It’s time to turn up the heat on Bashar Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Syria. The Syrian dictator faces economic implosion, and Putin can no longer afford to sustain the Syrian regime.

Those two men are most responsible for the catastrophe that is Syria in 2020. It’s a land where 500,000 people have died since Assad starting massacring his people in 2011. Applied to Syria’s 2011 population, that means 2.4% of Syria’s population has been lost. Think about the scale of that misery. Applied to the U.S. population, that percentage would mean more than 80 times the number of U.S. citizens having died of the coronavirus than is currently the case.