Russia’s policy in Syria not “recipe for disaster”

By Vestnik Kavkaza
Russia’s policy in Syria not “recipe for disaster”

One of the main topics for discussion at the G20 summit which will be held on November 15-16 in Antalya will be the situation in Syria and the struggle against the terrorist group Islamic State. The G20 is a club of governments and heads of central banks of the states with the most developed and rapidly developing economies; but this year the summit will be a platform for discussion of political and military problems due to their topical character.

Today Western countries associate the normalization of the situation in Syria with President Bashar al-Assad's resignation. Moscow has a different vision. Igor Morozov, Member of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs, thinks that “when at all the political and diplomatic levels it was announced that Assad must leave, this personification of the problem of the fight against international terrorism, fixated on Assad, has produced a very serious failure. The main problem in Syria is not Assad, but international terrorism. Islamic State, which recently expanded its territory, actually created a quasi-state with its own municipal government, with social benefits, salaries and so on, and was able to create its own ideology, which is attractive for youth with radical views.”

According to Morozov, over the past two years ISIS has been replenished by human resources. “The arms and ammunition which our pilots determined as their target, they received it from various sources, but including from the so-called Syrian moderate opposition, which was trained in camps in Jordan and Turkey with money from the United States. They set the objective of creating a paramilitary unit from the moderate opposition, and using it to fight ISIS. But, unfortunately, this program failed. This was stated at the report of the military in front of the US Congress. And as a result, Russia was forced to be more responsive to the emerging, very complex international situation in the Middle East. In fact, we received a geopolitical conflict, which can be adjusted only by uniting into one powerful coalition, pursuing the same goal – the destruction of international terrorism.”

Morozov says that, unfortunately, the military success of the Russian Air Forces which allowed Syrian forces to reverse the military-strategic confrontation, has been subjected to powerful attacks by the Western media: “And we felt this attack from the highest officials of the USA and Great Britain. And Obama thought that we offered a recipe for disaster, which will drag us into the quagmire.” But a month and a half has passed, and no disaster happened, according to Morozov.

“We learned how to interact with the ground forces of the Syrian government troops. We were able to convince the Syrian moderate opposition, especially the Free Syrian Army, together with the Kurdish militia, to interact with the army. And today they provide information, including to our pilots. We have a common understanding of who is the enemy in Syria. And that is why those tactical and strategic battles, which are taking place in all directions in the territory of Syria, are a large, and already serious regional scenario for a real fight against international terrorism,” the senator is sure.

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