Racca is not Berlin

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Recently, it has reported that the Syrian troops, with the support of Russian VKS, began an attack on the city of Rakka, the capital of ISIS (the organization banned in Russia).

The decision on the start of the operation could hardly have been made somewhere else, except for the main office of the Moscow Kremlin. Putin's Russia in all seriousness believes that if we do not take Rakka, then the Americans will take it (although in fact there are no Americans and at all).

Putin needs Racca as a kind of victory symbol. As a kind of analogue of Berlin. Palmyra with a concert of the Gergieva Orchestra with Roldugin has not become enough. Putin hold phobias and complexes. I remember how in Soviet times they said that if we had not entered Afghanistan, the Americans would enter there. The same argument with Czechoslovakia. Now Putin says, if they had not entered the Crimea, NATO would have entered there. Absolute motive.

The entry of troops into Afghanistan turned into a disaster. Is Putin sure of a different outcome now? The Americans lured the Soviets to Afghanistan through cunning tricks, constantly creating the visibility of entering there, conducting various body movements in order to force the USSR to bring troops there. They said that the Americans were about to enter Afginistan, and this forced the members of the Politburo to make a reckless decision. The USSR was bogged down. Now something similar in Syria. We hear, the Americans are about to enter Rakka, and the winner’s laurels will go to them. Let's get ahead of them.

The USSR was lured to Afghanistan through manipulations and information stuffing. A few days before Putin-Asad, the news agency was distributed about the attack of the ISIS (*) of the pro-American coalition, the forces including the Kurdish militia and the Syrian opposition detachments, but there was no real offensive, it was more about the information attack.

But why do we need this rakka? It is not for us that Putin needs it as a symbol of Victory, from the standpoint of a successful conqueror, to hope to dictate the conditions for the whole world his conditions for the future structure of the universe. How Stalin tried to impose his vision of the post-war device in 1945. As you can see, it did not work. The current dictator will not work.

The capture of Rakka will not lead to the end of the war. This is not Berlin. If his capture led to the end of the war, then the capture of the capital ISIS (*) will not reduce the severity of the conflict, but only strengthen. And Berlin was taken faster.

Putin wages war at the expense of the people, at the expense of our salaries, pensions and benefits. For the sake of imperial ambitions and thirst for personal power.

Putin has been in power for 17 years. Longer than all other rulers. He missed a magnificent chance to turn Russia into a free, democratic and prosperous state. Instead of carrying out reforms, he draws Russia into endless wars and military and political conflicts and confrontation with unpredictable consequences. Putin is an extremely unsuccessful ruler. He is trying to prove the success of himself as the head of the state not by the transformations of the country, but as a conqueror. He dreams of being a great conqueror, but he does not succeed.

Russia Putin is not a great power! Any territory that falls under the control of the Kremlin becomes not the territory of stability and well -being, but a zone of war and violence. Therefore, even countries that were once considered completely pro-Soviet are shy from Putin Russia.

* The material is mentioned in the organization ISIS, whose activity is prohibited in the Russian Federation