Maybe Russia wanted to know where this stuff was. They have a terrorist problem also. This is just so major. Kerry is going to look like the idiot he is.
"Kerry is going to look like the idiot he is."
If you substituted Putin for Kerry, the above sentence works just as well.
You nailed it!
" Kerry is going to look like the idiot he is."
- By tomorrow, the Russians will have denied the story leaving us back at square one. After that, the only way to advance the story would be for the Pentagon to release the satellite photo's of the trucks at the compound going toward Syria. But it will be impossible to prove that they were driven by Russians. I don't see that part of the story going anywhere, short of an admission by Putin that it is true, which is not likely.
That's Putin's best play. "Yes, we removed these explosives. They are in a safe place. We did not want them in the hands of unreliable persons during the confusion of the war."