Blix: Even if Assad used chemical weapons, the west has no mandate to act as a global policeman

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1. He has some points there

Then again, if some nation were to gas a minority, and the international community includes states like Russia and China that don't give a damn - what is to be done?

And the nukes can't really be used, not unless all nuclear powers were on the same page, in which case, it makes them global policemen, which is actually a good thing if they limit themselves to that and not just out and out colonization of non-nuclear powers.

This is one of the benefits of the world "losing" the USSR. The nuke club doesn't include states with PTB that are so lacking in morality they don't condemn attacks like this.