Roudy
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Ya okay let us know when that happens. Especially after the US has declared it will get involved now that it has been proven that Assad used chemical weapons against his own people. Do you really think the Russians want to step into this mess now!Why don't you strap on that old black belt and flip Vlad (Judo) Putin on this subject:True dat. Any Peacekeeping force from any member of the UN Security Council is forbidden by the Israeli-Syrian Peace Treaty of 1974. Superman ain't a Red Bear.Won't happen.
"The Russian president knew perfectly well that Israel and most likely the UN would bar his offer of Russian troops for the Golan force on legal grounds: The 1974 ceasefire accord precludes the five, veto-wielding UN Secretary Council permanent members from serving with the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF). He put the offer forward nonetheless for two reasons:
"1. As a reminder to the US and Chinese Presidents Obama and Xi Jinping, holding their first face to face in California, that neither of them controlled the state of play over embattled Syria and that Russia held the whip hand by virtue of its leadership of the Iranian-Syrian-Iraqi-Hizballah alliance.
"2. As the groundwork for his next moves for deploying Russian troops on the Syrian Golan. Next time, he won’t ask the US, the UN or Israel for permission. He will go straight to his ally, Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus, and advise him of the importance of deploying Russian soldiers to the Golan – on the same footing as the US military deployment in Jordan. Placing the unit just outside the Golan separation zone would save Moscow having to turn to the UN or Israel first."
Putin acts to override Israeli, UN objections to Russian troops on the Golan
Syria is a just client who owes them lots of money, gone bad. That's all they're after. If the West can assure them that they will get their $$$$$ For the weapons they sold and financed the regime (and not get stiffed as they did in Libya) , then Russia will simply step away. As they say, follow the $$$$$.