This is Media Roots Radio

with your host, Robbie Martin.

Just me solo tonight.

It is Thursday, April 6,

that's 6.33 p.m. Pacific time. 10 minutes ago, U.S. military just launched more than 50 Tomahawk missiles at Syrian military bases,

at Assad's military bases, specifically one military base that allegedly held the chemical weapons.

So this is really disturbing information.

I'm kind of just trying to watch TV at the same time and I'm doing this.

This is so fucked up, man.

I mean, where is this map from that CNN is showing right now?

Let me guess.

Is this a fucking I Institute for the Study of War map?

I feel physically ill right now.

So I'm going to try to do this podcast still.

But the casualness in which these people are talking about this is very disturbing.

They're saying Trump is getting ready to talk to reporters at Mara Lago Resort about the war

that he just launched. This is a fucking nightmare, everybody. And I hate to say I told you so

to people who thought that Trump was somehow going to be better on war than Hillary Clinton.

But I mean, there's really no reason to think that Trump wouldn't also start World War III.

I mean, I guess what's shocking is that he just decides to do this shit so fast.

Apparently, he didn't even consult with any allies of the United States or a lot of State Department officials didn't even know this was about to happen.

I just saw John Hudson from Foreign Policy tweet that.

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