25/4/18

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Early morning on April 14, the US, UK and France sent a barrage of missiles to Syria. The next day, Assad's forces sent heavy fire to Homs and Hama. You know, just another day in Syria, which shows that Assad's military machine keeps working in full gear, reality on the ground hasn't changed, and the 7-year old conflict is far from solved.

"Mission accomplished", Trump bragged in Twitter (reminds you of someone?) The strike presumably hit a research center near Damascus that had been used for producing WMDs. Except, 105 missiles later, the allies' "mission" is neither clear nor an iota more achievable than before, let alone accomplished.

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