Who really knows. America and allies say it is and Russia and allies deny an attack even took place. I find both scenarios plausible tbh. Assad would use chemical weapons to win IMO and I can see how leaders like Macron and Trump use this to appear strong and improve poll numbers. But so far the only retaliation we know of was Russia submitting a resolution to the Security Council condemning the attack. 3 countries voted for it and 8 voted against it.
It won't be Russia and America that start a massive mid east war. It will be Israel and Iran. Isreal has already struck inside Syria a couple times, Syria has shot down an Israeli jet, Iran is using the land route through Iraq and Syria to reinforce Lebanon and Hezbollah and set up a military presence in Syria. Israel is on record as saying it will pay any price to stop Iran from having their military on their border. This is where war will come from.
Israelis have had their eye on Iran since Khomeni. Maybe before then. Seems that Hitler had some folks in the area back in 1940...... The Muslim Brotherhood is reputedly a downstream development from way back when...... Anyone ever hear about the rhetoric some anti-Israelis use? loosely, annihilation of every last Jew. Yep, not a stretch to imagine Hitler being at the root of that.....
Obama openly used US tax revenues to politically oppose Netanyahu in the recent election there, and gave the Iranians a planeload of cash to fund their crusade, and literally gave them a license to nukes. Russia has been helping Iran too. And North Korea. And China.
Not a stretch to infer that Obama promoted genocide.....not a stretch to infer that Obama "conspired" with the Russians and Chinese to ultimately annihilate every last Jew in Israel. Well, except the Russians always deal double. And Russian Jews have been "returning" to Israel... millions of them. Russian is what you hear on the streets in Jerusalem....
The British Lord Balfour pushed to create a homeland for the Jews. Made a deal with some German Jewish bankers. The Kaiser in WWI lost financial support for the war, and Germany got sacked by the West, and the palistinian homeland was opened up for the Zionists, and the arabs sorted booted about. A psychopath named Hitler noted the treason behind the German defeat, and hated the ignominious state of affairs in Germany, and managed somehow to get US industrialists to finance his political agenda.... and betrayed his benefactors. Meanwhile, in Israel, the Jewish returnees included a lot of communist ideologues, who made a deal with Stalin. "No Peace with the Arabs" to create a political liability for the United States, whose conservative Christians would always support US aid to Israel.
And so we do.
But we've had a sort of "War Party" among military and industrial cartels going on since some Brit "progressives".... Fabians.... inserted themselves into the American political arena via a little recruitment agency called "The Council on Foreign Relations" beginning in the 1890s, under the leadership of Lord Cecil Rhodes. Some of those "thinkers"..... schemers.... have been planning another Great War since the 1960s in the Mideast.....well, who knows.... maybe before that.....
Pretty sure there will be one.
Your best chance to delay or stall that is Donald Trump.... well, except for the Generals who advise him..... still, just because he's not Hillary.... and just because he is not a globalist.... and just because he is the Commander in Chief, I think the War Party will have to wait until he's impeached and removed from office, and replaced by a devout Christian moron who will think it's God's War.
The "War Party" has led us from "Remember the Maine".... the yellow journalism New York Times slogan circa 1898 that launched us into the war with Spain...we took Cuba and the Philippines(take a bow, Lord Cecil Rhodes).... through WWI, (take another bow, Lord Cecil Rhodes) with the New York Times leading the chorus with "Over There", the League of Nations(another bow for Lord Cecil Rhodes), WWII, the United Nations and endless wars everywhere.....
take your bow, Lord Cecil Rhodes with your dupe clan Rockefeller.
Lord Cecil Rhodes' world vision was white supremacist rule through artful puppetry everywhere. See the little black men dance when the white man yanks the string. Here is where the word "Racist" really belongs, but... oh my... the term has been rendered into a mindless little slogan to jiggle the public mind. A string to manipulate the public mind..... a word to rage a mob....