The western media is drawing a miserable picture about civilians fleeing Aleppo in Syria as government forces encircle the city and liberate parts of it. According to veteran French journalist and geopolitical analyst Jean-Michel Vernochet some residents of Aleppo warmly received their liberators after suffering years of civil war. The duplicity of the Western-Arab coalition against ISIS/Daesh is beginning to come to light following Russia’s involvement in Syria and the success of the Syrian army. Sputnik reports: In an op-ed analysis for the independent French news and analysis website Boulevard Voltaire, Vernochet commented on the Syrian Army’s efforts to liberate Aleppo, Syria’s second city, slamming European and American media and officials for what he said was a highly ‘duplicitous’ position. “On February 1,” the journalist recalled, the Syrian Army, with the support of Russian aviation, launched a large-scale operation to liberate Aleppo, the former economic capital of Syria,” a part of which “has been in the hands of the rebellion since 2012.” “As always, the media began effusively writing about the crowds of people fleeing from the fighting and the advance of government forces. The only thing missing in the picture being painted were the images of the residents of the city’s Western neighborhoods, who welcomed the government troops as liberators.” Жители шиитского города под Алеппо с ликованием встретили солдат [...]