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Donald Trump responded to reports of a chemical weapon attack in Syria this past weekend with a series of military threats, levied on Twitter against both embattled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and one of the country’s primary allies, Russia.
On Saturday, reports began trickling in of a possible chemical weapon deployed by the Assad regime against rebels in the central Syrian enclave of Duomo. As U.S. officials continue to assess the situation on the ground, President Trump took to his favorite social media site, unleashing a string of insults and military threats against Assad and Syrian supporters in Russia.
In the midst of a continued investigation into the possibility that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election on Trump’s behalf, Vladimir Putin’s support of the Syrian regime has created a new rift between the controversial heads of state. In another tweet Wednesday morning, Trump claimed that America’s relationship with Russia is “worse than it has ever been. “
Our relationship with Russia is worse now than it has ever been, and that includes the Cold War. Russia needs us to help with their economy, something that would be very easy to do, and we need all nations to work together. 0b05804ef620″ target=” blank”>told the Washington Post.
Despite the president’s rhetoric, it’s still not exactly clear what Trump’s next move will be, but after reports of a retaliatory strike from U.S. ally Israel on Syria surfaced this week, the prospect of American military involvement began to grow with each presidential tweet.
“Trump has to understand that we’re going to be talking about the possibility of nuclear escalation if we have a collision of the U.S. and Russian militaries,” Igor Korotchenko, a Russian military scholar and member of the Defense Ministry’s public-advisory council, told the Washington Post. “Everything can happen very quickly, and the situation can spin out of the control of the politicians. “
Keep your eyes peeled to MERRY JANE’s Need to Know column for continued updates on this evolving situation.
