Putin recognizes the problem that Frau Merkel does not and made some statements about Assad being welcome in Exile in Russia
For Europe to be saved from the hordes, Assad must go so Syria can normalize and the refugees all be shipped back
the Sunni will be given the euphrates valley all the way back to near Baghdad. Kurdistan will be formalized.
That’s good of Putin to give Assad a place to live in safety if he needs to flee, guess it’ll be too bad for the Christians in that country though.
But no, Assad’s departure wont let Syria normalize, it will be a full on sunni jihadi nation. Call it ISIS, Al Nusra, Free Syrian Army, etc. It will be a brutal wahabbist dictatorship. It certainly wont be anything that the “refugees” will go home to.