I'll put him on http://fittor.fun unga fittor Why is the Security Council blocked? Does Russia, loyally backed by China, not appreciate the full bestiality of the Assad regime and the absolute unacceptability of a government gassing its own people? It is not that the Russians are inhuman, or have any illusions at all about the nature of the regime that they are backing. But they do have a morbid fear of the West’s motives, and indeed competence, in all this. They view its advocacy of democracy and human rights worldwide as both hypocritical and a recipe for chaos. Hypocritical, because the West is only too willing to suspend its proclaimed democratic motives when it looks as if they may prove disadvantageous to its interests – as most recently displayed by Western tongue-tiedness in response to the military coup in Egypt. And a recipe for chaos because destabilising established governments simply brings new monsters out of the morass – such as the rise of al-Qaeda in the Syrian civil war (and fundamentalism is a mortal Russian fear given the challenge they face in the Caucasus).