Video: Telegraph view: West takes a step closer to Syria intervention Speaking from Cairo, Richard Spencer said he believed that the shipment would fundamentally undermine Russia's firm stance against any form of Western intervention in Syria, as the 15-month long uprising against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad descends into civil war. "We're certainly a step further down the road to some form of Western intervention," he added, suggesting that no fly-zones and humanitarian corridors could be a matter of months away. In the meantime, he suggested that the West was likely to step up arms supplies to the rebels. "The British and the Americans are talking and indeed engaging with countries like Saudi Arabia and Qatar that are helping the rebels," the correspondent said. There are now more arms getting into Syria with American help and I think there will be a gradual increment, month-by-month, of that.