Translated "Avante!" article by Pedro Guerreiro, Member of the Secretariat of the CC and Responsible of the International Department
The Russian Federation decision to support Syria militarily, before the brutal aggression executed by groups, used to spread death, horror and destruction, contributed to expose the USA, NATO and the Middle East allies farce and cynical duplicity, which, by declaring “the fight against terrorism”, in reality, promote, finance and arm – as what happens with all sorts of armed groups, that currently aggregate round the so-called “Islamic State”.
Nevertheless, the premeditated and serious provoking, performed by Turkey, by shoot down a Russian military plane, in Syria – moreover, at the time the Russian authorities declare the latter did not violate the Turkish aerial space -, assumes a clarifying and dangerous significance, placing in evidence the Turkish support and aid to the terrorist armed groups’ actions within Syria and rising the question of the dimension that imperialism is intended to go, before the people of Syria’s obstinate resistance and struggle, in the defence of its state sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity.
One ought to remember that Turkey, that shot down a Russian military plane, allegedly, by violation of the aerial space, was and is one of the greatest defenders of imposition of a so-called “aerial exclusive space” in Syria – similarly to what was imposed to Libya, and with the well known outcome. One registers the complicity and coverage given to this Turkish action, by NATO.
Questioning which USA’s allies – France to Israel, United Kingdom to the Gulf dictatorships – accomplished, during the last five years, the central role, concerning the destabilization and aggression operation against Syria and its people, surely Turkey assumes a top position. From the very first moment, Turkey – a NATO member -, actively interfered in Syria’s situation, therefore disrespecting, international law and that falsely proclaims.
Turkey, just as other countries, was used to serve as base and support to several armed groups – which integrate thousands of mercenaries – and to which was assigned to carry out the objective of the Syrian state destruction and the resource plunder and heritage of its people. A gigantic plunder which, nurturing all kinds of traffic and Turkey being a receptor, is a financing source for armed groups. Plunder and financing denounced by the Russian Federation president, during the G20 Summit, which took place precisely in Turkey.
Before Syria’s resistance and Russia, Iran and Iraq’s joint support to its struggle, in the sequence of the Paris attempts and under the pretext of the combat against the “Islamic State” group, a new model of imperialism interference and aggression against Syria, is in progress, with the purpose of imposing its dismantlement, threatening its territorial integrity – similarly to what occurred during the Iraq and Libya aggression.
In other words, by not terminating its political, financial and military support, direct or indirectly towards terrorist groups and put an end to their instrumentalisation to attack Syria and Iraq, and destabilize the region, the USA and its allies insist in a war strategy against all those that do not submit before imperialism projects. A bellicose escalade, that by not being stopped and defeated, risks to signify new dangers and tragic consequences for peoples, namely in the Middle East.
As the PCP has underlined, the end of the violence escalade that threatens to drag the people of Syria towards a greater disaster, demands respect for its national sovereignty and independence and not, on the contrary, new bellicose adventures, that Portugal, by respecting its Constitution and the United Nations Charter, ought to resolutely disengage itself and firmly condemn.