Well, then your next paragraph is a contradiction.
No, because what I have described are two points, were the Russian action has already changed a lot. But there are, of course, also some other problems, namely, a lot of terrorists, occupying a lot of territory of the state, and supported by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the US. These problems I have not mentioned, and to solve them needs a lot of time.
Now you are saying the major reason for fleeing Syria has vanished. So which is it?
One or two reasons disappeared. There are others, namely the civil war and the terrorists.
Additionally, the people fleeing Syria aren't just Christian or Alawites. There are Muslim too and probably overwhelmingly Muslim, given 74% of the country's residents are Sunni Muslims.
Alawites are also Muslims. Anyway, it was not my claim that all reasons to emigrate have disappeared. But a few of them have.
Except, that really wasn't on the table and Russia's presence doesn't take it off the table.
Of course, for a believer of NATO propaganda it wasn't on the table, because no NATO propaganda media has written about this. The information that this was on the table, and the negotiations about this have been already close to a decision to start this, I have found on a, for you, completely unreliable internet source. So, forget about this.
As previously pointed out to you, Mother Russia has been forced into selling military hardware to China which it had previously refused to sell. The Sino-Russian border conflict was settled in China's favor.
LOL, the Russian military-industrial complex whines because it has to work now for the Chinese. And the border conflict was anyway about nothing, some islands in a river, so I will not even check if you, as usual, lie about this.
Russia was forced to agree to constructing new oil wells and pipelines for China's exclusive use.
Yea, horrible exclusive for little China. Even more horrible, Germany has forced Gazprom to build Northstream II, again through the baltic sea, exclusive for German use, poor Poland, Balticum and Ukraine get nothing.
China's military is larger and more modern than Russia's.
YMMD.
Oh, then what did you mean when you said you know "Ricardo's theorem" and how is that relevant.
I mean his theorems about comparative advantage,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage which proves false most of the classical arguments of various politicians for isolation, protective tariffs and so on, against free trade. Which is, of course, relevant once the discussion was about usefulness and harm caused by economic sanctions.
As for what "Putin tells", I have provided supporting evidence. Don't you remember? You dismissed it as NATO propaganda.
Of course, because NATO press is known to distort translations to make them sound like it fits into their propaganda. I have seen such an example myself, with a speech of Yanukovitsch, which was translated - and consistently, I have checked, by many different, German as well as English, NATO papers - as if he would oppose the occupation of Crimea, which was completely off. What he has really said was that he was disturbed by the decision of the people of Crimea to leave the Ukraine, but he understands why they have made this decision.
So, sorry, but NATO sources have to be rejected as unreliable. Which is not a problem, because you always have the original speeches, find them on youtube, almost all important speeches you can find there, link them, find accurate transcripts, reliable translations, and quote them.
About the agreement between Janukowitsch and the opposition at the 21. February
http://www.msz.gov.pl/resource/1c430b04-742e-4e3f-83be-a675d3ba2d7d:JCR
You do realize the above agreement you referenced was signed after Russia had illegally invaded, occupied and annexed portions of Ukraine (e.g. Crimea) and after Western sanctions had been placed on Mother Russia and at the time the agreement was signed, Mother Russia was under threat of further Western sanctions if it didn't cease its aggression in Eastern Ukraine.
No. Because, as you can see in the text, it was signed 21. February 2014. You have, obviously, no information about history, else you would know that this was the last day Yanukowitsch was in power, the next day, 22. February, there was the coup in Kiew and Yanukowitsch had to flee for his live. During the next week, the people in Crimea took power, and the parliaments elected new, secessionist, leaders, and only 28. February there were the first sights of the polite guys from the Russian speznas. The referendum was only later, and the civil war even much later. So, learn history.
Oh, and how do you know he didn't follow Russia orders? The fact is he and his fellow FSB officers and Russian citizens led the so called Ukrainian rebels. In an interview he said he "is" not "was" an FSB officer.
And even your (BTW extremely unreliable) source does not hide the fact that he worked for FSB only up to March 2013, thus, was already on pension over a year. Even your english wiki claims only "Ukrainian authorities have called him a
retired colonel of the
GRU".
How I know that he did not follow? Because I have followed the news at the time when he resigned. There was a lot of speculation in the Novorossian media about this, and the consensus was that it was the Kreml which forced him to resign.
The fact is the leader of the so called Ukrainian "rebels" were Russian citizens and state security officers. If this were an organic and true rebellion one would think Eastern Ukrainians would be led by Eastern Ukrainians rather than Russians.
The problem is that "Eastern Ukrainians" and "Russians" are in no way different nations. The differences between Eastern Ukrainian and Western Ukrainian people are much greater than those between Eastern Ukrainians and Russians. I know this, from personal experience, lived in Charkow as well as Odessa some time, played soccer with the local guys, these are Russian people, with a tendency to use h instead of g, that's all the difference, I would guess the difference between Northerners and Southerners in the US are greater. So, if there is a border between different nations, than this is not the Ukrainian border, but the border between Novorossia and the remaining part of the Ukraine.
And so it is quite natural that Russians volunteers helped them. And, of course, Russians are not Germans, they don't care about international law if Russians in the Ukraine need help, in a situation where the border was nothing more than a green line, non-existent outside the checkpoints on the big roads.
But I suppose not to unexpected.