It's quite interesting that the USA and UK are putting increasingly more pressure on Russia about Syria. Kudos to Putin for standing up against pressure. I for one am not scared of a Russia that dares to show a bit of spine. We need some influence from the East to balance the out-of-control influence from the West. Can't say about the internal politics of Russia, but the foreign policies, at least, are good at the moment, I think.

It is interesting that media in "Western" countries are singling out Russia as the obstruction to intervention or whaterver it is that NATO would like to do in Syria. At the same time they are not critisizing China as much. Is it a case of "don't dare to bite the hand that feeds you...?" (I am thinking about the enormous debt of the USA to China..) Or is it something else? Or is Russia a bigger obstacle for some reason... nukes? better relationship with Syria than what China has? I hope Putin will not let his vote be bought, or do some underhanded compromise in this matter! The problems that the Syrian people are having will only get worse if Nato & co get involved.

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