Russia will not tolerate ouster of Syria’s Assad: Analyst
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s criticism of US strategy in Syria indicates that Moscow does not tolerate US plans to oust President Bashar al-Assad, says an American analyst.
“What I see in Putin’s statements is his willingness to challenge the president of the United States to cease behaving illegally,” Paul Craig Roberts, a former assistant secretary of the US Treasury, told Press TV on Sunday.
Roberts made the comments in reaction to Vladimir Putin’s remarks on Sunday in which he denounced Washington’s support for militants in Syria as illegal and ineffective.
“Providing military support to illegal structures runs counter to the principles of modern international law and the United Nations Charter," the Russian leader said.
Roberts noted that Washington and Moscow are pursuing two different agendas in Syria. “Russia stands for international law, the United States stands for its will, its hegemony and its independence from international law.”
“The United States has a policy of destabilizing any country that has an independent foreign policy,” he added.
“Washington has destroyed, more or less, seven countries in the past 14 years,” through “illegal and unjustified” wars and therefore any opposition from countries like Russia and China is welcome, the analyst maintained.
President Assad has a foreign policy that is “independent of Washington” and that is why Syria has become a target, he said.
“The Russians are making it more and more clear that they are not going to tolerate it,” Roberts said of the US strategy.
US President Barack Obama and Putin are set to meet on Monday after the Russian president’s much-anticipated speech at the 70th UN General Assembly in New York, 10 years after his last speech at the annual event.
According to the Kremlin, Syria will be topping the agenda of the meeting between the two leaders.
The US has been conducting a $500 million program to train and arm militants purportedly to take on the Daesh terrorists in Syria.
However, according to US military officials, the program has essentially been a failure as it has produced only “a handful” of militants so far.
Russia, meanwhile, is beefing up its military presence in Syria.
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