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Meeting with Donald Trump would be pointless because the deep state – not the president – controls the US, Bashar Assad said in an interview. He noted that the agenda of the deep state is to create conflict aimed against Russia.

In an exclusive interview with Athens daily Kathimerini, Assad said there was no reason to meet face-to-face with Trump, since the US president “says something today, and does the opposite tomorrow,” and is likely not even being in control of policy decisions.

“[W]e don’t think the president of that regime is in control,” Assad told the paper, referring to Trump. “We all believe that the deep state, the real state, is in control, or is in control of every president, and that is nothing new. It has always been so in the United States, at least during the last 40 years, at least since Nixon, maybe before, but it’s becoming starker and starker, and the starkest case is Trump.”

Assad also dismissed the possibility of a third world war breaking out in Syria, telling the Greek newspaper that Moscow’s levelheadedness has so far prevented a catastrophic escalation – even as the US aims to expand the conflict. Asked directly if he was concerned about the possibility of a third world war, Assad replied: “No, for one reason: Because fortunately, you have a wise leadership in Russia, and they know that the agenda of the deep state in the United States is to create a conflict. Since Trump’s campaign, the main agenda was against Russia, create a conflict with Russia, humiliate Russia, undermine Russia, and so on,” the Syrian president said.

Assad ended the interview by vowing to reunify Syria and restore its sovereignty, adding that the US, France, UK, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey are ultimately responsible for the seven-year war and must be held accountable for supporting “terrorists” fighting in Syria.

3 thoughts on “Assad: Why talk to Trump if he doesn’t control the US?”
  1. This message is for Putin: I was your avid supporter and so were many others in the West, until recently due to your coddling of Netanyahu and your total lack of any response to Israel’s attack on Syria. You promised to stand by Syria if attacked by Israel but obvious this was an empty promise. Syria has done nothing to provoke Israel yet Israel continues to bombs and kill Syrian civilian’s. Putin, please keep you promise and protect Syria from any further Israeli aggression.

  2. robken
    “This message is for Putin:
    I was your avid supporter and so were many others in the West, until recently due to your coddling of Netanyahu and your total lack of any response to Israel’s attack on Syria. You promised to stand by Syria if attacked by Israel but obvious this was an empty promise. Syria has done nothing to provoke Israel yet Israel continues to bombs and kill Syrian civilian’s. Putin, please keep you promise and protect Syria from any further Israeli aggression”
    That should be Israels “attacks” (plural) as there have been hundreds.
    He is helping Syria but NO S300;
    https://sputniknews.com/military/201805111064353749-russia-s300-supplies-syria/
    Russia is neither supplying S-300 surface-to-air missile systems to Syria, nor negotiating a potential delivery to Damascus, Vladimir Kozhin, presidential aide for military technical cooperation, told Russian media, adding that the Syrian forces had “everything they needed.”
    Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to comment Mr. Kozhin’s remarks, stressing that it would be wrong to connect those statements with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Moscow.
    Unless they are covertly going to supply – which i doubt – or they are speaking in some code i cannot decipher, i like you am disappointed.
    So that amusing meme of Putin with Bibi advising him not to sell S300 ……. absolutely ….. Sergey send S400 …. big smile. chortle, chortle…..
    Its just that – nothing but amusing.

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