real talk: assad should have stepped down when it became clear that the us would sanction syria forever as long as he was still there. his remaining as president was not benefiting the country and he refused to take the necessary reforms or steps to reconcile the country with the world and fix the economy, instead letting syrians become more and more impoverished while iran pretty much took over the country and he let it happen. he tied his own fate to iran and hezbollah and when hezbollah went down, he went with them. he let his country reach the point where what happened was inevitable
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