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US strategy of regime change in Syria has failed: Analyst

Foreign-backed militants drive a vehicle on the outskirts of Marea in the northern Syrian Aleppo district, September 1, 2015. (Photo by AFP)

Press TV has conducted an interview with Mark Sleboda, an international relations and security analyst, in Moscow, and Michael Lane, the president of the American Institute for Foreign Policy, in Washington, to discuss Russia’s military campaign against terrorists in Syria.

Sleboda says the US strategy of regime change in Syria has failed, adding that, the “US’s inability to create any real moderate forces to succeed in Syria shows the complete unreality of its strategy and program.”

The analyst says there has been a major shift in the US’s position in the Middle East due to its “inefficient” and “incompetent” efforts to fight the Takfiri Daesh terrorists in Syria and Iraq.

“The US perhaps intentionally is not seeking to defeat Daesh but rather manage it for its regime change goals in Syria,” he says.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Sleboda says the US began the war against Syria in an attempt to break up Iran-Iraq-Syria-Lebanon alliance.

“It is rather really ironic that instead of seeing a breakup, what we are actually seeing is a solidification, a cementing of an alliance between Iran, Iraq, Syria, Hezbollah and they now have a great power patron from outside the region – Russia. So this could be viewed as a major potential shift in the geopolitics of the region,” he says.

Lane, for his part, believes that US President Barack Obama’s inaction in Syria has created a perfect storm of opportunity for President Putin to move in and to re-establish Russia’s presence and influence throughout the entire region.


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