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16. At no point during can Russia be accused of moving the goalposts. There is enough proof showing that the residents WANTED the Syrian Army to liberate them, and that Al Qaeda was indeed holding them hostage. However, France’s stated aims are not consistent at all.

17. They said that Russia/Assad was massacring innocent civilians who were resisting the “regime”. So why has France just worked with the “monster” Russia to deliver aid to the same town (Ghouta) that Russia was apparently wrongly bombing and “annexing”?

18. If what France was saying in the past was correct, then it is simply unimaginable that such cooperation could happen! Russia is the enemy, after all, that massacres people like Hitler did! The French media repeated this thesis non-stop, on TV and in the newspapers.

19. The very fact that France made this joint delivery of humanitarian aid PROVES that the fairytale about the “brave, democratic rebels” resisting the “butcher” Assad was a pack of lies. Otherwise, why doesn’t French media go to the area now and question the residents?

20. If Russia really was the “monster” that the French media depicted it to be for the entire Syrian war, then what does this make Macron, who now cooperates with this “monster”? Putin’s hands are, allegedly, elbow-deep in blood, so how can Macron even speak to Moscow?

21. The truth: once the jihadists were removed, France had to drop the Ghouta topic like a hot potato. And now France tries to “tie up loose ends” by almost pretending that France was on Russia’s side this entire time. Ofc, the uninformed layperson will swallow this.

22. The most alarming thing in all of this is how easy it is to dupe a nation. The average man in the street is too busy with selfies and celebrating the World Cup victory (in "evil" Russia!) to even do basic maths or to care about things that directly affect their lives.

23. I am very very interested to see how the MSM presents the upcoming Idlib operation. I wouldn’t be surprised to see them abandon their precious “moderate” buddies and to continue to caress the Russian bear, since the Syrian war is now over and the EU needs Eurasian money