The Real Blame For All This Misery

Although he remains trapped in the anti-Chinese frenzy, inviting sympathy in Xinjiang for people, sometimes the same individuals and always with the same ideology, for whom he rightly excoriates support in Syria, Peter Hitchens writes:

I have made many enemies by refusing to join in the anti-Russian frenzy.

I was particularly scorned for pointing out that Britain’s pious attacks on the Russian bombing of Aleppo were ridiculous, given what Western forces were doing in cities ruled by Islamic State.

Now Anthony Loyd of The Times has visited Raqqa which, like Mosul, was shelled and bombed heavily by US and British forces, though the British Government has absurdly denied causing any civilian casualties there. 

And he has found that Syrian workers recovering the dead say the vast majority of the remains being dug from the ruins are ‘those of civilians killed by coalition air strikes and artillery fire’.

Let’s hope that these facts will end the ridiculous moral posturing of the Western countries about Russia’s role in the Syrian war.

The real blame for all this misery lies in those Western countries.

By intervening first in Iraq and then in Libya and Syria, they transformed this whole region into a cauldron of war. 

And they turned hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians into corpses, and millions into refugees and economic migrants. 

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