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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Syria:
I'm not outraged but I do think it was an incredibly stupid thing to say. Nor was it immediately obvious what he meant.
Nazi's did use nerve gas on the Eastern frontNo, actually they didnt. So basically you are just wrong, maybe that explains why you dont get his point.
The whole thing is just pathetic. So typical of the outrage culture, this is s pathetically trivial, that if people want to get outraged, it doesn't even register on my radar. A guy says that Assad did something that even Hitler didnt do to his enemies, i.e use chemical weapons.. and people go mental. It is like people cannot see context or connect dots nowadays, much easier to just rant
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As for chemical warfare in WW2 - yes Hitler didn't want it used (despite having enormous stockpiles) because of the MAD scenario.
However I'm pretty certain I've read somewhere that it was used by rogue Generals on a limited scale on the eastern front - maybe Crimea.
Wiki confirms
[quote]The Nazis did use chemical weapons in combat on several occasions along the Black Sea, notably in Sevastopol, where they used toxic smoke to force Russian resistance fighters out of caverns below the city, in violation of the 1925 Geneva Protocol.[39] The Nazis also used asphyxiating gas in the catacombs of Odessa in November 1941, following their capture of the city, and in late May 1942 during the Battle of the Kerch Peninsula in eastern Crimea.[39] Victor Israelyan, a Soviet ambassador, reported that the latter incident was perpetrated by the Wehrmacht's Chemical Forces and organized by a special detail of SS troops with the help of a field engineer battalion. Chemical Forces General Ochsner reported to German command in June 1942 that a chemical unit had taken part in the battle.[40] After the battle in mid-May 1942, roughly 3,000 Red Army soldiers and Soviet civilians not evacuated by sea were besieged in a series of caves and tunnels in the nearby Adzhimuskai quarry. After holding out for approximately three months, "poison gas was released into the tunnels, killing all but a few score of the Soviet defenders."[41] Thousands of those killed around Adzhimushk were documented to have been killed by asphyxiation from gas.[40]
In February 1943, German troops stationed in Kuban received a telegram: "Russians should be eventually cleared out of the mountain range with gas."[42] The troops also received two wagons of toxin antidotes.[/quote] -
Interesting take from a survivor of one of Assads previous chemical attacks.
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@Rembrandt said in Syria:
Interesting. So is this saying democrats arent too fussed with chemical weapon attacks while republicans are dead against them?
It might be saying that if this was the first time democrat and republican voters had had chemical weapon attacks in Syria to react to.
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@Donsteppa said in Syria:
@Rembrandt said in Syria:
Interesting. So is this saying democrats arent too fussed with chemical weapon attacks while republicans are dead against them?
It might be saying that if this was the first time democrat and republican voters had had chemical weapon attacks in Syria to react to.
The difference is who's in the top job now
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Syria could be planning chemical attack, White House says
Sounds like complete b.s. Nikki Haley is a saber-rattling moron. The last alleged gas attack by Assad has been debunked by the evidence, it was almost certainly detonated by ISIS, and since Trump gave them cover last time they'll only be encouraged to do more of the same. It's Trump's blind spot and may bring him ruin.
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