US risks nuclear war with Russia over Syria: American writer

An American writer and political analyst says if Hillary Clinton gets elected president of the United States, she will do the Empire's bidding and push toward war with Russia or China.

Patrick Daniel Welch told Press TV on Thursday that the United States will have to launch a nuclear war against Russia in order to impose what it is trying to achieve in Syria, where the US and its regional allies been fighting a proxy war against the government of President Bashar al-Assad since March 2001.

US Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday warned the Syrian president of the consequences of a new US approach if he does not accept a political transition in the next few months.

“The target date for the transition is 1st of August,” Kerry told reporters at the State Department. “So we're now coming up to May. So either something happens in these next few months, or they are asking for a very different track.”

'Assad must go mantra'

“This is the clearest indication yet that the US just cannot and will not change its tune. It’s like a one trick pony, or one note symphony,” said Welch.  

“It's the most bellicose--the most overtly bellicose--that they have been since the cease fire anyway. They are always coming back to this one thing, that Assad must go, the same tired mantra that they have been pushing for five years, since they decided to stage a coup in Syria,” he added.

“And the really ugly thing is that they just think they have the right to do this--the God-given right to march into other people's countries and overthrow their governments--especially if your country is full of brown people,” he stated. "It's an unbelievably racist and supremacist ideology that masquerades as American exceptionalism. It's an assault, really on the whole world." 

“And if they can't have what they want, then they will destroy your country. They don't care about elections. I mean look at this: they completely ignore the fact that there were elections in Syria. And there were just parliamentary elections as well. There is enormous support for Bashar al Assad,” the analyst noted.  

Syrians want Assad to lead them

“The people of Syria want Bashar al-Assad to lead them. This is completely clear, and open, and honest. And the Americans want to completely ignore that, along with their lackey vassal states in Europe, and they want to fund and arm and train a killing machine to get rid of someone they don't like,” Welch said.

“The sad part is that it gets worse. We're having an election now in the US. I mean who are the Americans to complain about anyone's elections when we have this absolutely awful system that couldn't even pass muster for an international monitoring group?” he noted.

US set to elect puppet

“But we're going to 'elect' another puppet. And if it's Clinton, of course, it's going to be much worse. There could not be a more eager and willing--I would say rabid--sock puppet for Empire,” Welch said.

“This woman has never met a war she didn't like, and is completely soulless and will do the bidding of Empire to push us toward war with Russia and/or China. That is who she is, and that is what the danger in this election process is,” he pointed out.

Assad and Russians won’t budge

“So coming back to Syria, it's a very serious situation. But of course the Russians are in partnership with the Syrian state and are protecting the government. They're already there. And John Kerry can whine all he wants, but they will have to risk nuclear war in order to impose what they are trying to do in Syria,” the commentator said.

“I think it's a lot of bluster, and I hope I'm right in thinking that they will pull back from this brinkmanship. But Assad and the Russians certainly aren't going to budge--why should they? So, if Clinton gets in there you could see all hell break lose. So let's hope for the best,” he said in his concluding remarks. 

Five-year-long proxy war 

The years-long conflict in Syria has left more than 470,000 Syrians dead and half of the country’s population of about 23 million displaced within or beyond the Arab country’s borders.

In September 2014, the US and some of its allies started conducting airstrikes inside Syria against Daesh terrorists, many of whom were initially trained by the CIA to fight against the Syrian government. However, observers say the attacks did little damage to the terrorists; rather, they targeted the country’s infrastructure.

Washington has also deployed dozens of special forces to eastern Syria in what it claims is an effort to shore up local militant groups against Daesh.

In September of last year, Russia launched its own air offensive against the terrorists who were still wreaking havoc in Syria. The Russian campaign, analysts say, has broken the backbone of ISIL and other militants, and has provided the Assad government an opportunity to defeat the foreign-sponsored terrorist onslaught.

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