Imagine, somebody who never asked the US to enter his country now wants them out. From Tyler Durden at zerohedge.com:
Even the Washington Post now admits that Assad is “here to stay” —“The writing is now indisputably on the wall: The Syrian regime is going nowhere.”
In a newly published wide ranging sit-down interview with RT journalist Murad Gazdiev in Damascus, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad revealed his perspective of major recent events which have prolonged the war and taken it to new dangerous levels of escalation, including the Douma chemical attack claims in April and Russia’s thwarting the West’s objective of regime change.
“They told a story, they told a lie, and the public opinion around the world and in the West didn’t buy their story, but they couldn’t withdraw. So, they had to do something, even on a smaller scale,” Assad said of the April 14th massive airstrikes on Syria carried out by the US, UK, France, and Israel after videos purporting to show victims of a chlorine gas attack were released by the Saudi-financed Jaish al-Islam and the White Helmets.
Assad appeared to be indirectly referencing the stream of skeptical reporting which began emerging once Western correspondents physically entered the attack site for the first time, notably veteran Middle East reporter Robert Fisk among them, who stunned his British and world audience in concluding, “they were not gassed.” There were also skeptical television reports in American and European media by journalists walking around Douma.
Of Douma in particular, supposedly gassed by the Syrian Army in the very moments it stood poised to liberate the last 5% of East Ghouta, Assad questioned, “Is it in our interest? Why, and why now?” Assad noted that each time his forces were closest to achieving overwhelming battlefield victory, a major and inexplicable provocation happened to sway international opinion.
He said further that despite continued US interference, especially in Syria’s northeast, Damascus has nearly won the seven-year war with Russian military support, which thwarted Western attempts of an Iraq-style military intervention: “With every move forward for the Syrian Army, and for the political process, and for the whole situation, our enemies and our opponents, mainly the West led by the United States and their puppets in Europe and in our region, they try to make it farther – either by supporting more terrorism, bringing more terrorists to Syria, or by hindering the political process,” Assad told RT.
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