“The Russians learned their lesson in Libya and Russia does have a much closer relationship with Syria than it had with Libya and I don’t think the Russians are going to be allowing the US and other countries to be attacking Syria openly. So I think that [war] really is off the table,” Kevin Barrett, author and Islamic studies expert, said in an interview with Press TV.
He also downplayed the possibility of another conflict by Washington in the Middle East.
“I can’t imagine that the US government is crazy enough to try to risk a war with Russia over Syria where really the US has no vital interests,” the analyst argued.
On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated that Syria required dialog rather than foreign intervention in order to put an end to the 16-month-long unrest in the country.
Barrett pointed out that the real force behind the war is the Likud Zionist Party in Israel, which has an agenda to destabilize the Middle East and in particular to break Syria up into a number of different countries based on their various ethnic and religious differences.
“This has been a Zionist project for decades and you can see it coming to fruition today as they’ve managed to get the US on board with it,” he concluded.
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