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Russians defeated US in Syria standoff: Analyst

Wednesday, 16 March 2016 7:20 PM [ Last Update: Thursday, 17 March 2016 6:40 AM ]

By its military pullout from Syria, Russia is telling the world that it has won the standoff with the US over the years-long conflict, says Welch.

Russia’s military withdrawal from Syria signals Moscow’s victory over Washington in dealing with the Syrian conflict, proving it is possible to maintain peace in other countries without occupying them, says an American political analyst.

Daniel Patrick Welch, a Boston-based political commentator, made the remarks on Wednesday when referring to US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland’s remarks the day before.

Nuland said Tuesday Russia's pullout of military forces from Syria will not lead to a removal of US sanctions against Russia and Washington will continue to maintain the economic pressure on Moscow, until it fully withdraws forces and military equipment from the Ukrainian border.

This “is just typical of the arrogance and intransigence of the US government,” Daniel Patrick Welch told Press TV on Wednesday. The United States and its European allies accuse Russia of destabilizing Ukraine, a pretext based on which a series of economic sanctions have been imposed on Russia.

“They think they can just throw around these sanctions and this muscle against other states when the blood on their hands is so thick and so deep,” he added.

He said it was Nuland who was basically “the principle” in orchestrating a political coup in Ukraine, who as a part of the US State Department, has also been leading attempts to force regime change in countries like Syria through “the implementation of the US death squads policy.”

The analyst added that such ideologies as that of Nuland are prevalent in both major US political parties, which means any future US government would advocate similar policies.

“Whatever they can do to maintain that hegemony,” he continued. “There is no chance that someone else who sits in the Oval Office is going to have a different perspective.”

Elsewhere in his remarks, Welch suggested that Russia has already won the standoff with the US over Syria.

“It is a chess move, of course; but it is a chess move designed not to please Western hegemon but to announce to the rest of the world that ‘look we can stop this regime change juggernaut, but we don’t have to occupy and destroy countries for decades in order to do that,’” Welch further explained.

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