Syria war turning into defeat for US, Turkey, Saudi
US President Barack Obama is trying to “divert attention away from the US” when he says the raging conflict in Syria is “not a contest” between him and Russian President Vladimir Putin, an analyst says.
“The war in Syria is a US war and it is turning into another defeat for US imperialism and its junior partners,” Joe Iosbaker, an activist with the Anti-War Committee Chicago told Press TV on Wednesday. “When facing defeat imperialist powers can become desperate. It seems that Turkey and Saudi Arabia are at that point.”
Iosbaker noted that Ankara is specifically “desperate” because its supply lines to the Syrian City of Aleppo were recently cut by Syrian forces backed by Russia’s airstrikes.
“Turkey is concerned about their mercenaries in Aleppo… and the advances of the Kurdish forces.”
Ankara, which says it is fighting Daesh Takfiris in Syria, has been implicated as a major supporter of theirs since war began in the Muslim country.
“They hope to use the spread of ISIL as justification for direct military intervention,” Iosbaker said.
Saudi Arabia has also expressed willingness to work with Turkey in that regard.
Since 2011, Syria has been gripped by a deadly crisis that has claimed the lives of some 470,000 people and left 1.9 million injured, according to the Syrian Center for Policy Research.
Since September 30, 2015, Russia has been launching airstrikes against the positions of Daesh terrorists at the request of Damascus, a move that has apparently shifted the dynamics of the Syrian conflict in favor of the Syrian armed forces.
At a summit in California on Tuesday, Obama predicted that Syria would become a "quagmire" for Russia, but added, “This is not a contest between me and Putin.”
After days of negotiations in Munich, diplomats from a working group of 17 countries, including the US, Russia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Iran, agreed Thursday to establish a temporary "cessation of hostilities" in Syria within a week.
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