Turkish troops have been training Sunni tribal combatants at an Iraqi camp north-east of Mosul, but a spokesman for the Shia militias said earlier on Saturday the Turks were in no position to obstruct their advance.
There were complaints, too, that Serbs turned out to vote merely because they wanted to be part of the assembly and therefore in position to obstruct its work and deny any Albanian push for independence.
That was important because conservative Northern Democrats, many of whom had sympathized with the Confederacy, were in a position to obstruct or deny repayment on the full value of the public debt by paying creditors in depreciated paper money, or "greenbacks".
It was later reported that the warrants were related to a new Supreme Court inquiry into whether Cunha had abused his position to obstruct the vast corruption probe.
This meant that the caucus had a much stronger position to obstruct legislation by withholding it votes, since 76 votes were necessary for legislation to pass.
In practice, therefore, anyone who is in a position to obstruct the US push for a new sanctions resolution has a tremendous degree of leverage over the United States right now.
