"The West should acknowledge that a ground deployment of sorts is, ultimately, the only way to quash IS"

In both Ukraine and Syria, the Russian President has exploited the West’s weakness to divide Nato and halt the advance of democracy

‘Europe must force Iran to rethink its support for Assad, the main cause of Syrian misery and the migration crisis’

"I’ve said it before: where do the Israel-bashers stand on Syria? I’ll say it again because I hear a resounding silence."