Syria

A breakthrough in Syria announces the headline … with the details listed as:

“A cessation of hostilities is to come into force within a week, US secretary of state John Kerry has said.”

All good so far …

“In an agreement brokered between the US, Russia and other powers overnight in Munich, a UN task force will meet within days ‘to develop the modalities for a long-term, comprehensive and durable cessation of violence’.”

Developing modalities? In which dimension did these people never finish high school maths?

“The cessation deal explicitly excludes Islamic State and al-Nusra front against whom military action will continue.”

Oh, so all they have is agreed to do is gang up on the little blokes before they get back to fighting each other through proxies.

“Russia has not committed to end its airstrikes in Syria but repeated its insistence that it was targeting terrorist groups.”

And indeed the whole thing is bullshit since Russia has only promised to consider the vibe of the thing.

Gotta love it.