Syria's possible ceasefire

A ceasefire, even Peace, in Syria would be welcomed, with 9,000 dead and counting.

U.N.-brokered cease-fire appears to take hold in Syria -- Washington Post

Democrats are hopeful; Republicans are silent.

Some newspapers in the US portray Russia as a hold-out prima donna, merely strutting on the World State, showing off it's veto power.  It is claimed that China is merely following along.

Per contra:  

•••  Russia has fought bloody wars against Sunni Muslim nationalists in Chechnya and many Sunni Muslim attacks on Russian civilians; 


•••  Syria is right next door, not separated from Russia by two great oceans; 


•••  there are three Sunni Muslim Turkic republics inside the Russian Federation; 


•••  Turkey is a member of NATO and has missals pointed at Russia, 


•••  Damascus and Tehran and Bagdad were once, not long ago, Turkic and Persian was the Court language of a Turkic Empire; 


•••  Turkey has eyes on control of Syria, 


and so on.

Armed Militia have lost perhaps too much to settle for a continuation of the Assad dictatorship on any terms; and massive rallies are planned for this Friday, to test the ceasefire.

The horrible Saudis with their Salafi surrogates foment civil war in Syria, in the ope of establishing a repressive Sunni state there; and so on. See Salafis, Shiites,Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Battle for Syria

Assad's forces defy ceasefire deal in Syria

Annan says Syria promises ceasefire – Syrians, under bombardment, mock ‘ceasefire’ Kuwaiti Times

The Syrian rebel army patrols an area near Homs --  The Telegraph

Pretty bad.  Not genocidal, as in South Sudan.  I show only the least horrible of the images on the web:

. . . and with all the horror surrounding them, the South sudanese have a football team!

"Hope Springs eternal in the human breast."