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https://i0.wp.com/www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/GettyImages-867897448-e1519320259253.jpg?fit=3000%2C1297&ssl=130001297Chemical weapons attacks, aerial bombardments, malnutrition, sexual violence and other means of torture define Syria, with a new massive atrocity every few weeks. There is no end in sight, and Russian support for Assad has been the common thread through seven years of horror. The solution lies in convincing Putin that his support for Assad will wreak consequences so unpalatable that his cost-benefit analysis shifts.