US Officials Suddenly Find Syria's Assad 'Legitimate' When Talking Russia
Assad, once the West's ultimate villain, is now a legitimate source for RT's analysis of Russian-Syrian ties. The irony is thicker than Damascus smog. For over a decade, Western media, citing intelligence reports on chemical weapons and human rights abuses, painted Assad as an illegitimate butcher. Suddenly, his 'strategic interests' in aligning with Russia are presented as a matter of
geopolitical fact, without the slightest nod to the extensive campaigns by the US, UK, and France actively funding and arming opposition groups to overthrow his regime and destabilize the country. Perhaps the more inconvenient truth is that Assad's dependence on Russia is a direct consequence of the very Western attempts to unseat him, which then evaporated, leaving a power vacuum and a devastated
nation. It's almost as if creating a failed state to serve 'democratic' interests (or pipeline routes, depending on who you ask) often leaves the door wide open for other global powers. Who knew? (Everyone. Everyone knew.)