Multiple officials familiar with the situation are now confirming that a compromise resolution on Syria’s chemical weapons disarmament plan has been reached, and that the UN Security Council is going to bring the matter to the Council around 8:00 PM eastern time, though they say a vote is not expected until Friday.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says that there was an “understanding” reached on the last matter, which as of yesterday was the Western demands for military action.
Russian officials have previously indicated that they were willing to allow some references to Chapter 7 on the UN Charter, which would theoretically allow military action, but only if the text didn’t include any specific grounds for activating it.
Russia has been extremely concerned about any mention of military action in any resolutions on Syria, after NATO nations used an authorization for a no-fly zone in Libya as justification for a full-scale war of regime change. The resolution only mentions Chapter 7 in the context of future use of chemical weapons by “anyone” inside Syria.
Of course they're still opposed! but regardless of the semantics, the US will ultimately do what it wants by interpreting things the way they want. Make no mistake – the end goal is still "regime change." They've just decided to go through the motions so it won't make them look like complete a@@holes on the world stage.
Russia is making a foolish and grave error if they allow any reference to Chapter 7 and potential military action. The English version will likely say something that can be interpreted far differently than the Russian version. The US is expert at that game.
Except that I feel that this time Russia may chose to do what it wants to do as well. This is not going to be a cake walk.
Yea, that last sentence, "anyone" inside Syria can be use in many different languages to trigger a strike.
yes, but if there will indeed be Russian boots on the ground in Syria securing those sites, the US is unlikely to attack with them there – though they may continue doing it through their terrorist proxies there – which won't go over well if they begin killing Russian soldiers with their US/Saudi supplied weaponry.
What the Russians should say is that should "anyone", and we can loosely interpret it to mean the so-called rebels, that they themselves will send air strikes to destroy them. Watch as the Americans literally crap in their pants over that. That would send the right message…. If you want to play at bad ass then meet the other bad asses who can do likewise.
The next article here is about USG recognizing the alliance between Al-Quaeda and rest of these terrorists terrorizing the Syrian nation. This recognition by itself should answer the question of USG being honest about this war being lost, wanting democracy to bloom in Syria, or the real question needs to be that USG giving up the American democracy for Saudis foot solders, wanting and helping Saudis to expend their religious territory. Although there is not much of functioning democracy practiced by such Democratic Party, nor by its leadership anything signaling the promotion of democracy anywhere which make such democracy to chose between being falsified or non at all. What is happening in Syria and what is reported in fact answers the question that: there is NON democracy coming out of a NON functioning democracy which its bases are militarism.
You want democracy, you stop supporting terrorism to start with, you want democracy to flourish stop supporting tyrants or apartheid, you want democracy look for clues who and what social politics based on democracy and what is not, in this case Saudis and UAE social politics is NOT based on democracy nor their foot solders-terrorists-mercenaries are. They are nothing but stone aged BARBARIANS on the other side of any wall waiting for moment to enter, their job, to demolish any democracy as they are trying to do in Syria and have done in Libya and doing it in Iraq. In the other hand, USG main ideas never was based on establishing democracy anywhere, if they did they wouldn't insult democracy by cooperating with tyrants-apartheid regimes and now recognizing barbarians.
But you see, "they" — the US ruling class: pols, bankers, corporatists, MIC, and the Israelis — have no interest whatsoever in democracy. That's just the lipstick they put on the pig so the yokels will see how fetching "she" is. The fairy story for those regular people whose consent needs to be manufactured, and who still — after all the history of demonstrations to the contrary — still believe, still want to believe, still need — like an addict "needs" — to believe in the phony-ass mythology of American goodness and superiority. Their self-image, self-worth, and consequent sense of self-importance is tied up with and dependent upon phony American "exceptionalism". The American public is a zombie mob of ego-hooked junkies, and the US ruling class owns all but a tiny fraction of them.
What the ruling class wants is total dominance, nothing less. It's been in total runaway control of the US since the seventies, and now that the world economy has gone global, it wants total dominance of that. So it seeks to transition from the ruling class of the US to the ruling class of the world, which is particularly crucial now, because the US is rapidly fading from prominence on the world stage.
Destroying the independent status of first Syria and then Iran is the program. And just to be clear, stripping the bones of the dieing US before relocating — like say, Blackwater — to Dubai is a totally predictable feature of that program.
Talk of "democracy" just means you're still bogged down in a cartoon of reality.
So what do you suggest or recommend for American people to do beside all that criticism as yours. Which political party would you suggest for people to join, where is that political party, what's the name of it, what is their agenda or philosophy, whom is running it and what is their manifesto consists of. Green Party is about green, peace and justice party have a very long time to even be recognized by over 15000 people, US social liberal democrats are in power making it worse then yesterday, communist USA is engaged in making their offices nicer, having their conferences in Las Vegas rather then looking deeper into their social political agendas, the Marxist Leninism working people party have no party and categorically refuses to recognize that there are others than THEM and very happy with what they got, the left of socialism and social democrats ideology is what Marxism economic have visioned the present vulture capitalism, created by what you call "carton of reality", it simply tells you that you cannot get a hammer in your hand point at people's head forcing them to understand Marxism or any other humanitarian ideology, people already living the drama by driving to work 2-4 hours daily, by working 2-4 jobs to pay their dues and by the end of the month they are back in square one.
At this moment in time, the present danger people around the world are facing is THE falsified democracy which is based only on militarism industrial complex managed by vulture capitalism economic system. Here, it is not about USA alone, the Europeans have the same complex.
Make it short: Obama healthcare is as falsified as the leading elites of US Democratic Party, is a bribe for the American people NOT to vote for Ron Paul and others whom are against all the wars and USA militarism occupations around the world, when you achieved such goal than the economic aspects of what is vulture capitalism dominance system becomes hallow with no meaning but to be reformed for free education, free universal healthcare, long lasting with good pay jobs, free daycare centers for everyone, longer holidays, longer maternity leave for mothers and fathers with pay, better and more secured pension for retired, a total recall of veterans health and housing system, a total reform of justice system and etc. And……..
And what are they going to do about the two nukes Israel dropped on Syria, one on the night of 4/5 May 2013 15 miles out of Damascus and the other smaller one near Omes on about 6 Aug 2013?
Hadn't you heard? In response to the two imaginary Israeli nukes, one imaginary US nuke was dropped on Tel Aviv and one imaginary Russian nuke was dropped on Haifa. Happy now?
when they are disarmed the war can begin.
Yes, exactly the point. However, we're still a long way from a disarmed Syria. I suspect that the whole "chemical disarmament" kabuki is the delaying tactic that will hold off the US, and allow Syria to destroy the "rebels". When push comes to shove, Syria/Russia will link the elimination of Syrian STRATEGIC DETERRENT WMDs to Israeli elimination of Israeli WMDs, and the whole process will stall due to Israeli unwillingness.
It is not possible that Assad or Putin fail to see that once Syria's chemical weapons are gone, Syria is finished and Assad is dead and Putin is chump of the world. Not gonna happen.