Conventional war by Daesh has failed: Analyst

Press TV has interviewed E. Michael Jones, an editor with the Culture Wars Online Magazine, about the fight against the Takfiri Daesh terrorists in Syria and Iraq.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: This fight against terrorism in Iraq and Syria continues with liberations continuing in both countries. How do you feel about where it stands right now?

Jones: Well, I think what you’re seeing is the trajectory of a failed insurrection. It began as a guerrilla war. At a certain point, they had enough material to wage conventional war and now I think that that conventional war has failed. It has failed and so, what I think you’re going to see here is that the forces are going to disappear back into the population, back into where they were when it was a guerrilla war four years ago.

And I think that what we’re going to see here is that the front on the war is now going to be moved into Europe. I think what you saw on Belgium was the counter-attack against the West by these Daesh, ISIS, forces.

I think you’re also going to see basically the Europeans trying to buy off the Turks at this point. They’ve offered to the Turks six billion dollars to keep the refugees in Turkey, to keep them from crossing the Aegean. And now, it looks as if Greece is trying to broker a similar type of deal, in other words to cut off the refugee flow.

But I think this is where the front is going to move now, now that the military offensive is failing.

Press TV: Mr. Jones, when you read the Western media, both armies, be it the Syrian or Iraqi army, and those helping them, be it the Russians or the popular forces, they are seen as the villains there, they’re quite strongly criticized, even though they are the ones who are successfully fighting these terrorists. Why is that do you think?

Jones: Because the United States backed these people and wanted to overthrow Assad, and now it clearly has failed. That offensive has failed and so the United States is going to have to find Plan B or go to Plan B, which I’ve heard is going to be the breakup of Syria into a balkanization, into ethnic states, but that doesn’t change the fact that, according to the US media, the Russians are still the Russians are the villains in this scenario.

Press TV: Indeed and when we look at Iraq obviously, the liberation of Mosul would be a big win for the Iraqis obviously, but even when it comes to that, the popular forces are quite strongly criticized even though they’re the one who are on the frontline. And many people say that the US has a role which actually helps the terrorists again in Iraq. How do you feel about that?

Jones: Yeah, well they did. I mean basically the ISIS was created first of all by the bungling of Paul Bremer, when he basically de-Baathified the entire Iraqi army and created a guerrilla insurgency. That guerrilla insurgency then gained power and became a conventional army and at this point, the United States had to... if they wanted to win, they had to put a no-fly zone over Syria. They didn’t do it. They backed away. Russia and now the conventional war is lost. But that doesn’t change the fact that this is part of the big orchestrated attempt to rein in Asia by basically breaking Russia.

The simultaneous war — economic war — going on here at the same time was the oil price war, where they got Saudis to pump more oil to try to bankrupt Russia by driving down oil prices.

So, this is one front on that big war against Russia over who’s going to control Asia and that hasn’t changed.

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