Boris Johnson: ‘Set aside Cold War mindset, join Putin & Assad to defeat ISIS’
- ‘Britain must join forces with Syrian President Bashar Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin to defeat Islamic State (formerly ISIS/ISIL), London Mayor Boris Johnson wrote in his weekly newspaper column.
Johnson has also said the government’s claim there are 70,000 moderate rebel ground troops willing to work with British armed forces may be “exaggerated.” These troops, he wrote, may include jihadists who are ideologically aligned with al-Qaeda.
Last week, Prime Minister David Cameron told MPs: “We believe there are around 70,000 Syrian opposition fighters, principally of the Free Syrian Army, who do not belong to extremist groups, and with whom we can coordinate attacks on ISIL.”’
Read more: Boris Johnson: ‘Set aside Cold War mindset, join Putin & Assad to defeat ISIS’
The post Boris Johnson: ‘Set aside Cold War mindset, join Putin & Assad to defeat ISIS’ appeared first on David Icke.
Leave a Reply