The tables are turning in Syria, the Syrian army is cracking but the results will be a catastrophe for the Alawites. Where will they go? Turkey? Jordan? Lebanon? How many deaths will result. Russia and China have prevented intervention and must accept responsibility for the collapse. Partition of Syria is a possibility but without intervention it is impossible. We are looking at several hundred thousand dead and millions of refugees in the coming months.
THe Russians have been acting like it is the days of Peter the Great, they have learned nothing from communism or from the 20th century. They could have joined the intervention group in Libya, but instead they just sat back and complained, "oh, you have gone too far," etc. Now they will have the blood of a sea of victims of their antiquated foreign policy on their hands. What a waste.