question then if you've already bought in heavily to one set of claims?

You have an amazing level of patience.

You, on the other hand, display an amazing lack of brains.

I said fact check - I did not say "play guess-guess"

Weren't you decrying ad hominems less than 24 hours ago?

He wouldn't bloody know

That was during a debate. This is not a debate.

I did not have you down the type of guy who would be consistent about anything.

Anyway - Vlad cant protect his client regime in the ME and was too scared to even turn on his vaunted missile defenses to protect Syria whilst his Russian trained and equipped allies ended up launching dozens of missiles pointlessly after the strike had finished.

That's the good bit about these strikes, we get some "testing" done. The cruise missle seems fairly resolute technology now doesn't it.

Plot twist: satellites are a conspiracy, man has never been to space and all you're looking at are photoshopped pictures taken by helicopters hovering above cardboard fake installations in Nevada.

Interesting article from Robert Fisk, a jouno who's actually on the ground in Syria; http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/syr ... 07726.html
No doubt in the pay of Assad or a shill for Putin though...
OAN report from Douma; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSXwG-901yU

The literal 'fog of war.'
That's the problem, and one we saw a helluva lot in Mosul. Many suspected attacks, or even people in the vicinity of actual chemical attacks weren't actually affected by the agent at all, probably 2/3rds of casualties I treated for suspected chemical exposure weren't actually affected by the stuff. It doesn't mean the attacks weren't real - they f**king were - it just indicates that terrified people (esp civilians) on the ground aren't the best people available to authenticate the type of weapon being used or diagnose their own symptoms. They see some funny cloud, they smell something funny, they aren't going to stick around, take a taste test, calmly check their pulse, or start measuring their own pupils. They're going to call it gas and not risk themselves for the sake of accuracy in war reporting.
They may be overcome with hypoxia sheltering from the chemicals... is that any more morally sound than being killed by the chemical itself? Only if you think someone eaten by Lions while hiding in their cage from an escaped Gorilla is any better off.

When possible, the OPCW and other organizations have been able to take samples from attacks and been able to confirm the use of chemical agents across Syria, that's not in doubt. Not every time some panicky bitch starts shrieking "SARIN!" is going to be an attack of course, but hell, we can't really start hating on people being bombarded with chemical weapons by their own government just because they don't get it right every damn time.
Chemical weapons are a psychological weapon just as much as they are a Weapon of Mass Destruction. In fact, they're often not effectively deployed, and are far more use keeping a population cowed and terrified, they don't need to kill everyone, they just have to show that they can get to them in their pathetic little bomb shelters they're huddling in.
Much easier to wipe out everyone there to get to the bad guys with these weapons than go house to house, especially when you don't care about civilian casualties.

Yep...pretty much:

https://twitter.com/_RichardHall/status ... 3425107970

Have a read of this: https://www.conflictarm.com/download-fi ... le_id=2574

It is a best attempt at identifying the sources of IS weaponry, and the US is right up there as a source.

It's abundantly clear that the US has had their finger in this war reasonably deeply, and against the Syrian government, for some time, and that they're happy to provide weapons to supposed enemies. I see no reason to trust their statements on Syria any more than those of the Russians - and in this case, logic, and a fair bit of evidence suggests that the Syrian government did not gas civilians. Meanwhile, the UK is selling cluster bombs to the Saudis to use on Yemen (and Yemeni civilians). The Russians are certainly on the wrong side of some things in this multi-theatre proxy war, but they're not the ones on the wrong side in the Middle East. We are.

Managed to finally get rid of that pesky stash of Egyptian cotton

The Iraqi army completely collapsed in Mosul and Northern Iraq, leaving behind tonnes of heavy weapons and small arms. It's not surprise the US is up there considering they were also the biggest supplier to the Iraqi army.

Chocolate Covered Cotton?

Without getting too deep into the latest five minutes of shenanigans going on I can't help but agree tbh.

Too put it simply, we're basically backing oil rich bedouins over a civilization older than ours.

Once again it boils down to the rank stupidity of the "Enemy of my enemy" approach to foreign relations.
It's all too easy for both sides to be arseholes, and for the civilians caught up in it to be the ones getting royally shafted, yet again.
Rinse.
Repeat.

What does?

So many of the attempts, missteps, and clusterfucks getting involved in the Middle East from other nations.

The Persians ?

Read the article. Some anti-tank weapons were sold by the Bulgarian manufacturer to the US, for their use exclusively, within 59 days of being found in the arms of ISIS soldiers. Their provenance is not all, or even mainly, via Mosul.

Yeah, I'm not reading 200 pages of it today. Will do another time. A brief skim sets out that 50% of the arms come from Russia and China. I've no doubt that the US vetting system was a complete crock, and has has been involved since the start.

Not sure what the "wrong side" is in the ME though really. You'd want to flesh that out. And as for "evidence and logic" part of your post, haven't been presented with a) and evidence and b) any logic apart from the discredited "he's winning the war why would he do this". Must just be a coincidence that Ghouta capitulated so soon after the alleged chemical attacks. For me the previous points to the Assad government, a long with the usual Russian obfuscation.

Yes.

Mainly TYT network but I watch and read stuff from all different viewpoints. Basically anyone who doesn't shill for corporations.

It's an obscene comparison if you take the current regimes. And is it really even older than post "Magna Carta" UK or federal France from the 10th century ?

In 2003 both the US and UK broke those protocols. Blair and Bush have never been prosecuted in the International court in the Hague. You can't pick and chose when to apply the GC.

On top of that. Drone strikes carried out by the Western Alliance or mostly US have bombed hospitals, civilians and even funeral functions where children were killed. They are the last ones to be enforcing any international protocols.

And that's not even taking into account the questionable evidence about Assads guilt.

Enough with the propaganda and leave those countries alone. You've done enough damage already.