“US Middle East policy has changed entering into a more active phase. Trump emphasized his anti-Russia and anti-Putin mood by his decision”, told Arabist Hayk Kocharyan during the press conference referring to the US president Donald Trump’s recently command to airstrike the Syrian government airbase.
According to him, the use of chemical weapons in Idlib was a pretext for the United States for the attacks on Syrian airbase: “The question as who is faulty in its use remains open. According to the Arabist, from the perspective of politics, the US airstrikes were directed against Russia, although the material damage was carried by Syrian president Bashar Assad’s forces. In the territory of Syria, the air cooperation of the USA and Russia was suspended”. Pursuant to the opinion of the Arabist, in the near future, there will be frigidity in Russian-American relations: “Еach of them in their turn will try to escalate the situation in the Middle East”. The speaker also referred to today’s terrorist attack in Egypt. “Christians are targeted. There are no actions aimed against Armenians in Egypt, but they, as citizens of Egypt, have the same risks to turn up in the center of terrorism, as the other residents.”
Luiza SUKIASYAN
