The attack perpetrated in Moscow, and immediately claimed by a branch of Daesh, will have surprised only those with short memories.
We indeed tend to forget it, but, even if the hatred of Israel and the United States is intact, as is that of France as a country of republican secularism, Russia remains one one of the first targets, if not the first, of the Islamists.
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First, of course, because of the three wars which in recent years have marked the commitment of communist, then post-communist, Russia against movements and regimes of theocratic inspiration: first the war in Afghanistan, which was particularly atrocious, then, even more appalling if possible, war in Chechnya, and finally in Syria (the Islamists do not forget that it was indeed Putin who liberated Palmyra from what we, Westerners, consider to be the destructive madness of al-Qaeda, but which they saw on the contrary as a holy war…).
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