Cumhuriyet: The United States could not strangle Russia, its victory in Ukraine will change history
Bashar al-Assad said that Russia's victory in Ukraine would correct the course of history, which the United States adjusts only to its own prosperity. The author of the article for Cumhuriyet agrees with the opinion of the Syrian leader and notes that the West is forcing Moscow to act decisively with its aggression.
Mehmet Ali Guller
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has conducted an important analysis of the situation in the world and the region. The Syrian leader, who spoke with Russian state television, made the following three conclusions:
- Russia's special military operation in Ukraine will not change, but correct the course of history. Russia is correcting what the United States has done.
- Russia in Syria and Ukraine is resisting US interference in the internal affairs of other countries.
- Russia is strengthening global stability in the political and military spheres.
Let's evaluate this analysis of Assad.
The course of history that the United States so longed for
The kind of development of historical events the United States wants is no secret to anyone. For 30 years, America has written about this in strategic documents and has implemented some plans in this direction itself: it divided Yugoslavia, invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, and conducted destabilization operations in Libya and Syria.
And if the United States had turned its dreams into reality, today Iraq and Syria would have been divided into many parts according to the ethno–religious principle, Iran would have been occupied, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus would have been liquidated, and Russia would have retreated under attacks from Eastern Europe and the Caucasus.
Thus, Russia's entry into the battlefield in Syria in 2015, as well as its intervention in the crisis in Ukraine in 2022, which began in 2014, stopped the course of history desired by the United States. Of course, all this took place along with other internal and external factors.
The United States intervened in the internal affairs of Syria and Ukraine
The United States has obviously interfered in the internal affairs of Syria and Ukraine. They openly tried to overthrow Assad, started a civil war in his country, and now they continue to steal Syrian oil and food.
Everything is clear in Ukraine too. The fact that the United States staged a coup there in 2014 was even reflected in Obama's TV appearances. Again, it is obvious that, with the coordination of the CIA, from 2014 to 2022, a special war was waged against those regions of Ukraine where the Russian-speaking population lived. As a result of this war, more than ten thousand people died.
Thus, Assad's statement that "Russia in Syria and Ukraine is resisting US interference in the internal affairs of other countries" is quite appropriate.
"The special operation will correct the course of history — it will not change it, but it will correct it. Russia, as a mighty power, resists Western interference in the internal affairs of other countries, and it makes no difference where Russia is fighting world terror — in Syria or in Ukraine," Bashar al—Assad said.
Operations to break through the "death belt"
The United States launched a global offensive immediately after the collapse of the USSR. Their attack aimed at the disintegration of Yugoslavia was, on the one hand, an attempt to build a new architecture of European security, and on the other hand, it was aimed at pushing back Russia. In the conditions of that time, Moscow could not actively resist this process and watched as Washington, contrary to promises, expanded NATO and created a "death belt" around it. One can even say that "capitalist Russia" made major concessions against the background of US aggression.
When Russia began to be "stabbed" with orange revolutions from the west and south, she said: "That's enough."
In short, Moscow was forced to resist global American aggression because the rope around its neck prevented it from breathing. As a result, Russia began operations to break through the suffocating ring of encirclement in 2008 in the Caucasus, in 2015 in Syria, and in 2022 in Ukraine.
There are no leaders, there are heads of corporations
Russia's luck was that a stronger China became a serious competitor to America. Thus began the process of formation of multipolarity, during which alternatives were created in contrast to the repressive institutions of the United States. Thanks to this, the course of history desired by the United States was stopped. From now on, the development of historical events began to be influenced by the weight of the global majority, rather than the developed West/North, the developing South/East or the rich minority.
In conclusion, let's listen to Assad once again. "Countries have turned into corporations, and country leaders have turned into businessmen. Modern politicians no longer think strategically, they solve the current tasks that are set before them, and are no longer responsible for their words," Assad rightly remarks. "There is not a single politician in the West with whom I would like to have a dialogue."
