Bashar al-Assad Provides Trump An Escape Route — Maybe

The Trump team used Russia (Putin) to help get their boy, Trump, elected. Now, however, that Trump has been elected president and there is a Russian/Trump conspiracy cloud hanging overhead, it’s time to throw Putin and company under the bus, to once again divert attention to something else.

American military and security experts believe that since, with the aid of Russia, Assad is currently winning the war against his people, it would be silly of him to launch a chemical attack on civilians and children — the optics are horrific. In any event blame will fall upon the Syrian president. This is exactly what Trump has been looking for to take the heat off his Russia connection.

Thus he does a one-eighty turnabout lambasting Assad for such a dastardly deed and threading him with who knows what? I mean by blasting Russia’s longtime ally, Assad, Trump is saying in effect, what me in bed with the Russians? Gee, would I want to talk trash with Russia’s key ally if Putin and I were really partners in crime — ridiculous? Yet history would say why not? In Trump World everybody and everything is expendable if it advances the Donald’s self-interest of the moment.

Alas, however, this latest Trumpian dodge brings us smack up against what should be our greatest fear — a Trump/Putin pissing contest with nuclear tipped missiles as their choice of weapons. Never mind that North Korea is far more than the US can handle alone, now Trump wants to go poking the Russian bear to boot as a means for extricating himself out of another hole of his own making. Indeed it seems this president has a habit of jumping back and forth between the frying pan and the fire. It is a dizzying act to follow.