Putin: 'Can't Say 100 Percent' Assad Will Give Up Chemical Weapons

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he isn’t “100 percent” certain that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will fulfill his commitment to give up chemical weapons.

Putin’s comments today may indicate that Russia, Syria’s arms provider and ally, harbors doubts about Assad’s reliability, though less so than the U.S., which has demanded a quick and intrusive process to prevent the use of Syria’s chemical arsenal and to test whether the Syrian leader will give it up.

Putin said Syria has taken “practical steps” by joining the Chemical Weapons Convention barring such arms and it now faces a disarmament process under a U.S.-Russia accord reached last week in Geneva that begins with an accounting of the weapons inventory due Sept. 21.

“Will it be possible to bring everything to a conclusion?” Putin said in Valdai, Russia. “I can’t say 100 percent. But everything that we’ve seen up to now inspires confidence that this can and will be done.”

This has been a recurring theme throughout my recent posts. At how Obama was made the absolute, total fool that he is, the abject ineptitude, incompetence characterized by GayMuzzie, demonstrated by his State Department making him the laughing stock worldwide. And that was under the circumstances that the Syrian gimmicky ruse in giving up its poison gas would come to fruition, I never believing it would ever go through.

As I've posted previously;
On what basis is there to believe that these two nations, one rogue, one outlaw, both on the polar opposite end of the political spectrum, will follow through on what has never been attempted, let alone accomplished? Are you envisioning any scenario in which Russia demands the poison gas for removal, that which has been instrumental in making Syria a regional power on the strength of its illicit arsenal in its ability to intimidate, threaten others with impunity? Do you see Syria ready to give it all up on some say so, as if Syria would ever reveal the secret locations of, as if this outlaw nation working with its outlaw patron in the removal of its outlawed arsenal of death, would ever rid itself of its most effective card in its struggle to maintain its survival?

So, now, we have Putin backtracking. He's not the master chess player he's purported to be. Anyone would take on the visage of savvy statesman, even Chamberlain would look good, if you had Obama in which to pull the rug from underneath.

IMO, it indicates that Putin is no fool! You can NEVER be "certain" of anything! Pronouncing the words "ALWAYS" or "NEVER" will typically prove one to be either naive or a fool more often than not!

One doesn't have to admire Putin to understand that he is a formidable adversary....

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