President Donald Trump has lobbed back at Russia via Twitter, promising to send missiles to Syria in response for a recent chemical weapons attack allegedly carried out by the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
“Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and ‘smart!’,” the president said.
“You shouldn’t be partners with a Gas Killing Animal who kills his people and enjoys it!”
Trump took aim at Russia’s government in a rare rebuke, criticizing the Russian President Vladimir Putin for its support of the Syrian president.
Amid rumors that Washington may take military action over the chemical attack, a Russian senior official on Tuesday official threatened to shoot down any U.S. missile that entered Syria.
“If there is a strike by the Americans then… the missiles will be downed and even the sources from which the missiles were fired,” Russia’s ambassador to Lebanon told local media on Tuesday.
