Scott Bennett asserted that Russia’s imposition of economic sanctions on Turkey is the first step of a civilized information and economic warfare, which Turkey started by killing a Russian pilot and destroying a multi-million dollar Russian plane. "If Putin is smart, which he is, he will be expanding this negative public relations fire which Erdogan has started," Bennett said in an exclusive interview with Mehr News Agency on Russia's military campaign against terrorism in Syria.
Syria seems to have been turned into a battleground for west coalition and Assad supporters. How do you compare the achievements by Russia's military campaign, so far, and US-coalition in Syria?
The simplest way to compare the Russian and American military strategy in Syria is that Russia is serious, while America is schizophrenic. Russia’s objective is to shrink and disintegrate the conflict, while America’s is designed to enlarge and integrate the conflicting parties to synergize their destructive agenda. Russia wants stability and order in the region, while America seeks instability and chaos. Russia has boiled down the conflict, problems and issues in the region to their basic fundamentals in order to clearly understand in the simplest terms how they affect Russia and the world; and then designed a strategy to simply, quickly, and most effectively deal with them. In an act of surreal hypocrisy, America has said it is pursuing one objective, but done the opposite. It has opposed Russia, by complicating and exaggerating the issues, problems, and conflicts by its equipping and supporting the forces of rebellion in Syria without regard to how it would affect the world. The effects of the US policy has been the dissolution of socio-economic stability in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Syria; and a mass exodus of human refugees mixed with opportunists and terrorists into the soft underbelly of Europe in what can only be described as an invasion of chaos sprinkled with suffering.
