US strategy is to 'partition Syria' and install a puppet regime
The United States’ long-term strategy is to partition Syria and install a government similar to the repressive regime of Saudi Arabia, says a political activist in New York.
“What the US is trying to do ultimately is partition Syria and bring about the type of regime that exists in Saudi Arabia where you have extreme repression and just a complete dictatorial state,” Seth Rutledge said in an interview with Press TV on Sunday.
US Secretary of State John Kerry and Saudi Arabia’s King Salman pledged Friday to further boost the militants operating in Syria while stressing the need for a “transition away” from President Bashar al-Assad.
“It just seems so absurd to me that anyone can believe this: moderate rebels coming out of Saudi Arabia, who have decade-long history of supporting Salafists, the most extreme elements in the region,” Rutledge said.
The notion of “moderate” militants is just a myth, he noted.
Before meeting King Salman, Kerry accused President Assad of standing in the way of peace efforts in Syria.
“One thing stands in the way of being able to rapidly move to implement that, and it's a person called Assad - Bashar Assad,” he said during a meeting in Vienna on Friday with his Russian, Turkish, and Saudi counterparts.
Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir warned late last month that Assad must leave office or face being removed militarily.
Syria has been gripped by foreign-backed militancy since March 2011. The crisis has claimed the lives of more than 250,000 people so far and displaced millions of others.
“What we are seeing here is really the destruction of a state and the destruction of the region,” Rutledge said.
The US-Saudi Arabia intervention is having a “snowball effect” in the region where the displaced populations are subjected to recruiting efforts as “mercenaries,” he explained.
“Once they are hired and they are out in the battlefield… they change sides, they bring their weapons, bring their trainings to ISIS [Daesh] and al-Qaeda,” he stated.
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