White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Monday rebuked Russian criticism of the United States' military strikes on a Syrian airbase last week, suggesting that Russia is on the wrong side of the argument.
"I think when you contrast the two groups of countries sets, it's pretty clear that we're on the right side of this issue," Spicer said at Monday's White House press briefing after he mentioned that the U.S. received backing from several countries.
Russia "stands with Syria, North Korea, and Iran," Spicer added.
"It speaks pretty loudly the number of countries that have stood shoulder-to-shoulder with this president," Spicer said Monday of President Trump's decision to order the military action.
He defended the strikes on a Syrian airbase that the U.S. believes the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used last Tuesday to launch a chemical weapons attack on civilians.
"The action that we took last week has been widely praised domestically and internationally as a great step to ensure the deterrence and proliferation of chemical weapons and of action against innocent people," Spicer said.
