Russia skeptical of US intentions in Syria: Analyst
As Moscow explores a “real political solution” to the crisis in Syria, it is also growing more suspicious of Washington’s intentions in the Arab country, an American political analyst says.
“Russia is also looking for a political cooperation so that the United States, instead of fermenting civil war in Syria, can agree to a real political negotiation, a real political settlement,” that includes a wide range of options to end the crisis, Brian Becker told Press TV on Wednesday.
“I believe that the Russian government is still hopeful but increasingly skeptical that the Obama administration will join them in that effort,” he added.
Becker who is a member of the A.N.S.W.E.R Coalition maintained that the Russian solution is not at all similar to the American one which “in the beginning presupposes, as the US has insisted, that [Syrian President Bashar] Assad must go.”
“In fact Russia will insist that all of the Syrian parties who are not engaged in terrorist activity be allowed to participate, including the Ba’ath Party and including the Assad government in developing any negotiated political settlement that allows Syria to transition from this devastating civil war to a return to the political normalcy,” the analyst noted.
Russia and the United States officially signed a coordination memorandum on Tuesday which is supposed to regulate the two countries' aircraft and drone flights over Syria.
According to the agreement, Russian and American military commanders will be constantly in contact with each other to coordinate the memorandum’s implementation.
The two sides are running parallel campaigns of airstrikes against the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group’s positions inside the Arab country and are yet to agree on a joint operation.
Becker told Press TV that he thinks Russia “is disappointed that the agreement is so limited and so purely technical.”
“What Russia is looking for is cooperation with the United States, militarily and politically, in Syria in order to defeat ISIL and al-Qaeda and the other armed terrorist groups that are threatening and have been fighting to topple the Assad government for the past four years.”
In his trip to Russia, on Wednesday, Syrian President Assad informed Russian President Vladimir Putin about the plans of government forces in the fight against terrorists in the Middle Eastern country.
Becker believed both Putin and Assad are of the idea “that the defeat of the terrorists in Syria, is the precondition for the beginning of a political transition in Syria.”
Russia began its military campaign against terrorists in Syria on September 30 upon a request from the Damascus government, shortly after the upper house of the Russian parliament gave Putin the mandate to use military force in Syria.
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