Will the West EVER act on Syria?

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Very smart play by Putin today. If he wanted to help Assad accelerate another victory in Syria by using chemical weapons then this was the time to do it. After Prime Minster May reunited Europe against Putin in response for the Salisbury nerve agent attack - which, apparently, has cost no lives as father and daughter are getting better now - would Europe be as united against nerve agents used on women and children in Syria? Well Putin has called Europe and Americas bluff again and done exactly that and I have no doubt we will do nothing. He will win this one and will turn around and say the UK doesn’t value Syrian lives. Did May fall into a trap here? We know chemical attacks turn the war in Syria. In 2013 the word and the UN got together to figure a way of chickening out in getting involved in the growing Syria war, mostly for political reasons as nerve agents were being used in Syria, Obama’s so called red Line. Prime Minister David Cameron was particularly devious. He publicly backed action in Syria but asked for a vote in parliament on it, secretly wanting it to fail so he did not have to risk the next election while at war. Labor duly backed down from voting for the war and the vote was lost, making Labor look like the villains. Cameron did not need to ask the House and could have just acted. He chose to contrive not to and five years later war still wages and thousands upon thousands have died. Secretly the West are not too bothered about Assad winning back his country and wish this would just get done but Islamic State complicated things and now it’s a hotspot for potential world war. Trump needs a distraction from a Stripper called Stormy and so may chose to fling some token out of date munitions at Syrian forces but we aint going to act to stop chemical attacks in my lifetime