yes the protests were indeed western backed agitators
1.) A former CIA agent is quoted by the ACLU in a 2005 report as saying that if you wanted someone to be tortured, you send them to Syria. Why would the west want to disrupt the status quo? They don't want more religious Sunni Muslims in government as Algeria (early '90's), Palestine ('06), and Egypt ('13) have shown. Syria is no different even if it means letting the Sunnis be killed in a genocide.
2.) Obama sure is doing a horrendous job opposing the genocidal regime and supporting the rebels if that's what you think he's been trying to do. He set a red line in Syria and barely even blinked when Assad crossed it. As a country that ratified the genocide convention, we should have responded to the genocide. Yet we haven't. Not only does he place more onus on the rebels, the only ones he has intentionally targeted in Syria have been ISIS (for good reason) and the rebels (for terrible reasons) even though the regime is behind the most death (96% of civilian deaths) and destruction in Syria.
Obama even made a "ceasefire" deal with Russia that it would coordinate strikes on the rebels with it (but the rebels have to stop any advancements). Like....what?
The regime/allies have done everything wrong from targeting aid convoys; raping; torturing; dropping barrel bombs, cluster munitions, chemical weapons (like sarin and chlorine, the latter of which is still used) on civilian populations, napalm and incendiary weapons, intentionally targeting them (in masjids, refugee camps, schools, marketplaces, ambulances, hospitals, residential areas); starving civilians to the extent that more than 700 have died because of his sieges; committing sectarian massacres even if it means slitting the throats of Sunni children one by one; and ethnically cleansing areas.
This genocide is possibly the most well-documented in real-time yet we still have people like you defending it.
3.) The majority of Sunni Syrians are fighting for their freedom and justice. If that ever falls in line with what the west wants, then so be it and the more the merrier. Why should they sacrifice their dignity because some alt leftists think that anything America is bad?
Secondly Assad would not have been toppled as half the population likes him,
lol, that explains why he needs Russia, Iran, Hezbollah (Lebanon), and Iraqi, Pakistani, and Afghan militias to directly fight for him (and comprise most of his "Syrian Arab" army). His side has vastly superior weapons and air power (his own and Russia which greatly strengthened him) and an unlimited supply of Shia foreign fighters and still cannot defeat the opposition. He has used chemical weapons, starvation, and has pummeled Sunni areas to the ground, and still he has not won after 5 years.
the half who are native indigenous not the new comers called sunnis.
You're confused if you call the Lebanese, Iranians, Afghans, Pakistanis, and Iraqis there to keep Assad propped up Sunnis. They're actually Shias and they do most of the fighting on the ground on behalf of Assad.
Russia has only been involved in Syria less than a year, the west has been arming "moderates" for 5 years
Russia has been supplying the "secularist" "anti-imperialist" "moral" "protector of minorities" genocidal dictator before October 2015. It offered an alternative to punishing Assad after he crossed the red line by saying he'll get rid of his chemical weapons (surprise, he's still using them). Russia blocked the UN from moving Syria to the ICC in 2014. What's he so afraid of, if Assad (and Russia) are as innocent as you claim. Clearly Russia does not care about the peace process what with its indiscriminate bombings of civilians, which was its excuse before.
