March 17, 2018: Russia’s Defense Ministry says “US instructors” are training militants to stage false flag chemical attacks in south Syria. …”The provocations will be used as a pretext by the United States and its allies to launch strikes on military and government infrastructure in Syria,” the official stated. “We’re registering the signs of the preparations for the possible strikes. Strike groups of the cruise missile carriers have been formed in the east of the Mediterranean Sea, Persian Gulf and Red Sea.”… –US training Syria militants for false flag chemical attack as basis for airstrikes – Russian MoD

And, right on schedule, an attack is reported in the Syrian town of Douma. And covered by the media with photos and appropriately suggestive captions. Like this for example – – –

Saturday, April 7, 2018: Syria gas attack — Donald Trump slams ‘animal’ Assad as world fury mounts over Syrian regime ‘nerve gas’ attack that killed 70 …Harrowing pictures show medics desperately battling to keep gassed children alive after the dictator’s jets dropped a deadly cocktail of chlorine and Sarin gas on the rebel-held town of Douma. –Syria gas attack –US ‘drawing up missile strike plans’ as world condemns ‘nerve agent bomb attack’ that killed 70

Sunday, April 8, 2018: The international chemical weapons watchdog [OPCW] opened an investigation on Monday into the attack. Chemicals have been used in other attacks suspected to have been carried out by the Syrian government. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) chief, Ahmet Uzumcu, said it was responding with “grave concern” to the suspected chemical weapons attack on Saturday in the town of Douma, in the Ghouta region…. –Donald Trump says ‘nothing is off the table’ for US response to alleged Syria chemical attack | The Independent

So, the day after the reports of an attack, an official investigation has already been opened by the ranking body.

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And it’s about those “other attacks suspected to have been carried out by the Syrian government“: U.S. Defense Sec. Mattis said “No evidence” of previous chemical attacks. Like this:

CONTEXT Friday Feb. 2, 2018: Lost in the hyper-politicized hullabaloo surrounding the Nunes Memorandum and the Steele Dossier was the striking statement by Secretary of Defense James Mattis that the U.S. has “no evidence” that the Syrian government used the banned nerve agent Sarin against its own people…. In so doing, Mattis tacitly impugned the interventionists who were responsible for pushing the “Assad is guilty” narrative twice without sufficient supporting evidence…. –Now Mattis Admits There Was No Evidence Assad Used Poison Gas on His People –Newsweek

CONTEXT: WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. has no evidence to confirm reports from aid groups and others that the Syrian government has used the deadly chemical sarin on its citizens, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Friday. “We have other reports from the battlefield from people who claim it’s been used,” Mattis told reporters at the Pentagon. “We do not have evidence of it.”… –US has no evidence of Syrian use of sarin gas, Mattis says

How difficult would it be to stage a false flag attack with chlorine gas, as the Douma attack has been reported to be? You could do it yourself just by accident. Like this – – –

CONTEXT: What happens when you combine bleach and ammonia.? It will make Chlorine Gas (among other deadly things) That warning is there to protect you. Household bleach has a chemical formula of NaOCl – that is, one atom each of sodium, oxygen, and chlorine. Its chemical name, for the curious, is sodium hypochlorite. Ammonia has a chemical formula of NH 3 , that is, one atom of nitrogen and three atoms of hydrogen. When these two compounds are combined, the following reaction takes place: 2NaOCl + 2NH 3 –> 2NaONH 3 + Cl 2 . Do you see that Cl 2 on the right hand side there? This means one part chlorine gas, made up of diatomic (two-atom) molecules. It also means that the chlorine gas has been liberated from the bleach, and is quite capable of causing you harm when inhaled! ….. –What happens when you combine bleach and ammonia

This wouldn’t be the first time “we the people,” blinded by false flags, fake news, fraudcasting and ignorance etc., have been tricked into often illegal so-called “wars” and other murderous armed interventions. In fact, that’s now become pretty much Standard Operating Procedure. Like this for example – – –

Further, unlike the Russians, who have been officially invited to help long-time ally Syria, the U.S. is, according to international law, illegally involved which could have extinction-event consequences.

Monday April 9, 2018: UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Russian U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia addresses the United Nations Security Council meeting on Syria at the U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., April 9, 2018″There was no chemical weapons attack,” Nebenzia told the U.N. Security Council., “Through the relevant channels we already conveyed to the U.S. that armed force under mendacious pretext against Syria — where, at the request of the legitimate government of a country, Russian troops have been deployed – could lead to grave repercussions,” he said. –Russia says it warned U.S. of ‘grave repercussions’ if Syria attacked | Reuters

Monday April 9, 2018: Administration officials say that President Trump will soon announce his decision on a response to Syria’s alleged chemical weapons attack. All signs point to Trump ordering military action against the Assad government, … President Trump even suggested that the US might take measures against Russia over the attack, as other administration officials try to blame the Russians for the attack. Trump told reporters that Russia, Syria, and Iran may all “pay a price,” and that the US will ensure “everybody will.”… Trump Poised to Order Attacks on Syrian Government Forces — News From Antiwar.com

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It could begin like this – – –

Wednesday, April 11, 2018: –Russia will shoot down US missiles fired at Syria and retaliate against launch sites, says ambassador | The Independent

As reported by the Russian MOD in the first clip, “launch sites” would include the U.S. “Strike groups of the cruise missile carriers [that] have been formed in the east of the Mediterranean Sea, Persian Gulf and Red Sea.“

The Russians produce a group of supersonic anti-ship “Sunburn” missiles against which there is no dependable effective defense. What would happen if the U.S. launched from one or more of those missile carriers in the Mediterranean Sea, Persian Gulf or Red Sea — and the Russians sank one or more of them?

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