No rational man likes war. But Trump isn't rational.
Yesterday, April 7 2017, President Donald J Trump went around congress and ordered an act of war against the de Jure government of Syria. Trump ordered some 59 cruise missiles to be fired at an airbase in Syria, the airbase from which the deadly gas attack was allegedly launched.The damage and casualties are not yet known, and the reaction from the factions in the region is anybody's guess now. However, the effects on the Syrian military are minimal. They will be deprived of a number of aircraft for a while, but Syria has oil revenue and can easily replace the aircraft. Have no doubt, Putin will be only too glad to sell Assad any number of fighters, perhaps with some concessions from Assad into the bargain, but the aircraft will be replaced. The only thing this deal will have done is make some Russians richer and give Putin more leverage with Assad and his military Cadre. Assad will have learned little, and will in time continue to destroy his own people, because that's all he knows.
