US seeking to force Russia out of Middle East: Analyst
US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter’s “arrogant” statements about Russia’s push for peace in Syria underscores Washington’s intent to curb Russian influence in the Middle East, an American political analyst says.
“What I think the Secretary of Defense’s statements reflects is that the United States is intent upon frustrating Russia’s advances and successes in Syria, using whatever it will take to do,” Mark Glenn told Press TV on Friday.
Glenn, who is also with the Crescent and Cross Solidarity Movement, noted that Washington has a far greater plan for the Middle East than just simply removing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power.
Carter said Thursday that Russia’s military campaign against Daesh (ISIL) terrorists in Syria is “deeply mistaken and doomed to fail.”
The Pentagon chief added that Russia needs to “get on the right foot” and change its strategy in the Arab country, opting for a future in Syria where Assad is not in power.
Russia launched its campaign against terrorist groups in Syria in late September upon a request from Damascus.
“The Americans, working in collusion with the Israelis, working as far back as the mid-1960s, specifically 1967, to drive the Russians out of the Middle East permanently, so that the Americans would be the only superpower in the region,” Glenn added.
Glenn said the US was able to curb Russian influence in the region by prompting countries like Egypt and Jordan to cut ties with Moscow. “And the last stronghold, the last place where the Russians have any influence is of course Syria.”
“Americans are intent upon frustrating exactly what the Russians are doing in Syria; it was never America’ intention to deal with the problem of ISIL and all of the murder and mayhem that these groups have brought to Syria over the last four years.”
“It is an established fact now that the United States has been, not just a minor player, but the integral player in creating these groups and sustaining them and giving them everything that they need to go about in Syria and to wreak all of this havoc that they have.”
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