How Trump is being misled on Syria

Earlier today, chemical attacks were purportedly used on Syrian civilians by the forces of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. The more likely option is that the Syrian rebels are getting increasingly desperate due to a lack of victory on the ground and are thus doing all they can to frame the Syrian Government as heartless soldiers who use chemical weapons.

Unfortunately, like Obama and George W. Bush before him, Trump has fallen for the garbage 100%.

As a Trump fan, this is incredibly disappointing. I wanted to see Trump get over the line and become President because Hillary Clinton was set to install a no-fly-zone in Syria, overthrow the Syrian Government and let the entire Middle-East go up in flames. Provided of course she could get through Russia first, which she wouldn't have - it would have been world war 3 over a stupid gas pipeline made by Qatar.

Thankfully, Trump is unlikely to respond by installing a no-fly-zone in Syria. His desire for good ties with Russia, as well as his desire for an 'America first' agenda means that unilateral action in Syria is unlikely to happen. However, there are options:

1) pressure on Russia to remove Bashar Al-Assad. This would come in the form of refusal to remove economic sanctions on Russia. This would only mean that Bashar Al-Assad would be removed and replaced with another Ba'ath Government figure by Russia, with pressure from the Trump Administration. This decreases the likelihood of Syria being able to remain as one country.

2) Safe zones implemented without the approval of the Syrian Government. This is the most likely response by Trump and the rest of his Administration to what they see as a humanitarian catastrophe. Unfortunately for Trump, safe zones without the approval of the Syrian Government is unlikely to work out.

3) Syria will be balkanized. Rather than allow Bashar Al-Assad to regain control of the entirety of Syria, Trump would let the Syrian Kurds and their democratic allies of the SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces) hold onto all the territory they have taken off the Islamic State. This would mean that, while the majority of Syria would remain in Bashar Al-Assad's hands, part of Syria would be lost to the Syrian Government either permanently or until Russia replaced Assad with another Ba'ath leader of Syria.


But it is disgusting that Trump would turn his back on a campaign promise to let Russia, Assad and Iran fight ISIS. It is absolutely disgusting that there is not a sensible person in American foreign policy who can clearly see that Bashar Al-Assad is - by far - even having used chemical weapons - the lesser of evils between Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda allied rebels, ISIS and the Syrian Government.

That Trump would continue to deal with backward terrorist-kissing countries like Saudi Arabia and Qatar - who are well-known for their obvious connections to ISIS - while condemning Bashar Al-Assad for use of chemical weapons is beyond hypocrisy. It is beyond madness.

All it is is disgusting. Every American politician who has wanted to 'fix' Syria by sighting human rights deserves to be hanged.