Syria would be united If Bashar ran off to Moscow 15 years ago, instead of running off like a coward after everything else was destroyed. He didn't even have the decency to die fighting. A coward to the bitter end, you know he ordered his general and army to retreat from all fronts and come to damascus where they were supposed to fight and protect him, and then at the very end they refused, so instead of him fighting on his own or leading those who still wanted to fight, he fled to the coast, there he asked Russia to support a breakaway state, Russia seeing the writing on the wall said no, then he asked them to take him to Moscow, and he stuffed his suitcases with all his ill gotten wealth and ran, along with all the money he had stashed in Moscow bank accounts and property elsewhere.