Al-Assad: US Seeks to Enforce Global Dominance by Unleashing War on Countries Who Oppose It
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad stated that Washington's pursuit of hegemony has fallen short of its goal, causing havoc and collapse of states.
In an interview to Iranian magazine Tehran Foreign Policy Studies Quarterly, the head of the Syrian state confirmed that he believes that US meddling in the conflict aims to "save what is left" from its fading global preeminence.
Al-Assad mentioned that the US resort to force every time it fears a challenge to its clout and ability to control the international agenda unilaterally.
"United States builds its position on hegemony over other states and it has been the case since they took advantage of the USSR collapse and established unilateral control over this world up to this day," the president said, adding that the real motive behind US military interventions into foreign countries is to coerce them to submit to American authority, as in the case with Syria.
He further stated: "Today, the United States are waging wars with the only goal to cement its project of total control by launching attack on everyone, who opposes its dominance.
In the same context, al-Assad said, noting that Washington "rejects" and "refuses to acknowledge" the nascent balance of powers in the world affairs and the rise of other states.
He believes that while Washington has been losing its grip, it cannot accept the fact it's not being in charge of the global affairs, and tries to reaffirm, if not to strengthen, its positions in the world.
"What is happening in Syria is an attempt to save what is left from the American and western hegemony in the world," al-Assad said.
According to the Syrian president, "the only one thing the Americans have succeeded is creating problems and destroying states, no more than that."
Washington spares no means to inflict losses on its ideological rivals, including "terrorism", psychological and economical methods, he added. However, he thinks that a biased coverage of the conflict by mainstream media delivers one of the most significant blows.
"Here we are talking not only about the minds of the officials, but about the people, about the wrong analysis of what is happening and presenting things in a distorted way."
If Syria manages to withstand the pressure and uproot the terrorism from its soil, the victory will pave the way for "spread of ideas of independent development [in the world], that is what the West fears most of all," al-Assad said, adding that "what will happen in Syria will affect the political map."
The Syrian president does not believe that that the US foreign policy may change its track in the foreseeable future, as wars are in the interest of American powerful lobby groups, in particular, arms and oil lobbies.
"There is no point in analyzing US politics on the basis of common sense, as it is guided by the factional interests," Assad said.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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