Operation Ostrava: Month 16, Week 3, Day 1.

At around 15:00 today (21/6/12) I simply ground to a halt. I decided that I didn't have the energy to clean the bathroom and certainly didn't have the energy to write an update or Syria because quite frankly it's all too depressing. With the United Nations Supervision Mission In Syria (UNSMIS) observers remaining confined to their barracks fighting has raged throughout most of Syria's main population centres with the daily death toll averaging between 70 and 100 people killed.

One area I should cover though is that Britain has let it be known that during the G20 Summit Russia agreed to allow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad avoid prosecution for those alleged war crimes that Britain can't actually prove provided he steps down and allows for a gradual regime change modeled on what has become known as the "Yemen Process." Russia have denied this. However even if they were to agree to it it wouldn't work for two main reasons;

• As the May 21st 2012 (21/5/12) suicide bombing at a military dress rehearsal demonstrates the Yemen process isn't even working in Yemen.

• Saudi Arabia's insistence on President Saleh stepping aside had absolutely nothing to do with Yemen. Instead it was all about the political situation in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is a nation of around 25 million people so it is far to late a night for me to explain the political situation there fully. However if you want to educate yourself the 2007 Peter Berg film "The Kingdom" is a good place to start. The reason that Britain wants Syria to follow the Yemen process is to allow the Saudi Royal Family to gain a detailed explanation of exactly what the USA's opinion of Yemen is on a day to day basis. Quite why the USA wants Syria to follow the Yemen process is a mystery to me but it smells a bit Protestant.

If wish they'd hurry up and stop because I really want to get started on the Russians. As for the high-level defection of a Syrian Air-Force Colonel to Jordan I'm staying out of that because it sounds like a big boys game to me.