Assad to Sputnik: World War III Already Unleashed by West in Form of Proxy War
- Assad to Sputnik: World War III Already Unleashed by West in Form of Proxy War
by https://sputniknews.com/
Syrian President Bashar Assad was interviewed by Sputnik after his summit with Putin. Assad stressed that modern conflicts between rival powers are waged as proxy wars, citing Kiev’s “army of Nazis” and Western-backed jihadists in Syria. The Syrian leader believes only a coalition of countries led by Russia and China can topple the US hegemony.
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Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin met on Wednesday in the Kremlin to discuss economic and political cooperation. Sputnik was the first international news agency to interview the Syrian leader, immediately after the talks.
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Sputnik: Mr. President, may you please share with us the key results of the meeting with President Putin and whether we should expect any new developments in Russian-Syrian relations?
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President Assad: In past years, in the years of the war in Syria, meetings with President Putin always touched upon important issues. We can say that all the visits were important, but this visit was particularly important in two respects.
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The first is political: this was my first meeting with President Putin since the start of the war in Ukraine, and possibly since the end of the coronavirus-related crisis. Because the coronavirus and the war in Ukraine have affected the global situation. Now we see that the alliances and alignments in the world have changed. It was necessary to discuss and analyze this situation to develop a joint Syrian-Russian vision, through which we will determine how we will interact at the next stage.
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