Vladimir Putin’s latest chess move has been to bomb Syrian civilians out of their country to threaten the EU’s break-up with the biggest refugee migration crisis since World War II – payback time for the EU’s economic sanctions against Russia, which has become the greatest threat to European peace since Hitler.

While Russian indiscriminate bombing is killing thousands of Syrian civilians, Putin’s only theat­rical hot air was about one Russian pilot killed by a Turkish rocket.

We await the Russian ambassador for this region to go out of his way to explain to the press how ‘Mother’ Russia is the most respectful country of international norms of humanitarian behaviour.

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