A military attack against Syria is a US-Israeli plot aimed at preventing Russia from playing a role in the Middle East developments, a political analyst tells Press TV.
Mark Glenn, a member of the Crescent and Cross Solidarity Movement, said a strike on Syria is part of a US-Israeli project to drive Russia out of the Middle East, just like the 1967 USS Liberty incident in which the American surveillance ship was attacked by Israel in a false-flag operation to put the blame on Å“Egypt which was Soviet Unionâ„¢s biggest client state in the region at that time.”
Å“And so we are seeing basically a replay of all of this and that the United States and Israel are desperately trying to push the Russians out of the region permanently,” Glenn said.
He pointed out that Russia is trying its best to counter any move by the US as Moscow intends to remain in the region even at the cost of engaging in a war with Washington.
The rhetoric of war against Syria first gained momentum on August 21, when the militants operating inside the Middle Eastern country and the foreign-backed Syrian opposition claimed that over a thousand people had been killed in a government chemical attack on militant strongholds in the Damascus suburbs of Ain Tarma, Zamalka and Jobar.
Damascus categorically rejected the accusation.
On August 31, US President Barack Obama said he has decided that Washington must take military action against the Syrian government, which would mean a unilateral military strike without a UN mandate. Obama, however, said his administration will first seek authorization from Congress.
All of this comes while the team of UN inspectors, who recently visited Syria to probe the sites of the gas attacks, has yet to release the findings of its inspection.
The UN, Iran, Russia, and China have warned against war.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday night that Moscow has its own plans to deal with a possible US military offensive against Syria.
“We have our own ideas about what we would do and how we would do it if the situation develops toward the use of force or otherwise,” he said. “We have our plans, but it’s too early to talk about them.”
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Republished from: Press TV