As is customary for those who are always right, the ends justify the means, undoubtedly a founding principle of liberal democracy.

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First Emmanuel Macron, now Donald Trump. The two transatlantic strands of the so-called “Western civilization”, or “our civilization”, apparently so at odds in these times, now bow to the Islamic terrorist leader Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, who seized power in Damascus on 8 December last.

Forget all the differences that are said to exist between the European Union and the Trump administration in the White House. None of this is to be taken seriously, least of all the supposed criticisms made by the federalist institutions and the heads of government of the majority of the 27 to the clumsy individual who governs the United States of America. When it comes to so-called Islamic terrorism and its exponents, whether al-Qaida, Isis or the “Islamic State” and the myriad heteronyms in which they mimic themselves, Washington and Brussels speak with one voice, that of support and gratitude. It has been like this since the 80s of the last century, but the admiration and affection now publicly witnessed for the terrorist mercenary responsible for the carnage of the war against Syria makes all masks fall, nullifies any exercises in hypocrisy.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

The cult of the figure of the butcher Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, now known as Ahmed al-Sharaa and vice versa, is a treatise, or could be a case study on the “rules-based international order” by which a “superior civilization” such as the Western one is guided, permanently involved in the fight against “barbarism”.

There is an al-Jolani who was a senior adviser to the leaders of al-Qaeda and Isis, then commanded al-Nusra, the name adopted by al-Qaeda in Syria and then changed to Tharir al-Sham. This semantic mobility was articulated in such a way as to try to make the world believe that the organization operating in the Syrian scenario had divorced itself from the gang founded by the CIA and bin-Laden and thus justify its place in the nucleus of the “moderate” terrorists financed by the West. The names changed but the murderous essence remained and al-Qaeda continued to be the hat covering the entire “moderate” community. Nothing to stand in the way. The then French Prime Minister, the Zionist Laurent Fabius, acknowledged at a meeting of the international coalition of support for the “moderates” that “al-Qaeda is doing a good job” in Syria.

Al-Jolani, a criminal and mercenary who led some of the most savage attacks on civilians during the war imposed on Syria, replicated the look of his idol bin-Laden: tribal robes, dishevelled hair under his turban and a long, unkempt beard of the “Islamic fundamentalist”. In a word, Mr. Hyde.

Ahmed al-Sharaa is visibly someone else. He began to present himself to the world during an interview offered to him by the CIA’s unofficial station, Radio Voice of America, and for which he was equated with the “Western”, a little hastily, it must be said. On that occasion, the butcher now known as the “interim president” of Syria clumsily composed the figure of a “statesman” ready for “peace”, ready to defend a democratic society in which the rights of ethnic and religious minorities, millennial communities that represent the very multifaceted national essence of the country, would be guaranteed. It is in the role of al-Sharaa that al-Jolani now walks outside his country’s borders to receive the tributes, thanks and promises of generous support from the main world leaders, always obsessively committed to the “war on terror”. In the recent meeting he had with French President Emmanuel Macron, at the Elysee Palace, al-Sharaa even established with his host a platform for “coordination in the fight against terrorism”. In other words, Dr. Jekyll.

“Young, attractive and virile”

Dressed as al-Sharaa, while the “Islamic” mercenaries commanded by al-Jolani continue their slaughter operations against the Alawite, Druze and Christian civilian communities — abandoned by “Christian and Western civilization” — the Syrian “interim” president travelled to Saudi Arabia, his cradle in the art of terrorism, to meet Donald Trump. “A young, attractive and virile guy,” this is how the U.S. president portrayed him, perhaps embezzled by the Armani suit he wore, in contrast to the expensive T-shirt, with a fascist brand and signature but with a shallow appearance that another terrorist, Zelensky, presented at the White House.

Tutor and protégé exchanged a warm handshake in Riyadh in the presence of the real head of the ever-democratic Saudi regime, Mohammed bin-Salman, the organizer of the meeting. Left behind, as you can see, are the minor quarrels that Washington raised when bin Salman had the American citizen and journalist Jamal Khashoggi, also a CIA agent, kidnapped in Turkey and dismembered into easily dispersed pieces. Everything was forgotten and buried in the past, with the remains of the poor creature.

Trump promised al-Sharaa and his coup regime to lift all the economic sanctions that the United States imposed on the government of Bashar Assad, an executive that was legitimately in office according to constitutional mechanisms and according to mass participatory elections — but tainted with the original sin of having produced results contrary to Western “wishes”. Therefore, by definition, the elections were a swindle; on the contrary, the “interim” government resulting from a terrorist war imposed on Syria from the outside in is the guarantor of the restoration of democracy and stability in the country, according to the most influential Western leaders. This government should be exempt from sanctions so that “a new beginning” is possible, Trump declared in Saudi Arabia. A “beginning” that, however, should not disturb the continuity of some productive activities, as is the case with the theft of oil from the Syrian people by the United States of America.

“He’s a true leader, he led an offensive and he’s incredible,” the U.S. president testified, surrendered. “He has the possibility to do a good job and to remain calm” in Syria. Calmness is certainly al-Jolani’s most commendable attribute.

A few weeks ago, Washington lifted the accusation of “terrorist” that officially hung over the Syrian coup president, although the decision is silent on the validity or not of the reward of 10 million dollars promised to whoever captures him. It is understandable that, despite this, Trump has sealed with a handshake the recognition of the political functions of his “attractive” interlocutor. The arrest warrant was issued against al-Jolani and not al-Sharaa, let there be no misunderstandings or any malicious insinuations.

Premiere at the Elysée Palace

It became known a few days ago that al-Sharaa had sent a letter to Trump asking him to exercise his good offices so that a “normalization” of relations between Syria and Israel is possible.

The subject is music to the ears of the American president: it removes another major obstacle to the realization of the extermination of the Palestinian people — starting with the cleansing of the Gaza “Riviera” — opens the way for the transformation of Syria into a platform of constant threat, or even war, against Iran and expands the Zionist power, that is, imperial and of the “free world”. about Western Asia. A step that thus facilitates the much desired and strategic understanding between not one but the “two democracies” of the Middle East: Israel and Saudi Arabia. This demonstrates how useful and civilizing the so-called “Islamic” terrorist organizations, namely al-Qaeda and Isis, have been as instruments of Western interests and armed wings of NATO.

Al-Sharaa had earlier raised the subject of the “normalization” of relations with Israel during the meeting that the French president granted him at the Elysee Palace, an event that seems to have embarrassed the situationist propaganda apparatus, since it did not benefit from the deserved publicity. Now with the endorsement of the head of the empire, even if it is Trump, everything will be cleared and frank. Al-Sharaa became one of “ours”.

The visit to the Elysée was a premiere, a real test of fire for the occasional transfiguration of the terrorist al-Jolani into the statesman and diplomat al-Sharaa.

Wearing the Armani suit and after a visit to Jean Louis David to trim his beard and hair in the most famous male coiffeur in Paris, the “interim” Syrian president landed in the heart of the Fifth French Republic where he was received by the little cabin boy of the Rothschilds. Macron presented himself in a suit of the same shade of blue and did not disguise a certain admiration when looking at the Arab man he had in front of him. He avoided verbalizing the adjective “attractive” that Trump was unable to contain; However, adding the welcoming style to the fruits of the conversation, it is clear that the French president stayed there with a friend for life. It would seem that al-Sharaa and al-Jolani, apart from the difference in uniforms, could be one and the same person.

Emmanuel Macron expressed to the visitor a certain fear for what he thought was Trump’s restraint in the face of the situation in Syria, since he had not yet recognized the new regime. Unfounded concerns, as was realized shortly afterwards through the events in Riyadh. The French president promised al-Sharaa to make efforts with not only the European Union but also the United States to achieve a “gradual lifting” of sanctions and to stop any intention by Washington to withdraw the occupation troops it is illegally maintaining in Syria. After all, it turns out that there is complete harmony between the two sides of the Atlantic, sanctions will be lifted and troops will stay.

Formalists may argue that Macron does not represent the European Union because perhaps the bewildered group of 27 has not yet fully internalized the very favourable cost-benefit ratio of the coup, terrorist and segregationist strategy set up to destroy powerful states, such as the Syrian one.

Formalistic reservations, however, would have no reason to exist because liberal democracy continues to strengthen itself and strategically expand its capacities to exercise ever more firm and discretionary power by integrating the concepts of terrorism, racism and genocide into its heritage of values. The result may be increasingly authoritarian, but nothing that blurs the glow of the democracy in which we are struggling.

Moreover, Brussels had already shown signs of having accepted the new situation in Syria without embarrassment. As early as January 2025, a month after the terrorist mercenaries’ assault on Damascus was consummated, the foreign ministers of France and Germany, then Jean-Noel Barrot and Annalena Baerbock, travelled to the Syrian capital on behalf of the European Union to meet with the brand-new “interim” president.

At the Elysée, al-Sharaa called on France to “guarantee support for the fragile Syrian stability” and “help restore order and rebuild a country devastated by 14 years of war”, a situation for which al-Jolani was largely responsible but which has also been left behind, buried in the rubble and in the past, like hundreds of thousands of innocent human beings.

The Syrian visitor agreed with Macron on “anti-terrorist coordination”, and it is expected that the targets of this operational convergence will continue to be the defenceless Alawite, Druze and Christian civilian communities, victims of massacres committed under the pretext of fighting the remnants of the Syrian National Army.

Al-Sharaa also addressed in Paris what seems to be his priority objective: the “normalization of relations” with Israel. It is true that the Zionist military apparatus bombs Syrian territory on a daily basis, including Damascus, and occupies vast areas of the south, far beyond the Golan Heights. And we know what happens when the Zionist state occupies neighbouring territories. In a first phase, according to official statements, Tel Aviv demands that these territories “be demilitarized”.

None of this, however, discourages the “interim” president of Syria: “there are indirect negotiations with Israel through mediators to reduce tensions and avoid losing control”. By continuing the daily war of attrition, Israel is only raising the price of a forthcoming deal, but it could well save ammunition and human lives, even if this is no hindrance: the al-Sharaa/al-Jolani “government” will not be able to surrender to Zionism any more than it has already surrendered.

Following the thread of recent history, one understands the rather somewhat obsessive attitude of the lord of Damascus towards the Zionist state. Deep down, after all, he is grateful to him and does not forget those who have always helped him. At the peak of the terrorist operations against Syria, Israel said it was present when it became necessary to evacuate wounded “Islamist” mercenaries to field hospitals set up in the occupied Golan Heights or even to hospitals inside Israel.

Al-Jolani/al-Sharaa certainly has in his memory, like many of us, the images recorded during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s sympathetic and affectionate hospital visits to the wounded al-Qaeda and Isis terrorists. The behaviour aroused some timid reservations in the United States. The Wall Street Journal contacted an “Israeli military source” on the subject, who explained himself as follows: “We do not ask who the wounded are or research their origins; As soon as they are discharged, we send them to the border to go on their way.” Less pragmatic was another “senior Israeli political leader” quoted by the US press and according to which “a defeat of al-Qaïda” in Syria would be “a disaster” for Israel. Fortunately for Zionism and “Western civilization,” al-Qaida has not been defeated.

From a democratic, Western and civilising perspective, it can be said, in relation to Syria, that all is well that ends well. The same must be remembered with regard to Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, without forgetting Palestine. The use of terrorist groups and regimes has proved to be a Columbus’ egg, a winning strategy in the unquestionable purposes of consolidating liberal democracy. The slaughter of millions of human beings, whether in Syria, Palestine, Ukraine and other countries completely devastated by war, is a price worth paying, as the very human Madeleine Albright said about the slaughter of innocents — 500,000 children — as a result of the economic sanctions against Iraq. After all, it is the defence of “our civilisation” and “our values” that is at stake. As is customary for those who are always right, the ends justify the means, undoubtedly a founding principle of liberal democracy.