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Saudis offer Russia secret oil deal if it drops Syria - Telegraph

Saudi Arabia appears to be threatening Russia over its support of Syria's government:

According to this article, Saudi Arabia is basically telling Russia "Stop helping Assad and we will give you oil. Keep helping Assad, and we will tell our Chechen friends to terrorize your citizens during the Winter Olympics in Sochi."

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I wonder who under current circumstances would stand for the Syrian "government" besides the regime itself; it's such a mess now, and the only solution to it is to get the regime deactivated ASAP, only that way the mass killings can be stopped; it seems like everyone realizes that except for the "crowned prince" who inherited dictatorial powers from his shady daddy; what some governments are trying to achieve by supporting that regime is really inconceivable; if I was Russian, the first question I'd be asking myself would be, "does my country have any sense of self-respect at all???"