“What Trump is doing in Iran is not vastly different to what Putin did in Ukraine”, according to Sir John Sawers, former head of British spy agency M16, speaking with Australian Broadcasting Corporation journalist Sarah Ferguson on 11 March.

Putin will thank Sawers for his honesty!

At a meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club in Russia on 27 October 2016, Putin was asked about Russia’s fight against terrorists, particularly Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) and the destruction of much of the city of Aleppo. Putin’s earlier actions again Grozny in Chechnya were also on people’s minds.

Putin said: “We keep hearing Aleppo, Aleppo, Aleppo. But what is the issue here? Do we leave the terrorists in place, or do we squeeze them out? Look at Israel’s example. Israel never steps back but fights to the end.”

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