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Al-Nusra fighters
Al-Nusra fighters
Interviewed by France's Atlantico news website, Lombardi, an independent consultant and analyst specializing in the Middle East, suggested that the goals Moscow is pursuing in Syria do not pose a threat to the West, but on the contrary, are protecting European interests.
The Russian air operation in Syria, in the analyst's view, has three objectives: a) to see Russia become a regional or even global power through a successful demonstration of its ability to resolve conflicts in the Middle East; b) to support the Syrian government "so that it will eventually become de facto the single bulwark against Al-Qaeda and Daesh (ISIL)," and c) to fight against radical Islamism, which poses a threat not only to the region, but to Russia and its 20 million-strong Muslim community as well.
"Which of these objectives are a threat to the West?" Lombardi bluntly asked. "One must be either blind or a complete idiot not to notice that, when Russia defends its interests in the Middle East, it is simultaneously defending the interests of Europe, and particularly those of France," the analyst bitingly added.
"Is it necessary to recall that the terrorists who struck France in 2015 were not obeying orders from Moscow? Or that it was not Russia that funded or supported some Salafist imams from the Muslim Brotherhood to preach violence and hatred in our nation in some French mosques?"
Comment: Think about it: Rice, no paragon of virtue herself, at least had the common sense to donate her fee back to the charity. Killary kept it all. She just can't help but to expose herself for the vile creature she is. Watch out, America, lest you get the president-butcher the civilized world thinks you deserve.