Russians Are Incapable of Being Embarrassed

You have to admire Russian chutzpah.

Russia is eager to go the UN route with Syria, according to their Foreign Ministry's statement:

"Any unilateral military action bypassing the United Nations will ... lead to further escalation (in Syria) and will affect the already explosive situation in the Middle East in the most devastating way."

Moscow said any military action would severely hamper joint U.S.-Russian efforts for an international peace conference to end a civil war that has killed more than 100,000 people.

The same way Russia petitioned the United Nations Security Council for a strongly worded resolution of regret over a border incident in South Ossetia stomped on small, defenseless Georgia in 2008?

Yeah, Russia's peace efforts are going so well that after 100,000 dead with conventional means, Assad decided to get fancy with some poison gas.

Russia sure can pick their friends, eh?