Our friends the Russians:
Russia on Friday questioned the work and future of an inquiry into who is to blame for toxic gas attacks in Syria and said it would decide whether to support extending the mandate after investigators submit their next report to U.N. Security Council.
The Russians agreed to the 2013 deal to pretend Syria got rid of chemical weapons capabilities in order to buy time to save Assad's regime.
I wrote the deal would not deprive Assad of chemical weapons--and worse, it would strengthen Assad and the jihadis:
And in the bonus style point count, we've not only made it more likely that Assad could win, but if he doesn't win we made it more likely that the jihadis will be the winners[.]
That has worked. So naturally Russia wants to end any type of enforcement mechanism that examines Assad's violation of the deal.
Say, Russia is already running interference for Iran in having the IAEA inspect Iranian sites to enforce the farcical 2015 Iran nuclear deal, now aren't they? It's like a pattern, or something.
President Obama in his ideological blindness and his windsurfing idiot savant Secretary of State Kerry gave us both the Syria chemical weapons deal and the Iranian nuclear deal.
