President Trump and his French counterpart-slash-friend Emmanuel Macron pledged a joint response to Bashar Assad’s chemical weapons attack on Saturday, which targeted civilians in Douma, Syria.
That means it is highly likely that the U.S. and France will conduct reprisal military strikes this week, perhaps with the support of British Prime Minister Theresa May. As Stephen Bush notes at the New Statesman, May has the votes to win parliamentary support for strikes even if opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn’s bloc votes against action.
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