Putin Proposes Conspiracy Theory: U.S. Will Bomb Syria and Blame Assad

Russian President Vladimir Putin channeled his inner Alex Jones, Tuesday, charging that the United States was planning a false flag operation against the Assad regime in Syria.

The U.K.’s Independent quoted Putin’s allegation in a Tuesday write-up:

We have information from different sources that these provocations – I cannot call them otherwise – are being prepared in other regions of Syria, including in the southern suburbs of Damascus where there are plans to throw some substance and accuse the official Syrian authorities.

Mr. Putin didn’t offer any evidence for his allegation.

The Russian president also likened the recent U.S. missile strike in Syria to the lead up to the 2003 Iraq War (see video above).

This resembles very much the situation of 2003 and the war in Iraq…There was a campaign launched in Iraq; and it finished with the destruction of the country, the growth of the terrorist threat, and the emergence of ISIS on the international arena.

Putin included a call for an investigation into the alleged chemical weapons attack, which the U.S. used as a justification for its missile strike: “We plan to turn to the United Nations bodies in The Hague and call on the global community to thoroughly investigate into this incident and make balanced decisions based on the investigation’s outcome.”

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