4 Things You Need to Know About The U.S.-Russia Agreement

Up to Speed: 4 Things You Need to Know About the U.S.-Russia Agreement -- Eli Lake, Daily Beast

So the United States and Russia reached a breakthrough agreement on Saturday. But will it work—and avert U.S. military action in Syria? From the plan’s ambitious scope to the potential for Obama humiliation, Eli Lake on the key points.

In the coming days, the Syrian government is supposed to provide an accounting to the United Nations of its chemical weapons program. The declaration expected from Syria is spelled out in a four-page framework agreement forged Saturday by the United States and Russia in Geneva. That document may present President Obama with a way to solve the most pressing national security crisis of his second term without taking military action that most American citizens and members of Congress oppose. Will it work? Here are four things you need to know about the proposed deal.

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