(THREAD) Trump's military strike on Syria was just an empty gesture

[L. Coyote]

The evidence that Trump's completely ineffectual military strike on Syria was just an empty political gesture is now overwhelming.

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[RedWedge]

1. He's admitted as such.

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[Sunlei]

2. IMO, about 30? missiles went somewhere else! The USA was never to assist Assad/Putin air attacks

So damn pissed off Republicans didn't stop this trump kisses Putins ass crap.

Republicans allowed Assad to KILL OFF hundreds of thousands of Syrians! OR PUSH OUT AS 8 million REFUGEES HALF THE POPULATION.

Republicans trump playing games cost America 80 million dollars!!

[louis-t]

3. But the Trumporrhoids think it was a YUGE success.

They're claiming the raid destroyed hundreds of planes!1!1!11

[moondust]

4. Politics.

As usual.

One wild and crazy possibility is that Republicans panicked about his tanking poll numbers and Russiagate maybe taking them down with him and told him (or threatened him) to create a giant headline changer with bombs to try to turn things around.

But then...I remember suspecting the Republicans' Iraq WMD scare mongering was probably a giant headline changer at the time of Coleen Rowley's testimony to Congress, and that once they had put something that significant out there they couldn't take it back and had to act on it.

[L. Coyote]

5. A trailor made distraction which appears to distance trump from Putin.

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[L. Coyote]

6. Publicity Stunts Arent Policy & @RealDonaldTrump is still failing bigly.

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