Biden has promised a strong reaction of some sort if Russia employs chemical weapons. That worries me.
Of course such "red lines" in the past have been ignored.
it's unclear why Russia would even employ chemical weapons. Seems
very strange to me US keeps bringing it up.
And yes, all we have to do is recall Syria. Obama made a "red line" about chemical weapons that were not followed through on.
And by the way, several whistleblowers from the OPCW and leaked emails from WikiLeaks and a bunch of great reporting by independent investigative journalists on the ground in Syria-
seriously call into question the official narrative of Assad using chemical weapons. There is no conclusive evidence that Assad in fact did use chemical weapons, and there was even evidence suggesting that "rebels" (in reality, f**king terrorists) in Syria are the ones who may have staged a chemical attack to blame it on Assad to get US to invade and overthrow him. Which logically, just makes a ton of sense. If you're Assad and you're
already winning- but then the US issues a "red line" and says the
only way they're going to invade and overthrow you is if you use chemical weapons - well then you have zero incentive to actually use chemical weapons. If you're a Syrian "rebel" (
TERRORIST) then well, staging a chemical attack to drag the Americans in to overthrow Assad is something you'd absolutely want to do.