Russia Warns Against US Strikes On Assad Government

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Russia Warns Against US Strikes On Assad Government

Russia has warned against a call, made by officials in the US State Department, for strikes against the Syrian government.

The Kremlin said on Friday that Moscow is opposed to such military action and that it would plunge the entire region into complete chaos.

51 State Department officials signed an internal document calling for targeted military strikes against the Syrian government.

Press TV reports:

US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday that the internal memo on Syria signed by more than 50 US diplomats is an “important statement” that he would discuss when he gets back to Washington.

“It’s an important statement and I respect the process, very, very much. I will … have a chance to meet with people when I get back,” Kerry told Reuters during a visit in Copenhagen.

The memo is sharply critical of US policy in Syria, calling for military strikes against the Assad government.

An unnamed US official familiar with the document said the internal cable may be an attempt to shape the foreign policy outlook of the next US administration.

“It is not a secret to us that there are political forces in the US who favor a military solution [to the Syrian crisis]. But this is not our method,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Friday.

The United States and its allies have been conducting airstrikes against what are said to be Daesh terrorists inside Syria since September 2014 without any authorization from Damascus or a UN mandate.

The attacks have largely failed to fulfill their declared aim of destroying Daesh but killed civilians and targeted the Syrian infrastructure in many cases.

Washington has consistently refused to join forces with Russia in Syria against Daesh ever since Moscow launched its campaign of airstrikes in September last year.

On Thursday, a senior US defense official accused Russia of carrying out airstrikes in southern Syria against US-backed forces.

The accusation came a day after Kerry said the US was losing patience with Russia over its support for the Syrian government.

Kerry

“Russia needs to understand that our patience is not infinite. In fact it is very limited with whether or not al-Assad is going to be held accountable,” he said.

Responding to those remarks, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he believed the US might hope to use al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria to unseat President Assad’s government.

Lavrov said in St. Petersburg on Thursday that the reluctance of US-backed opposition groups to distance themselves from the Nusra Front has been a major reason behind continuing fighting.

The US could be “playing some kind of game here, and they may want to keep al-Nusra in some form and use it to topple the regime,” Lavrov said.

9 Comments

  1. I don’t care if Santa Clause signed on with the 50 diplomats for air strike of Syria, your all bunch of war mongering psychopaths.

  2. I don’t care if Santa Clause signed on with the 50 diplomats for air strike of Syria, your all bunch of war mongering psychopaths.

  3. 51 neocons, er, I mean ‘diplomats’ want to bomb Assad. Golly. What fresh approach. We’ve never tried that before.
    Perhaps Her Majesty will make it a coronation gift to her BFFs in Tel Aviv and Riyadh.

  4. 51 neocons, er, I mean ‘diplomats’ want to bomb Assad. Golly. What fresh approach. We’ve never tried that before.
    Perhaps Her Majesty will make it a coronation gift to her BFFs in Tel Aviv and Riyadh.

  5. Back them out of there Mr Putin. Cheney, and his warmongers want to steal their. Oil. Along with nut-in-ya-ho Rupert Murdoch. Evil rot-child.

  6. Back them out of there Mr Putin. Cheney, and his warmongers want to steal their. Oil. Along with nut-in-ya-ho Rupert Murdoch. Evil rot-child.

  7. Why is it that every time I read what US/Brittan and associated so called officials and diplomats speak I feel bilious and sick to the stomach; I suppose poison does that to you. I suppose most decent people who value life, freedom, peace and prosperity for all are highly allergic to lies, bull, warmongering threats and and &^$^*^%^.

  8. Why is it that every time I read what US/Brittan and associated so called officials and diplomats speak I feel bilious and sick to the stomach; I suppose poison does that to you. I suppose most decent people who value life, freedom, peace and prosperity for all are highly allergic to lies, bull, warmongering threats and and &^$^*^%^.

  9. Nkgoo, geniş kapsamlı bilgi platformudur. Her konuda bilgi içeriği üretme amacıyla yayın hayatına başlamış referans kaynak sitedir. Ayrıca telif hakları konularına da özen gösterilmektedir.

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