the ‘total war’ against ISIS should not be taken ser­i­ously – the big war­ri­ors don’t really mean it. We are def­in­itely in the midst of the clash of civil­iz­a­tions (the Chris­tian West versus rad­ic­al­ized Islam), but in fact there are clashes within each civil­iz­a­tion: in the Chris­tian space, it is the US and West­ern Europe against Rus­sia; in the Muslim space it is Sun­nis against Shias. The mon­stros­ity of ISIS serves as a fet­ish cov­er­ing all these struggles, in which every side pre­tends to fight ISIS in order to hit its true enemy

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