The string of events currently happening, with the hard propaganda being spread around, reminds me a bit of 2003, except this time people seem to think they're too smart and well-informed to be the victim of state disinformation.
I guess we're supposed to believe that
every single missile sent by US/UK/France hit their target, as they claim, even when we have
photo evidence that Storm Shadow missiles were downed, multiple videos of AA getting successful hits, or that
70 Tomahawk missiles hit this research center when the damage looks closer to what 7-10 of them might do. A research center which was repeatedly inspected by the OPCW (with their last visit to date being last November), with no kind of chemical weapon found every time.
Funny how
sites where every missile was intercepted were excluded from any pro-coalition report, resulting in only 3 bombing sites being reported, or how
journalists can apparently "smell" traces of CWs off the backpacks of schoolchildren somewhere in Northern Syria, 700km away from Douma where it supposedly happened... or how
the French analysis on the attack, which they hyped up for days before the strikes as "irrefutable proof that the regime did it", basically amounts to "we saw videos on social media like facebook and twitter proving the attack happened, assumed that the rebels couldn't false flag anything since they don't have enough money, and since Assad is their enemy he must be responsible".
The UK and US representatives at the UN security council couldn't even keep the same narrative yesterday, with Nikki Haley talking about sarin while Karen Pierce spoke about chlorine (somehow delivered through barrel bombs as well, since chemical weapons obviously don't need specialized pressurized canisters or anything like that).
Yet we're supposed to believe them about anything else?
You might say that there's no regime change attempt or potential boots on the ground happening here, but the only reason there isn't is because western countries already attempted it from 2011-2015 (open support to jihadist rebels accounting for billions and billions of dollars), and when that failed, they switched strategy and are currently going for a balkanization of the country and intentional crippling of Syria's sovereignty.
But I suppose I'm just part of the
2000% increase in russian trolls over the last 24 hours, as if that's somehow quantifiable... hearing the word troll coming from a pentagon spokesman will never be not funny, though.
