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Once these cities are raised to the ground, the buildings have fallen down, it is almost impossible for attackers to gain a foothold. the russians know all about this from the second world war. over 1 million red army soldiers, dying, defending stalingrad. but what happened in syria is that after a four year, conventional battle for aleppo, in northwest syria, in december 2016, and 13 days, they dropped chlorine barrel bombs to break that siege. the chlorine seeps underground, it's it's heavier than air, and people hide in rubble, and underground. the chlorine either killed from underground, o...

Is a way to break sieges and force civilians to surrender more quickly. the russian playbook from syria we've seen unfold — the attacking hospitals, attacking schools, attacking civilians, because putin wants the civilians to surrender, and breaking their morals is the easiest way to do it. we have seen that in syria. because we have had red lines about the use of chemical weapons. president obama's red line in august 2013 disappeared in a puff of smoke and we did nothing. so i think putin does not think the west will react, and he's in desperate straits. he either retreats back to moscow an...

Which was broken in 13 days by the use of chlorine barrel bombs. president putin knows that if he wants to make the civilians surrender quickly and get this over with, from his syrian experience, chemical weapons are brilliant. if you have no morals or scruples, he would probably use it all the time. so it seems that, regardless of what the intelligence might be, just purely from russia's previous actions in previous conflicts, this is very much something out of their playbook. 0h, entirely. the russian playbook from syria attacking hospitals, attacking schools, attacking civilians, because pu...

Of kinzhal is highly unlikely to materially affect the outcome of russia's campaign in ukraine." as we've been hearing, the us says there are clear signs vladimir putin may be preparing to use chemical and biological weapons in ukraine. hamish de bretton gordon is a chemical and biological weapons expert. he says from president putin's experience in syria, he knows that using these weapons is a way to break sieges and force civilians to surrender more quickly. the russian playbook from syria we've seen unfold — the attacking hospitals, attacking schools, attacking civilians, because putin wa...

And breaking their morals is the easiest way to do it. we have seen that in syria. because we have had red lines about the use of chemical weapons. president 0bama's red line in august 2013 disappeared in a puff of smoke and we did nothing. so i think putin does not think the west will react, and he's in desperate straits. he either retreats back to moscow and, you know, the end of putin, or he does something demonstrative. but what i'm doing at the moment, i have been training civilians in ukraine for the last three weeks on how to survive these dreadful chemical and biological attacks. we le...