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Emmanuel Macron's intelligence service has sent a team of French terrorist "experts" in Chemical Weapons to Idlib in order to modify the warheads of missiles possessed by mostly the Hay'at Tahreer Al-Shaam criminal organization. Their arrival was coordinated with MIT, Turkey's CIA, across a illegal crossing which Erdoghan thinks will baffle the Russians who have a memorandum of understanding with Ankara over areas designated as "de-escalation zones". Nobody is baffled.

Moreover, the so-called White Helmets were monitored yesterday delivering to the French terrorists 5 canisters of CW hauled from warehouses operated by HTS in Kafr Nibbul, just west of Ma'arrat Al-Nu'maan to a recently dug underground warehouse in Idlib City near the Central Prison. The new warehouse was dug and finished with the use of Turk-supplied backhoes. The canisters are believed to contain Chlorine or Sarin gas.

The team of terrorists are a mix of French citizens of Moroccan descent who were trained for exactly this mission. They are all Arabic speakers but speak a kind of Arabic Syrians are unable to understand. They, therefore, use French in order to communicate with the rodents of HTS.

A few days ago, terrorist websites confirmed that columns of HTS tanks, heavy artillery, flatbeds with 22 mm cannons, various vehicles and American-manufactured Stinger shoulder-carried launchers and rockets had left Idlib City and Khaan Shaykhoon for destinations close to the border with Hama Governorate. There is something clearly brewing and it has something to do with the CW delivered to the Macron-inspired terrorists.

Erdoghan seems to think he is very clever. He is not. Russia and Syria, and Iran, for that matter, all know that he has given the terrorists carte blanche to rearm and deploy any which way they like. He has only placed one condition to supposedly confuse the Russians: use only illegal and non-traditional crossings from Turkey into Syria.

Moscow has demonstrated that it is "prepared to use military force to secure and expand its own national interests," he told the Telegraph. Head-chopping Islamists apparently pale in comparison.

Carleton-Smith was speaking after visiting UK soldiers deployed to the Baltic country of Estonia, where 'Russia scare' proponents have also been known to raise a few eyebrows. ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov fired back on Saturday, saying: "That's the worldview of a country that has spelt out its right to use force arbitrarily regardless of UN Security Council resolutions."

In fact, some would argue that fanning fears over 'evil Russia' are instrumental in explaining or justifying increased defense spending. It wouldn't be the first time the UK establishment has done so.

That aside, the latest tough claim from the UK is echoing a similar bizarre statement made by Barack Obama in 2014. Not mincing his words, then-US President also said that Russia was more dangerous than Islamic State. Well, at least that evil has been surpassed by Ebola, according to the American leader.

With the perceived threat from Russia, NATO has not passed up the opportunity to bolster its military presence all the way to Russia's Western border, including the Baltic region where massive war games frequently take place.

Additionally, it emerged in September that London will send troops to the Arctic to "defend" the region from Russia (an internationally recognized Arctic country). Around 800 Royal Marine and Army commandos will be deployed to Norway every winter throughout the next decade according to Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson, who also did not hesitate to call the area the UK's "own backyard."

We can't ban anyone from showing off [their] intellect and political abilities.