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The genie is out of the bottle
Feb. 11th, 2012 07:18 pmEven the death of hundreds of children, women and men couldn't sober up Russia and China. In the very day when Assad's regime killed more than 200 innocent people in Homs, these two "super" powers vetoed the resolution about Syria. Disgraceful, sad, pathetic.
Russia's argument: Syria is a sovereign country, who are we to mess into the matters of another country? We don't want the Libyan scenario to repeat, and what about the atrocities committed by those rebels?
China's reason is more than obvious: they need those resources from the Middle East very badly, and the US is dominating the region through its allies, and after waging a series of wars. As was pointed here recently, with their veto these two are missing a good chance to raise their diplomatic stature because they are taking the wrong side (again). And Assad's downfall being a matter of time (let's face it), the Syrian people will surely remember of the Russian and Chinese treachery one day, and it will backfire on China and Russia in a way they have failed to foresee.
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Russia's argument: Syria is a sovereign country, who are we to mess into the matters of another country? We don't want the Libyan scenario to repeat, and what about the atrocities committed by those rebels?
China's reason is more than obvious: they need those resources from the Middle East very badly, and the US is dominating the region through its allies, and after waging a series of wars. As was pointed here recently, with their veto these two are missing a good chance to raise their diplomatic stature because they are taking the wrong side (again). And Assad's downfall being a matter of time (let's face it), the Syrian people will surely remember of the Russian and Chinese treachery one day, and it will backfire on China and Russia in a way they have failed to foresee.
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