About the politics and International Diplomacy around this, because russia maintains this was that syrian air strike on a store of rebel held weapons, they hold the veto on the security council. There will not even be a resolution, probably, condemning this . Russia has consistently used its veto on the council to veto any attempt to castigate assad, given the fact that moscow is his biggest patron. Until recently, President Trump made clear his Main Objective in syria was to defeat Islamic State and he was considering cultivating assad as an ally and now this has happened, any attempt to cultivate assad or support Vladimir Putin becomes morally unconscionable for trump and at the same time he criticised president obama for being weak and he failed during the last chemical attack to abide by his promise to ta ke attack to abide by his promise to take action if assad breached the red line and he cited chemical attacks. He also said, whatever you do, do not go into syria . Do not ta ke d