OPINION_ Russia and Syria are using pre-emptive fake news to prepare for a new chemical weapons attack

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Russia and Syria are using pre-emptive fake news to prepare for a new chemical weapons attack

by Tom Rogan | August 27, 2018 04:27 PM



If Assad uses chemical weapons again, the U.S. should respond with a magic trick that makes Damascus' Umayyad Square disappear. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)


Russia is an expert at fake news. But pre-emptive fake news? Well, that's a new one.

Russia, Iran, and Syria are now spreading a fake news claim that western powers are preparing a chemical weapons attack in Syria. According to these nations' propaganda outlets, the conspiracy has involved kidnapping dozens of children who will be used as victims at the attack site. They say the U.S. will then blame Assad for the attack and retaliate against him.

Excuse my French, but it is total crap.

What's actually going on here is that Assad and his Russian and Iranian axis cronies are pre-emptively shaping coverage of their own atrocity. Planning new chemical weapons attacks alongside an assault on rebel redoubts in Idlib province, the axis want to avoid any U.S. military response. Thus, by presenting Assad's looming atrocity as a complex western plot to undercut his regime, the axis hope to attract international calls against U.S. retaliation.

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