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The international community should treat this as a non-event. It's absolutely not changing the economic conditions on the ground. It's not changing the political conditions on the ground. Syrians are just as oppressed. They will be just as oppressed on Thursday as they are today. There's absolutely nothing that's changed or will change in their lives, the Assad regime and The Assad regime allies want to continue to affirm that they will not budge an inch despite everything the country has been through in the last ten years, despite the fact that they're trying to keep the country alive economically.