Filip Dewinter, the Belgian fascist MEP, seen here happy in the company of the Russian butchers of Aleppo during his visit to the devastated Syrian city at the beginning of February. Last May Dewinter spoke at the Trump-supporting far-right American Renaissance conference on: “The Islamisation of Europe. How Europe becomes an Islamic State”. He is also associated with Stephen Bannon, Trump’s top strategic adviser, who Trump has insisted has a place on the National Security Council, the members of which are usually generals and heads of security organisations.

Dewinter has previously met President Assad. Such meetings reinforce the cooperation between bloody dictators like Assad, the Russians, and their friends in the USA and the European far right including the UK.