 If you have a patron on the Security Council in particular, you could get protection for years of war crimes. That would be Russia? And that would be Russia in this case, not always Russia, but in this case, certainly Russia. And essentially be able to shift your status over time from pariah to acceptable state player. Yeah, and by 2018, Assad and his allies start to reclaim a lot of the territory that was previously lost to the armed opposition and other groups.