Nikki Haley: If The UN Doesn't Act Against Assad, We Might, WWIII Scenario Brewing, Passover Week Concerns

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Nikki Haley: If the UN doesn’t act against Assad for this chemical attack, we might

Samantha Power spent her academic career arguing that the world has a responsibility to protect innocents from genocide, got appointed Obama’s ambassador to the UN because of it, then sat around doing nothing about Syria for four years because her boss couldn’t figure out a solution. Is that Haley’s fate too? Trump sure sounded like he cared in the Rose Garden this afternoon, but which Trump is the real one — today’s version or the one in 2013 who was screaming from the rooftops that the U.S. shouldn’t get involved in Syria?

Two points of note in Haley’s address below. 

One: Although Trump talked tough about Assad “crossing lines” in his presser, he said nothing about Russia’s role in propping him up. Haley observes no such niceties. She goes right at Putin here, saying at one point, “How many more children have to die before Russia cares?” Not for the first time, she appears to be running a conventional hawkish Republican foreign policy while Trump does his best to preserve some small chance of detente with Moscow. 

Two: She’s plain as she can be in the final minute of her speech that U.S. military action is on the table, warning the UN that if it can’t get its act together to do something about WMD attacks — and it can’t, thanks to Russia’s Security Council veto — then individual nations reserve the right to act unilaterally. Is Trump onboard with that? Is her nominal boss, Rex Tillerson? This is another bold pronouncement in the “red line” mold that places American credibility on the line. If Trump decides that bombing Assad would simply be too complicated with Russia on the other side and Kurdish forces preparing for an offensive against Raqqa, who’ll take Haley seriously anymore?

And by the way, when did Haley suddenly decide that getting tough with Assad was an urgent priority for the U.S.? Just six days ago, echoing Tillerson, she said this:

“You pick and choose your battles and when we’re looking at this, it’s about changing up priorities and our priority is no longer to sit there and focus on getting Assad out,” U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley told a small group of reporters.

“Do we think he’s a hindrance? Yes. Are we going to sit there and focus on getting him out? No,” she said. “What we are going to focus on is putting the pressure in there so that we can start to make a change in Syria.”

In Ankara on Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Assad’s longer-term status “will be decided by the Syrian people.”

Haley’s backed herself into a corner here where, in theory, she’s for hitting Assad to punish him for the atrocity in Idlib but not for hitting him so hard that he’d topple over and then the U.S. would have to help manage the ensuing power vacuum. Which, actually, makes her approach similar to Obama’s in late summer 2013. (An “unbelievably small” strike, John Kerry promised at the time.)

World War 3 Nightmare Scenario Brewing

When China's President Xi Jinping visits Florida to summit with President Donald Trump in just days on Thursday and Friday, we can be sure that North Korea and potential loose-cannon dictator Kim Jong Un will be on the minds of many after Trump warned the US will act alone on North Korea if China fails to assist us. 

Claiming "if China is not going to solve North Korea, we will", Trump has made it clear that that the NKorean dictator won't be dealing with the United States of the past which announced its time and intention to strike in the Middle East during the Obama administration, allowing those they intended to obliterate to get out before 'the event'.

Claiming he had 'great respect' for Xi and 'great respect for China', Trump further recently warned things could either turn out well for everybody or things could turn out not so well for anyone: “China has great influence over North Korea. And China will either decide to help us with North Korea, or they won’t. And if they do that will be very good for China, and if they don’t it won’t be good for anyone.”As NBC recently reported after a meeting with a high-ranking North Korean defector with ties to the NKorean dictator, "the world should be ready" as the 'desperate' dictator is prepared to use nuclear weapons to strike the US and our allies. Yet their warning that Kim is preparing to use long-range missiles to strike the US and deliver a horrific nuclear attack upon us rings hollow. While such an attack would be absolutely devastating to the US, it could be so much worse and NKorea is already prepared to take all of America down at once...and they've already practiced doing so. 

In this August 19th, 2014 story from Voice of America news they reported the United States was defenseless against a North Korean EMP threat and NKorean dictator Kim Jong Un had already practiced EMP attacks against us. They quoted Dr. Peter Vincent Pry in that story who warned NKorea practiced an EMP strike against the U.S. in 2013 when it orbited a satellite at the optimal altitude and trajectory to carry out such an attack. And while the mainstream media continues to call any EMP threat to America by NKorea 'fake news', the fact that NORAD moved their most sensitive equipment back to their Cheyenne Mountain bunker back in 2015 helps prove they know EMP is a very real threat. While NORAD's 2015 move didn't specifically reference NKorea, it's clear by events unfolding in 2017 that NKorea poses one of the biggest foreign policy and national security challenges that President Donald Trump faces. The recent story headlines from across the internet include:

North Korea 'must be stopped': Defense Secretary 'Mad Dog' Mattis issues stark warning to Kim Jong-un over dictator's plan to threaten nuclear attack on AmericaNorth Korea threatens to hit back if it's slapped with more sanctions over weapons tests as it prepares to launch a NUKE‘Win Tonight’: Men and Women at South Korean Base Poised for War 24/7All options are on the table with North Korea. But for China and the U.S., all the options are bad

As four-star General Jack Keane recently stated, the US may have no choice but a pre-emptive strike upon Kim's nuclear facilities while predicting that China's efforts to 'reel in' Kim will fail. As the Daily Mail story reports, President Donald Trump definitely respects and listens to Keane, who declined to be Trump's Defense Secretary. And according to Keane and a number of other national security experts, America might not have a choice soon: 

Trump signaled his agenda for the talks on Monday, when he told reporters that America is willing to go it alone in order to 'solve North Korea'. 

Speaking to The Times on Tuesday, Keane said: 'A preemptive strike against launch facilities, underground nuclear sites, artillery and rocket response forces and regime leadership targets may be the only option left on the table. 

'We are rapidly and dangerously moving towards a military solution.'

Passover week terror promised by Palestinians

Using social media to call for terror attacks and fires “to burn the land like an inferno,” Palestinians geared up for Israel’s Passover week observances and their own annual April 17 celebration of “Prisoner’s Day.”

The ruling Fatah Party of the official Palestinian Authority government led the cries for violence that would “escalate the confrontation with the occupier.”

“Let us turn April 17, 2017, into a fire that will burn the occupiers and burn the land like an inferno under the feet of the tyrants, and let’s escalate the popular resistance everywhere,” the Fatah student movement posted on the official Fatah Facebook page. “Therefore, we call on our brave students and the masses of our people to escalate the confrontation with the occupier at all the places of confrontation.”

In previous April 17 “Prisoner’s Day” terror, some 16 Israelis have been murdered.

“We hold the Nazi occupation gang responsible for what will happen. We warn against taking any steps of oppression against our brave prisoners,” the post continued. “We declare in a clear manner that splits the sky: Fatah and its Shabiba are committed to a promise. We will not hesitate to burn the land under the feet of the tyrants if [Israel] harms the prisoners. Whoever wants to test us should remember the Wadi Al-Haramiya operation (i.e., terror attack, 10 murdered), the Ein Arik operation (i.e., terror attack, 6 murdered), and the hundreds of heroic operations that were carried out by Fatah members and the fighters of our people.”

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