Thread by @m_suchkov

THREAD on #US, #Russia in #Syria:
1.This is getting serious:RUS Chief of Staff says US been preparing sabotage groups at Al Tanf to stage checmical attacks to serve as pretext to attack SYR. According to #Moscow, some of the subversive groups already transferred to #FSA positions

2.MoD claims some chemicals,dozens of detonating fuzes disguised as packs of cigarettes been delivered to town of Dariya. More staged attacks being planned in towns of Al Ghabid, Qalb Loze 25 km NW #Idlib to where 20 containers of chlorines been delivered.

3.Massive info campaign beign prepared to accompany the provocations to pin the blame on #Assad,#Russia.MoD says #Moscow sees "Signs of preparations for possible strikes. In eastern part of Mediterranean,Persian Gulf,Red Sea cutting edge of sea-based cruise missles being deployed

4. Earlier,Gen.Gerasimov,head of the #Russia/n General Staff, said RUS military would "target any missiles and launchers involved in such an attack"including #US carriers,destroyers.Some RUS mil vessels now en route to #Syria.
#Moscow makes it clear it is not backing down.

5. To get a full sense of what mood is like within #Russia/n decision-making at this point see my latest story @AlMonitor:
al-monitor.com/pulse/original…

6.Timing is important. All of this happening days before Prez elections in #Russia,so #Moscow sees it as #US version of "election interference."Coincidentally,it also comes at a time of #KSA's MBS 2 week tour of #US. So more pressures on #Iran likely & #Syria is vital.

7.The escalations unwrapping quickly,#Russia/n responses, moves follow rapidly,stay tuned for I'll be continuing the thread...

8.#Russia's MFA #Lavrov: Western propaganda is increasingly getting more primitive but also more shamelesss,operating w/ dumd stereotypes.
Back in the day RUS authors suggested people "shldn't read Soviet newspapers." Today we live in the world where Western press shldn't be read

9.#Lavrov continues: Double standards in Western media appalling.When W.Aleppo being freed, all Westrern MSM was screaming about a humanitarian catastrophe. When #US was shelling #Mosul,#Raqqa,there wasnt such hysteria.Yet in neither city there was a single humanitarian corridor