US Would Attack Friend & Foe To Protect Its Hegemony And Doesn’t Shy Away From Using Terrorists As Proxies – Syrian President Bashar Al- Assad

RT

Syria became a testing ground for the US as it refined its tools to safeguard global hegemony, President Bashar al-Assad told RT’s Afshin Rattansi.

He also explained what many Syrians are fighting for.

Washington sees its former dominant role slipping away and is trying to preserve it using all means available, the Syrian leader believes.

So the US would “fight the Russians, the Iranians, the Syrians, whoever said ‘No’. Even their allies if they said ‘No’. Like the Western governments, they will fight with them,” he said.

In fact, Syria was targeted by the US after two very costly direct military invasions in Afghanistan and Iraq.

In the latter case, the US and its allies fought against Saddam Hussein – an Iraqi strongman, who enjoyed active support of Washington and London for decades – particularly in his war with another American rival – Iran.

Yet, later, relations between them soured