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Russia’s Appalling Cynicism on Syria
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According to Hillary Clinton, a delivery of helicopter gunships is on its way from Russia to President Bashar Al-Assad in Syria. If so, any prospect of a managed end to the bloodshed there is dwindling fast, and Russia will bear responsibility.
Foreign military intervention will eventually come if diplomacy fails. The only questions will be when, what form that intervention will take and who will carry it out. In the meantime, many thousands more Syrians will likely die.