US Claims to Devise Plan B for Syria Empty Threats – Syrian Opposition Member

The United States does not have an alternative plan for ending the Syrian crisis, Qadri Jamil, one of the leaders of the Moscow-Cairo-Astana opposition platform said Friday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – US Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken told a Senate committee last week that the US administration was mulling other options of stopping fighting in Syria after claims that the nationwide truce, brokered by Moscow and Washington, was collapsing.

"The US has no Plan B for Syria… It is nothing but noise used by the US to hide its inability to influence the situation [on the ground]," Jamil told reporters.

"[US President Barack] Obama admitted there was not chance of opening a new front," the opposition representative said. "They took on a task they could not deliver and are rowing back on it."

Jamil described Russia’s decision to deploy S-300 air defense systems to Syria as a game changer that tipped the balance of powers against US-backed forces. Russia is using the S-300 and the advanced S-400 systems to protect the Hmeimim and Tartus military facilities.