Russia unmasked ISIL as Western 'pawn' in Middle East: Analyst
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“The US has never allowed any of its extremist boogeyman that it has used as pawns in its policies in the Middle East to be defeated,” said a former US congressional staffer.
The United States is determined to counter Russia’s successes in Syria through increased funding for the military campaign against Daesh (ISIL) -- which Moscow has unmasked as a “Western pawn” in the Middle East, says a political analyst in California.
“Russia has been the major player in combating ISIL and has successfully unmasked ISIL as a Western element in Syria and throughout the Middle East,” Rodney Martin, a former US congressional staffer, said in an interview on Wednesday.
US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter announced on Tuesday that the Pentagon was planning to increase the military budget to combat the ISIL terrorist group in 2017.
"Because we are accelerating the campaign, the Department of Defense is backing that up and we need to back it up in our budget with a total of $7.5 billion in 2017, fifty percent more than in 2016,” he said.
Martin said that Carter’s is “basically one upmanship in a chess game to counter Russian successes in Syria.”
“All of this has to do with Russia. It has very little to do with ISIL. The West will never allow ISIL to be fully defeated, like it has never allowed the Taliban to be defeated,” he noted.
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