Senator Alexey Pushkov has criticised US foreign policy after US President Donald Trump said he planned to physically remove Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. He wrote about this in a telegram.
The parliamentarian called the open recognition of the head of the White House about plans to eliminate the President of another country "amazing arrogance and no less amazing cynicism."
"International law and the United States are opposite and incompatible concepts," the Senator stressed.
In support of his words, Pushkov cited quotes from previous American leaders. So, George Bush, in response to a journalist's question about the international legal basis of the war in Iraq, said that he did not know what international law was, and advised to contact his lawyer. The next US President, Barack Obama, who is a Nobel peace prize winner, planned a coup in Syria and declared that "Assad's days are numbered."
Earlier, Trump said that he considered removing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, but was dissuaded by US Defense Secretary James Mattis, who "was against most of these things." The American leader noted that he did not regret his decision.
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Based on materials from RIA Novosti