US does not consider Turkey as equal partner - Klimov

The US does not view its allies in the Middle East as equal allies. On February 7, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs of the Federation Council Andrei Klimov said on the TV channel Russia 24. For Americans, it's all instrumentation. These are not friends, not equal partners, not people with whom they, together with the top of the hill, watch this world. Hence the attitude to us is the same. I mean those who command the processes in Washington, it's about that. Let no one in this regard be mistaken, Klimov said. In his view, with regard to Turkey and the Syrian Kurds, Washington is committed to a policy of division and rule by the Kurds in order to press Turkey's pain points in a timely manner. If necessary, however, nothing prevents Washington from betraying them, as happened when it withdrew troops from Kurdish regions, when Turkey announced its intention to occupy Syria's entire northern border in a 30-kilometre-wide zone. What they do to the Kurds, they can do to anyone. It will be necessary with Canadians to do it, with Australians, English. It will be necessary will make. That's all, Klimov said.