
What is happening now in the Middle East is very reminiscent of a gap between the first and Second World Wars.
Then the world was also divided in two. But not on the power of evil and the power of good, but on the power of evil and idiots.
On the one hand was Stalin. Sauron, who consistently turned his country into a military machine to conquer the world and sequentially, through the Comintern and other agents of influence, destroyed Western democracy from the inside. Stalin purchased weapons in the West, accused the West of aggression against the “peaceful USSR” and explained to everyone that the USSR is an exceptionally peaceful state, but the world bourgeois will necessarily strike him, and then!
And on the other hand, there were, alas, by no means Gandalf and Frodo, but idiots. Which sold Sauron samples of military equipment and came across resolutely into all political and ideological traps placed by them.
Democracy does not like to fight at all. The money spent on the war is much better to distribute to voters, and in addition, presidents rightly do not trust the generals. Democracy are poorly adapted to geopolitics, because geopolitics is inconceivable without lies, intrigues and betrayals, and democracy cannot publicly lie and betray. The head of a democratic country cannot, like Stalin, today to brand Hitler, and tomorrow to sign a pact on the section of Europe.
In other words, totalitarianism is more effective than democracy in regarding lies and violence. However, democracy is more effective than totalitarianism in the economy, and this eventually turned out to be fatal for the USSR.
Now the situation is very similar.
There is a power of evil. This is the Islamic world that dreams of destroying the West and at the same time it is precisely accusing him of aggression against himself. This is the worst species of paranoid - an aggressor imagining himself a victim. The difference in comparison with the communist Sauron is primarily that the Islamic world is not one.
There is Ahmadinejad. This is a pure Islamic Hitler. Actually, for Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar, Ahamadinejad plays the same role as Hitler for Stalin: this is a scarecrow, thanks to the existence of which the United States is forced to defend the interests of Saudi Arabia.
There is al-Qaida. Al-Qaeda, like the Stalinist agents, very well realized that its main ally in the West is useful idiots-human rights and international organizations, sharpened since communist times under the destruction of the bourgeois state by divigitimization of its right to violence against terrorists and subversive elements.
There is Qatar and Saudi Arabia: a guarantee with huge ambitions, huge money and despotic oriental fantasies that reason very simply: "We can buy any Western policy, in extreme cases, hire any lobbyist."
Oddly enough, the position of the West in the Middle East can very often be explained by the fact that he does what Saudi Arabia needs. Not in the sense that there is a Western politician who understands that his country needs, but the Saudis come to him, bring a bag of money and say: "do the other way around." And the fact that there is no geopolitics in the West. A big game is not the entertainment of democracies. If you are up to the light bulb, why not do what a good friend asks for? So you come to the store and think: "Take cheese with or without holes?" In principle, it doesn’t matter. But then your friend says: "Take with holes." You take with holes.
And finally, there is Türkiye. Turkish Prime Minister Islamist Receps Erdogan openly headed for the revival of the Ottoman ports. In 1923, the great reformer Kemal Ataturk made Turkey a European country, banned the Arab alphabet and Arab clothes. Recep Erdogan makes Turkey a new Ottoman port.
This is a fact of great importance. At the beginning of the XX century. A sane reformer had no question of what to do to survive his country. "Do as in Europe." Now President Erdogan also has no question of what to do to survive his country. “To do, not like in Europe,” because now to imitate Europe - madness and suicide.
There is no crisis in the Turkish economy, it continues to grow. A healthy, efficient young population, simplifying the rules of doing business, encouraging entrepreneurship, a vision of Turkey as a leader of the Islamic world - this is all Erdogan. You have to be crazy in order to begin to produce lumpen and bureaucracy instead and import some Ethiopes with the words: “Oh, we once won them, we owe them.”
Here, in fact, is a new chessboard. On the one hand - forces (pl.) Evil, on the other - idiots, political correct democracies. The difference with the first half of the XX century. It consists in the fact that, firstly, as I said, this time there are many Saurons and their goals are different. The second difference is that, losing the advice on the effectiveness of violence, Western democracies won the advice on the efficiency of the economy. A lesson in the collapse of the USSR was that an effective economy defeated effective violence.
Unfortunately, now this is not so. The lumpenization of democratic countries and the payment of annuity voters by politicians went too far. Of course, it is not yet about the fact that the Turkish economy is more efficient than European. But we are already talking about the fact that the European economy cannot serve as an example and model.
In all major wars, the one who does not participate in them or participates in a minimum degree wins.
Therefore, Great Britain was the winner in the 30-year war, in the First and Second World War, the USA, and in the war between Islam and the West, China will be the winner.
As for the role of Russia in all this chaos, it is exceptionally third. In principle, the policy of the Russian authorities in Syria could describe this way: the Kremlin sincerely believes that according to the results of the war in Libya, the damned pindos threw him on grandmas and did not fulfill, which they promised. The question of what the Pindos can promise in a country where they kill their own ambassador does not honestly come to the Kremlin heads, because, like their Arab allies, the Kremlin sincerely believe that there is a large devil in the world and that he lives on a flour.
The most amazing thing is that all our oriental friends, starting with Iran and ending with the same Assad, really throw Putin every day and put him in an idiotic position before the UN or Washington. This is such a Middle Eastern game - “Throw Putin”. Promise him something to break into Washington with a cry: "I agreed with Assad, he will leave!" And he looked at the same time as a fool. Surprisingly - but Putin has no complaints about those who really throw him. But, on the other hand, in a situation where all parties act irrationally, why should Putin be rational?
In general, I would say that the Kremlin share all the crazy fantasies of the Islamists, not counting their sacrifice, because instead of Allah they believe in the loot. As a result, from Russia it turns out the devils that are evil, but without power.