Both Moscow and the Arab League, which is expected to pass a resolution in Cairo next Wednesday, expressing opposition to outside intervention.
Even in the US, doubts about the viability of no-fly zones were beginning to surface, notably in testimony given in a Capitol Hill hearing by General James Mattis, commander of US Central Command. „My military opinion is that it would be challenging,“ he warned members of the Senate. „You would have to remove air defence capability in order to establish a no-fly zone, so no illusions here. It would be a military operations – it wouldn‘t be just telling people not to fly airplanes.“