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Originally Posted by belsarius
Everything has been going Assad's way. Russian support, taking back Aleppo, the rebels have been losing ground and steam in the north, ISIS being driven back and reduced. It makes no sense for him to use chemical weapons and risk international outrage and retaliation for killing 100 people. This whole situation just isn't adding up.
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Your thinking that Assaad is rational here and wants to capture hearts and minds?
This has always been about the annihilation of rebel groups, and anyone that opposes him and to generally cow the remaining population so they don't rise against him again.
I certainly don't see the benefit of a rebel group poisoning themselves, it makes no sense unless you believe that everything is an underlying conspiracy and that the rebels in the hopes of gaining international help from the American's would gas their own.
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