This is scary.
Does it give you pause for thought Jim?
From an International Socialist site about Russian military intervention.http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/jun2012/rusy-j12.shtml



the secretary-general of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Nikolai Bordjusha, had held out the possibility of using "peacekeepers" in Syria. "The task in Syria is likely to be to impose peace—primarily against the insurgents, who use weapons to solve political problems."

Russia and China strongly oppose a military intervention by NATO in Syria, and have already blocked two UN resolutions on the issue.

On Monday last week, three Russian warships were sighted off the Syrian coast. An anonymous source from the Russian government told the Iranian newspaper Tehran Times that Moscow wants to show NATO that it will not allow any military operation against Damascus under the guise of a humanitarian mission.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev warned that a military intervention in Syria could quickly escalate and lead to the use of nuclear weapons.

The growing threat of war in the Middle East—and the fact that the European countries, including Germany and France, are siding with the United States—is increasingly driving Russia into a military alliance with China.