Michel wil aldus mogelijk meestappen in pogingen van Turkije en Saoedi-Arabië om Syrië te verhinderen z'n soevereine grondgebied in zijn totaliteit te bevrijden van terroristische elementen.

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<sub>Western propaganda habitually accuses Russia of “revisionism,” and the alleged desire to destroy the established international system, as if it was us who bombed Yugoslavia in 1999 in violation of the UN Charter and the Helsinki Final Act, as if it was Russia that ignored international law by invading Iraq in 2003 and distorted UN Security Council resolutions by overthrowing Muammar Gaddafi’s regime by force in Libya in 2011. There are many examples.


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This discourse about “revisionism” does not hold water. It is based on the simple and even primitive logic that only Washington can set the tune in world affairs. In line with this logic, the principle once formulated by George Orwell and moved to the international level, sounds like the following: all states are equal but some states are more equal than others. However, today international relations are too sophisticated a mechanism to be controlled from one centre. This is obvious given the results of US interference: There is virtually no state in Libya; Iraq is balancing on the brink of disintegration, and so on and so forth.

A reliable solution to the problems of the modern world can only be achieved through serious and honest cooperation between the leading states and their associations in order to address common challenges. Such an interaction should include all the colours of the modern world, and be based on its cultural and civilisational diversity, as well as reflect the interests of the international community’s key components.


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Speaking about Russia's role in the world as a great power, Russian philosopher Ivan Ilyin said that the greatness of a country is not determined by the size of its territory or the number of its inhabitants, but by the capacity of its people and its government to take on the burden of great world problems and to deal with these problems in a creative manner. A great power is the one which, asserting its existence and its interest ... introduces a creative and meaningful legal idea to ​​the entire assembly of the nations, the entire “concert” of the peoples and states. It is difficult to disagree with these words.</sub>

"The organization [ISIL] is the baby of George W. Bush. And the violence that we face now is the fallout or boomerang effect of our own wars." BRON

Four Saudi F-15s to land at Turkey's Incirlik airbase on Friday
_{25 feb 2016}

Turkse politie bestormt redactielokalen van oppositiekrant Zaman
_{5 mrt 2016}

De Turkse politie heeft vrijdagavond de redactielokalen van de krant "Zaman" in Istanbul bestormd. De krant is erg kritisch voor de regering-Erdogan. Eerder op de dag werd al door een rechter beslist om ze onder curatele van de overheid te plaatsen. (...)