US President Donald Trump huddles with top national security advisers Thursday to weigh his military options in Syria, as Moscow warns against any move that risks triggering a conflict between Russia and the United States.
The drumbeat of military action appears to grow louder, as Russia stonewalls diplomatic efforts at the United Nations and France declares “proof” that Moscow’s Syrian ally carried out a deadly chemical weapons attack that killed more than 40 Syrians.
“It’s too bad that the world puts us in a position like that,” says Trump, as Defense Secretary James Mattis heads to the West Wing to present options for a retaliatory strike.
“We’re having a number of meetings today, we’ll see what happens, we’re obviously looking at that very closely,” he tells lawmakers and governors in the Cabinet Room.
“Now we have to make some further decisions, so they will be made fairly soon,” adds first-term commander-in-chief, who earlier appeared to equivocate on the timing of strikes.
— AFP
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