US/Israel New Strategy For Syria: Simply Destroy It

 US Bombing Syrian Army Would Start World War III

After the US government suspended cooperation with Russia in Syria earlier this week, military action by the White House against Damascus was back on the table.

A US fighter, who is fighting alongside with Syria Democratic Forces (SDF), carries his national flag as he stands with SDF fighters in northern province of Raqqa, Syria May 27, 2016 

 

Syrian journalist and political analyst Kevork Almassian told Radio Sputnik's Brian Becker that a US announcement that it would halt coordination with Russia is "misleading," as there was no genuine cooperation in the first place, given the parties' contradicting approaches to ending the Syrian civil war. 

 

 According to Almassian, Washington was likely not interested in preventing violence in Aleppo, as it is satisfied with the status quo and supports the al-Nusra Front — an al-Qaeda-linked violent jihadist group — while the Russians and Syrians are determined to liberate the city at any cost. 

 

"The Americans were forced, I believe, to halt this cooperation because they feel that they are embarrassed in front of their allies at least in the Middle East, and they're also embarrassed that their strategy is not working in Syria," Almassian said during the Loud & Clear broadcast. Political writer Diana Johnstone, participating in the program, agreed with Almassian, saying that the US has all along had the single objective of eliminating the independent Arab nationalist government in Syria and putting a US-controlled puppet in its in place. 

 

That plan, she said, has failed, and now the new strategy is "simply to destroy Syria." Keeping the war going is in the interests of the US and its allies in the region, namely Israel and Saudi Arabia, she said. "These powers have joined together to destroy the legitimate state of Syria, and that's what this is all about," Johnstone told Radio Sputnik.

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