Russia�s military withdrawal from Syria signals Moscow�s victory over Washington in dealing with the Syrian conflict, proving it is possible to maintain peace in other countries without occupying them, says an American political analyst.

Daniel Patrick Welch, a Boston-based political commentator, made the remarks on Wednesday when referring to US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland�s remarks the day before.

Nuland said Tuesday Russia's pullout of military forces from Syria will not lead to a removal of US sanctions against Russia and Washington will continue to maintain the economic pressure on Moscow, until it fully withdraws forces and military equipment from the Ukrainian border.

This �is just typical of the arrogance and intransigence of the US government,� Daniel Patrick Welch told Press TV on Wednesday. The United States and its European allies accuse Russia of destabilizing Ukraine, a pretext based on which a series of economic sanctions have been imposed on Russia.

�They think they can just throw around these sanctions and this muscle against other states when the blood on their hands is so thick and so deep,� he added.

He said it was Nuland who was basically �the principle� in orchestrating a political coup in Ukraine, who as a part of the US State Department, has also been leading attempts to force regime change in countries like Syria through �the implementation of the US death squads policy.�

The analyst added that such ideologies as that of Nuland are prevalent in both major US political parties, which means any future US government would advocate similar policies.

�Whatever they can do to maintain that hegemony,� he continued. �There is no chance that someone else who sits in the Oval Office is going to have a different perspective.�

Elsewhere in his remarks, Welch suggested that Russia has already won the standoff with the US over Syria.

�It is a chess move, of course; but it is a chess move designed not to please Western hegemon but to announce to the rest of the world that �look we can stop this regime change juggernaut, but we don�t have to occupy and destroy countries for decades in order to do that,�� Welch further explained.

By Press TV