War

Iraqi Leader Says Iraq Needs Russia Not US

Nouri al-Maliki, the puppet that Washington put in office in Iraq after destroying the country said yesterday: “we would like Russia to have a substantial presence in our country, both politically and militarily.”

In his talks with Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, earlier Monday, al-Maliki stressed that a Russian presence in Iraq would bring the balance which couldn’t be “undermined in a political sense in favor of any external party.”

Authored by Khadija Khan via The Gatestone Institute,

Authored by Ivan Eland via The Strategic Culture Foundation,

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