Russia's proposal on Syria

[Southside]

I know its been a million of these threads but whatever..

Do you think Russia's proposal to have Syria had over its chemical stockpile to the international community will work?

[Stronk Serb]

As I heard on the news, Syria agreed to hand them over.

[TheBigUnit]

Doesnt Russia seem to be the more humane country here??? i personally think its a great idea both russia and usa because kinda benefit, im pretty convinced the rebels set off the chemical bombs

[Human]

I don't think it's really going to work. I don't believe that they used the chemical weapons in the first place - so in my opinion it makes no difference except for kind of a token of 'okay then we'll prove we don't need chemical weapons'

[Jean Poutine]

The only possible resolution here is an UN-enforced ceasefire. And by enforced, I mean militarily. Get a bunch of peacekeepers over there and shoot anybody waving a gun around.

As long as we don't have an international law court whose judgements are authoritative and binding on everyone with the power to enact sanctions, we'll see the same shit happen over and over again, countries like the USA and Russia using conflicts around the world as proxy wars, tragedies emptied of their sense and abused by the superpowers. Individual countries make the law and enact sanctions how they please. It makes no legal sense at all, it's the equivalent of letting citizens take justice in their hands.

As long as individual countries are the most powerful independant bodies with the power to flaunt international law and do pretty much whatever they please, we'll never have peace.

[Yolo98]

They didnt even use chemical weapons in the first place. It was rebels gassing people to try and frame the Syrian government so that the west would respond by bombing them. The handing over of the governments cw stockpile will only further prove that they havent been using any in the first place.

[TheBigUnit]

the chemical weapons themselves were probably from syrian stockpiles, syria has/had one of the largest chemical weapon depots in the world

[Sir Suomi]

Although I'm not wishing for it to happen, I wouldn't mind dropping a few bombs on Assad's forces and the Islamic extremist groups fighting for "Syria's freedom".