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US using demonizing tactics against Syria, Russia: Columnist

Friday, 07 October 2016 11:29 AM [ Last Update: Friday, 07 October 2016 11:32 AM ]

Syrians inspect the damage caused by an artillery attack in the al-Jamiliyeh neighborhood in the government-controlled side of Aleppo on October 6, 2016. (Photo by AFP)

The United States has resorted to the tactic of demonizing Syrian and Russian forces in the face of their advancements against terrorists, a prominent US-based journalist says.

“The US has been doing the typical demonizing of the Russian and Syrian air force” by claiming they were bombing hospitals and civilian areas, Jim W. Dean, managing editor of the Veterans Today online journal told Press TV on Friday.

Such allegations have been ruled out as mere fabrications, he said, adding the tactics are used by the US as a method “to prepare people for a future strike.”

That is because US officials are seeing their proxy war by the help of mercenaries in Aleppo doomed to failure, Dean added.

He touched upon the role of other players in pushing the US to a direct confrontation, saying Washington is facing a lot of pressure from its Persian Gulf allies not to let Syrian efforts in Aleppo bear fruit.

Dean said as a result of recent defeats suffered by US-backed terrorists in different part of Syria, Washington decided to carry out airstrikes against Syrian army positions.

A US air raid on Syrian army positions near Dayr al-Zawr killed 83 Syrian soldiers on Sept. 17, with Moscow and Damascus both rejecting the US explanation that the attack was a mistake.

Dean said the United States was seeking to push Russia into a hard situation to shoot down a civilian airliner by mistake to let Washington use such an incident as a pretext to create bad publicity against Moscow.

American authorities, he said, are trying to prevent a potential liberation of eastern Aleppo, because that would seal the fate of the war and the mercenaries.

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