President Vladimir Putin has defended Russia’s military operations in Syria, saying the aim is to “stabilise the legitimate authority” of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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“The reality is that even with the benefit of American arms, rebel forces are unlikely to be able to overcome Russian-backed regime forces”, he wrote in a piece for CNN.
“What we have playing out in Syria is a proxy war on so many different multiple levels”, Damon said.
All pallets successfully were regained by friendly forces, a US official said.
C-17s, accompanied by fighter escort aircraft, dropped small-arms ammunition and other items such hand grenades in Hasakah province to a coalition of rebels groups vetted by the United States, known as the Syrian Arab Coalition. On Monday, the Russian Defense Ministry said it had hit 53 targets including command centers, training camps and fuel and ammunition dumps belonging to ISIS and other “terrorists”.
The article said in today’s Syria or the Middle East, the US and Russian Federation “have important common interests”, and “the most important thing at the centre of the Syria issue is to seek solutions to problems”.
“The US was efficiently dictating to these combatants, telling them they just needed them to focus on the battle against ISIS”. To this end, Washington has assured a steady flow of arms and money to the anti-government forces to assure that the war grinds on. It only responded once ISIS columns overran roughly a third of Iraq in the summer of 2014.
Russian Federation began its air campaign in Syria on September 30, helping support Assad and his embattled troops at a critical point in the fighting. Millions of refugees fleeing to other countries.
Russia, on the other hand, wants to defeat both ISIS and the other Islamist militias like al-Nusra that are often referred to in Western government and media circles as “moderates”.
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Former analyst at the Intelligence Agency of the US Defense Department, Jeffrey White, said that “intelligence officers saw and knew everything, including about the supplies of Russian military equipment to Syria”. Yet American officials also believe that getting Assad out of Syria is a key precursor to defeating the Islamic State movement, which is driven in part by Sunni disaffection with the Alawite governing class. And the Russians are working to keep Assad in power. The Syrian regime has bought billions of dollars worth. Putin is bringing along a few of the necessary resources – planes, helicopters, missiles, warships…
