President Donald Trump warned on Wednesday that airstrikes against Syria were imminent after a Russian diplomat pledged that U.S. missiles would be shot down and their launch sites targeted. On Thursday, Trump offered a potentially different time frame.
"Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria," Trump said in a Wednesday tweet. "Get ready Russia because they will be coming, nice and new and 'smart.'"On Thursday morning, the president tweeted that he "never said when an attack on Syria would take place."His comments follow an alleged chemical attack on a rebel enclave near Damascus over the weekend, and come after the Russian ambassador to Lebanon, Alexander Zasypkin, warned that American military assets would be targeted in the event of a strike against Syria.
