[Ariadna: The trenchant and concise statement expressed in the title of Chossudovsky’ interview (Washington with ISIS/Moscow with Syria) is not news to anyone who has been following the disaster inflicted upon Syria. It is, however, one that bears repeating until it is well understood by everyone.]
Washington Is Supporting and Financing the ISIS. Moscow Is Supporting Syria against the ISIS
Press TV has interviewed Michel Chossudovsky, with the Center for Research on Globalization in Montreal, to discuss Russia’s decision to provide Damascus with military supplies and humanitarian aid.
What follows is a rough transcription of the interview.
Video version here
Press TV: Russia’s call for the world to join and help the Syrian government in fighting ISIL terrorists, seems to have fallen on deaf ears at least in Washington. Instead, we have the US president saying that Moscow’s strategy in Syria is doomed to failure. Two questions here: First of all, what is Russia’s strategy that the West is so opposed to? And second: Why is the West so worried about what it calls an alleged Russian build-up in Syria?
Chossudovsky: Well, first of all we have to distinguish between acts of aggression by the US against a sovereign state under the “humanitarian mandate” of “‘going after” ISIL, when in fact we know and it is amply-documented that the ISIL is supported financed by the United States and its allies and what we might describe as bilateral military cooperation between two sovereign states namely Syria and the Russian Federation. And that is something which has been ongoing for many years between the two countries.
Russia has a naval base in the Mediterranean and it is also providing Syria with its air defense system, the S-300, as well as other areas of cooperation particularly focusing on training and weapons systems and so on. I do not think that implies in any way that they would be deploying ground forces. That will not happen.
And this is not something new; it is part of a longstanding relationship between the two governments.
Now with regard to Obama, it is somewhat of a diabolical statement. Since September of last year, and we now are commemorating one year of US humanitarian bombings directly against Iraq and Syria, there have been 53,000 air sorties during that period (those that official figures) of which 6,700 have been what they call strike sorties. Now I would suspect that a large number of the 57,000 sorties are in fact geared towards delivering weapons and supplies to the ISIS (ISIL) which are the foot soldiers of the Western military alliance fighting Syrian government forces.
Press TV: How suspicious do you see the recent increase in the number of countries suddenly eager to join the US airstrikes on Syrian soil?
Chossudovsky: Well you know the United States has always used the strategy of co-opting its so-called allies and, in some cases, its proxy states in doing its dirty work in the war theater and they have the support of Saudi Arabia, Qatar; they also have the European allies, they have Canada. I think that the leaders of these countries, the so-called Western democracies, have to beg the question: Who are we supporting?
They are supporting the terrorists, it is clear and obvious. The strike sorties directed against Syria do not target the ISIL. The ISIL is an instrument of the US administration, it’s an al-Qaeda-affiliated entity. They used to be called al-Qaeda in Iraq and there has been a longstanding intelligence tradition in the United States . US intelligence supports Jihadists al-Qaeda-affiliated organizations. Many of the ISIS [members] are in fact former Libya’s Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) mercenaries who have now joined the ISIL and as we recall those mercenaries were supported also by the United States and NATO.
Copyright © Prof Michel Chossudovsky, Press TV, 2015
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Post Notes
Two Russian airplanes carrying humanitarian aid have landed in Syria’s port city of Latakia.
The aircraft landed at Bassel al-Assad International Airport on Saturday.
The planes carry 80 tonnes of humanitarian aid provided by Russia, according to Syrian media.
The cargo consists of tons of humanitarian aid, including mattresses, blankets, beds, and stoves for heating tents, kitchens for cooking, bedding and tanks for water supply. The cargo also includes cereals, canned goods, condensed milk and baby food.
The Russian Foreign Ministry has praised the government of Greece for not closing its airspace to Russian planes carrying humanitarian aid to Syria. The foreign ministry of the NATO member state said last week that it had received a request from the United States to shut its territory to Russian aircraft.
Last week Bulgaria closed its airspace to Russian cargo planes with relief aid for Syria over “reasonable doubts the cargoes are not the declared ones.”
Washington is putting pressure on countries to close air routes on Russian planes en route from Moscow to Damascus.
Now the whole truth came to light. Washington with ISIS and Moscow with Syria. Lets see what kind of lies the Jewish controlled news media tells the American people.
Extreme Islamic fundamentalism is a Jewish creation. Anyone thinking otherwise is wholly ignorant.
The Jews are highly comfortable within and their primitive methods, as the Jews are the most reactionary people who ever lived.
One must always understand Jews are eternal, and operate by the same formulas – over and over again. Just as they hid behind the wrong, to kill Jesus Christ: they hide behind Isis today- and indeed al Qaeda itself.
The Jews survive by divide and conquer, and subdivide and conquer. These terrorists, operate the Jews formula.
Islamic fundamentalism, just as Christian fundamentalism, should have been passed a long ago – but as Jews understand mobs. They understood the primitive appeal of this.
Sovereign people, and their cultures, are something Jews are at war against. Thou shall not have no gods but Yahweh …. hence these movements, like the Puritans of old, or the Red Bolshevik mobs, of the communist revolution, our Judaic constructs.
Nationalism, entirely Gentile based – which means freedom of all sovereign peoples, is something that that Jews must fight, and eliminate so they made rule as they are known as – the International Jews.
Isis in Judaic in spirit, method, tactic, and foundation.
Could not agree more, Dante.