Which should not surprise anyone since autocratic rule and repressive habits, much like any other addictive ones, take time to flush out of any society’s system; and, both of these members still have a way to go before they can claim success with their respective rehab programs.

With Russia, especially, Mr. Putin’s “puta-ismo” style of ruling is still operating in a red underwear-wearing grizzly mode and facing growing opposition and near open revolt against it because of that. And now, facing another election process just around the corner, it’s not about to show any sign of weakness by going along with sanctions against a bloody minded regime, like Assad’s. That’s just too close for comfort. So playing a veto wild card is the easiest way out from a tricky damned if you do and damned if you don’t situation.

Besides which, grizzlies have never been famous for either couth or style, except perhaps in ….ballet.
As for China’s veto, it’s another example of how its former commissariat mob has morphed itself into a kleptocratic smiley two-faced dragon, but, with both couth and style as smooth as any of its silks, its travelling Shun Yen fantasy show being one of the silkiest. Frankly, why it would want to now display any kind of affinity or support for the likes of the Assad regime (given its strenuous PR efforts to dim collective memories of its own actions such as Tibet, Tien Anmen, and Falun Gong) is hard to fathom, since showing any kind of support for it at this juncture offers no PR benefits for itself. So, perhaps, the reason for its wild card veto was just an obstructionist exercise to remind everyone, especially America, that there’s a new player at the geopolitical poker table, and its name is – China.

Meanwhile, while all these high roller players at that table play out their fun and games with each other, modest little Tunisia has, once again, taken the initiative with honor and integrity, to show everyone else how to live up to commitments for civilized standards of behavior. Unilaterally, it has simply severed diplomatic recognition and relations with the Assad regime. Bravo Tunisia! Now, if all the rest of the UN General membership has the balls and the integrity to follow its lead, both Russia’s and China’s vetoes won’t mean squat, and the diplomatic eunuchs of the Security Council can go on just….sucking eggs.