Trump strikes Syria. red line . crossed

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It’s the END. WWIII has arrived. Although, I saw it coming back in 2014…
 
This is the Casual section 🙂 Where nothing is taken too seriously .
 
It’s been several hours and the world doesn’t seem to have ended yet.

Prayers for the Syrian folks who are affected by all this.
 
The Syrian government’s very muted reaction suggests two things: first, that the Syrians saw it coming and that, thanks to Russian intelligence, they had time to evacuate their personnel from the chemical weapons facilities being targeted, and second, that the U.S., French and British air forces hit their targets accurately. If they’d killed a lot of innocent civilians by mistake, there would have been an outcry.
 
Good thing it’s raining cats n dogs here tonight, lots of water to hoarde
 
It was only a matter of time before he ordered a strike on someone.
 
Haaretz provides some information about how many missiles, of what kind, were launched and from where.

How the U.S.-led Airstrikes in Syria Hit Their Targets Before Assad’s Missile Defenses Even Fired

Russia claimed early Saturday morning that Syrian air defenses had shot down 71 of the over 100 missiles fired by the coalition - a claim the Pentagon refuted. “No Syrian weapon had any effect on anything we did,” Lieutenant General Kenneth McKenzie said. …

According to the Pentagon, 19 new Lockheed Martin “Extended-Range” stealthy Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Attack Munitions (JASSAM) were launched by two B-1B bombers based out of Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. …

Six Tomahawk cruise missiles were also launched from the Virginia-class USS John Warner submarine according to the Pentagon. The U.S. guided-missile destroyer USS Winston Churchill and another U.S. destroyer, the USS Donald Cook were deployed to the Mediterranean Sea as an apparent decoy to draw Russian and Syrian attention away from the three U.S. battleships which fired the other 60 Tomahawk missiles from the Red Sea and North Arabian Gulf.

The cruiser USS Monterey fired 30 Tomahawks and the destroyer USS Laboon fired seven from the Red Sea, while the USS Higgins fired 23 Tomahawks from the North Arabian Gulf, according to McKenzie. …

The air attack, denounced by Damascus and its allies as an illegal act of aggression, was unlikely to alter the course of a multi-sided war that has killed at least half a million people.

 
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