Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Trey Fowler/U.S. Navy via AP
- When President Donald Trump threatened to strike Syria, the US Navy only had one destroyer in the region — leading people to assume that it take part in the strike.
- But when the attack occured, that ship didn’t fire anything — which may have been a distraction ploy.
- Instead, ships in the Red Sea fired a large portion of the missiles, while Syria and its Russian ally apparently failed entirely to defend it.
- Russian threats to counter-attack also ultimately came to nothing.
When President Donald Trump threatened to send missiles at Syria — despite Russia’s promises to counter-attack — all eyes turned towards the US Navy’s sole destroyer in the region. But that may have been a trick.
Pundits openly scoffed at Trump’s announcement of the strike days in advance, especially considering his criticism of Barack Obama for similar talk, but the actual strike appeared to go down well.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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