Just like I predicted: REUTERS: Putin says Syria chemical weapons handover will only work if US rejects use of force.
Conditions, conditions, conditions.
Putin and Assad have no good intentions, just narrow self interest. They are playing the West.
And the elephant in the room is Iran. With Obama a dead duck the road is clear for the mad mullahs to go nuclear. Which they would be very happy to use.
btw Assad has about 1,000 tons of chemical agents and Sarin has a lethal concentration for 1 minute exposure of 0.1 to 0.07 mg per human. So he can kill everyone on planet earth several times over.
Last edited by Eclectic; 10th Sep 2013 at 17:28.