
As Kun Tzu taught in the VI century BC, things should be given the right names. Especially in the war. “War with terrorism”, which is the pathos of such a pathos these days, Olland, Putin, Obama - this is the wrong, ridiculous, false political correct name.
Terrorism is not a certain military-political subject opposing the civilized world, but one of the methods of conducting military operations, used to one degree or another in any military conflict. Tamil Tigers in their struggle against the Central Government of Sri Lanka were very widely used, for example, Surri Lanka terrorists. Large -scale acts of terrorism were carpet bombing of city quarters during various wars. But it is clear that none of those who talk about "international terrorism" today mean neither the Tamil Tigers, nor the destruction from the air of Coventry, Dresden, Hiroshima, Grozny ...
Therefore, let's call things with the right names and talk about the extensive horizontal network structure of radical Islam (Al-Qaeda, Islamic State is its segments localized in time and space), which declared war on the West and uses terror, that is, the conscious mass killing of civilians. The network structure unites a certain general ideological matrix of the group that can independently arise in various regions, operating local problems and conflicts (as an Islamic state in Syria and Iraq). Instead of defeated cells, new ones appear, especially since the movement, as well as in financial resources, does not experience movement.
In terms of its goals and ideological attitudes, the challenge of radical Islam is total. Traditional terrorism was a "applied" craft. The subjects who used it achieved specifically outlined practical goals - the independence of some territory, the liberation of some criminals, political concessions, redemption, and so on. The terrorism of Islamists is a metaphysical terrorism that achieves the Absolute, the destruction of the godless West, the establishment of the kingdom of God on earth in the form of a universal caliphate. The goals are absurd and unreal, but attractive for thousands, and, perhaps, millions of fanatics. This ideology does not put forward any requirements, it is not concessions that requires the actors of world politics, but to complete death seriously.
And where is Russia with all this? With her Afghan adventure, Moscow seemed to do everything to direct the growing passionate energy of radical Islamists. But in an amazingly carried. Ayatollah Khomeini defined (though the USSR) as Satan-2. But either the collapse of the USSR removed the problem of Islamist radicals from the problem of Satan-2, or with animal instincts, they felt their social proximity to the Russian political "elite", which for the most part hated the West that won the Cold War.
One way or another, in the 1990s, the growing attacks of the Islamists were directed mainly against the West. The first Chechen war also changed anything in this situation. It was a classic conflict of the center with separatists (which are about a hundred in the world), not loaded with religious-ideological content. His official PR works was under the heading "Restoration of the constitutional order". The second war began as the most important instrument of the election campaign in Russia, as a rod of the operation "Heir" conceived by the Yeltsin environment. The spiritual “wet in the toilet” rallied ”the nation rising from his knees and turned a little -known official not only into the president of the country, but also into a national hero. This time the fight against terrorism, and not with some terrorism in general, namely with Islamic extremism, was chosen as a PR-collection.
The propaganda icebreaker, which brought Putin to the presidency, became the main instrument, for the next fifteen years, the road to the absolute economic and political power in the country broke down to him and his clan. The authorities so often repeated that it was fighting in the Caucasus with Islamic extremism ("international terrorism") that this became a self -exploring forecast. Islamic extremism was ordered - so he came. The nature of the behavior of the militants and the part of the population, especially the youth, has changed. The field commanders pursuing separatist goals were replaced by people who ideologically perceive themselves to part of the world jihad.
After each high -profile terrorist attack of the homegrown Islamic extremists, the Extraordinary powers of the president and power structures increased. The regime swelled by power in the country, like a bug of the blood of victims. And in each of these tragedies the ears of the same power structures were clearly stuck out as accomplices in crimes-both in the explosions of houses, and in Nord-Ost, and in Beslan, and in the Volgograd bus. And in Ryazan, two terrorists from the Central Office of the FSB were captured by the hand while trying to explode a residential building.
The "Stalin icebreaker" Adolf Hitler "was used exclusively for foreign policy purposes. The Kremlin Highlander has already solved all its domestic political tasks to the beginning of a large geopolitical game, becoming an absolute dictator." Putin's icebreaker "Radical Islam" was originally conceived mainly on the internal agenda. But Putin understood that his regime is completely different than Stalin, nevertheless, it cannot be durable without reformatting the surrounding space.
Firstly, the post-Soviet space should remain under the tough control of the Kremlin so that none of his countries can break out of the chain of post-communist thieves' Pahanats and become the same undesirable example for Russian citizens.
Secondly, the West must be so intimidated to such an extent, seduced, corrupted, so that he not only does not support the fugitives, but under escort he returned them back to the dominance zone of Russian Kleptocracy.
From the very first days, Putin did not forget about those foreign policy tasks that he had to solve him with the help of his icebreaker. He sought to sell himself to the West as an absolutely necessary defender from "radical Islam" and demand a political price for this roof. Here, for example, is a magnificent passage, from early Putin: “ Russian soldiers are today on the front edge of the struggle with Islamic extremism. Unfortunately, few people notice it. Today we are witnessing the creation of an extremist International on the so -called arc of instability, starting from the Philippines and ends with Kosovo. This is very dangerous for Europe, first of all, because there are a large number of Muslim population. This is really an international terrorist international, and in this sense, Russia stands in the front edge of the struggle with this international terrorism.
The Kremlin mafia in almost open text offers the West a roof from further terrorist attacks, but, of course, on its strict conditions
Fifteen years of stubborn propaganda efforts were not in vain, and finally, after the next attack in Paris, French President Hollande flies to Moscow to bow to the feet of those who, during difficult trials about all of them, thinks about them in the Kremlin. From the very first hours of the tragedy in Paris, which took place exactly the day before the Great Twenty summit in Turkey, all Kremlin propaganda with undisguised triumph was repeated by the same simple thesis : you see, we have terrible terrorists all threaten us all. For persuasiveness, the delayed grief of the dead in a plane crash over Sinai was removed from the sleeve and officially recognized, finally, the terrorist attack was subjected to Paris to create an image of a common fate: “We must unite in a single“ anti-Hitler coalition ”and forget about trifles such as Ukraine, which shares and prevents our military-political union.”
For example, the purely specific recommendations of the good investigator Sergei Markov: “It is urgent to stop the conflict between Russia and the West because of Ukraine. To replace the junta by the technical government, change the constitution, remove neo-Nazis, hold new free elections. The Kiev junta is one of the main obstacles to the joint struggle of the United States, the EU and Russia against terrorists.” And in the role of an evil investigator, a skeptical parliamentarian acted in a television program with Vladimir Solovyov, who "is not sure that the attack in Paris is enough to start talking with Putin." Blessed iPhone directly stated at a press conference in Manila that terrorist attacks in the EU and the rest of the world occur for the reason that the Western countries are ongoing for isolation of the Russian Federation.
"Russian appeal to the peoples of Europe"
The Kremlin mafia in almost open text offers the West a roof from further terrorist attacks, but, of course, on its strict conditions. The fact that Moscow has agents and has a certain influence in jihadist structures is no secret for a long time. This is the people who were recruited by the KGB along the line of "national liberation movements", and the Saddam officers who were studying in the USSR and today the personnel backbone of the Islamic State, and the young growth of the Caucasian warriors of Allah, carefully supplied by the FSB by foreign passports and sent to the Middle East.
But in a completely new light, relations in the triangle of Putin - Assad - “IG” after hysteria arranged by the Russian Foreign Ministry regarding the blow of our valiant French allies on oil infrastructure of terrorists are represented. Once again I take off my hat to Alexei Venediktov, forced to thump with ribbentrops for all sorts of sake of valuable information that he regularly transfers to civil society. Here is a fragment of the radio program:
" A. Venediktov: Who is the buyer? And I will tell you who is the buyer. Two buyers. One buyer is the private Turkish companies who buy on the borders or sometimes right there. And now, as I understand it, work with an Erdogan is going on. Private business - the zone is just forbidden. And the second buyer is Bashar Assad, who buys this on the legal market. Guys, what?
S. BUNTMAN: That is, you said, Bashar Assad is buying?
A. VENEDIKTOV: Yes. Syria government, Bashar Assad.
S. BUNTMAN: I just wanted to hear well.
A. VENEDIKTOV: Three days ago, President Putin at twenty in Turkey indignantly said that "Guys, why are you not bombing these same sources of financing, that is, these oil wells that are under ISIS, and truck caravans?" You can explain. Because no one bombed the territory of Syria at all. They say: here they bombed ... Who they bombed? They bombed in Iraq. The French are in Iraq. The first time the French began to bomb Syria on September 27 - three days before Russia began to bomb. So, for a second! We take and look. So, good. Why don't you bomb them? Yesterday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation indignantly states that we are against French aviation bombing ISIS oil mines. I thought so I had read.
S. BUNTMAN : What is motivated?
A. VENEDIKTOV: And because ISIS oil mines will go to Assad after the victory. And you will destroy them. Attention! - This is a public motive. Once again: a public motive, this is a public announcement. Right like this: "These will be released soon, and you destroy the infrastructure of the future government, the legal government of Syria." Guys, what are you talking about? What did our president say? And what are you talking about? "
Well, a bauble about evil Mids, who again brought the only European in Russia, a good king-beadrer, is an inevitable tribute to the rules of the game, into which Venediktov got involved. And the rest of you and the rebellion did not misheard: by paraphrasing the famous formula of Churchill, we can say that the whole Putin’s policy in Syria is a cynical lie, packed in impudent deception and covered with frank fraud.
At twenty, Putin publicly throws the accusation to the King of Saudi Arabia that he patronizes the terrorist oil business, even confirms him with operational "videos." But in fact, our dear friend, an irreconcilable fighter with Assad terrorism is the main beneficiary of this criminal business, and the Putin Foreign Ministry rushes to cover the candle (oil) factories of the Islamic State from allied French aviation. Assad, Putin and IG unite, it turns out, not only geopolitics, but also a joint business.
At the same time, Moscow accuses France of violating international law-the French did not receive either an invitation to the legitimate Assad, nor a resolution of the UN Security Council. But a day earlier, the same Sergey Lavrov and Vladimir Putin told in detail how they will from now on they will wet anyone in the Middle East and as they like without any invitations and resolutions, and exclusively due to their legal right to self -defense and retaliation guaranteed by the UN Charter. And the French, therefore, does not have such a right to self -defense?
The dispute of the subjects successfully economic in Syria will not interfere with the French Republic, however, to arrive in the Northern Kanosu to President Hollande on November 26 to discuss fateful issues of their safety. All political France - from Trotsky Melanshon to the fascist Le Pen - escorts him on this historical trip with the singing of Marseelusa. An almost ripened client will be accepted in Moscow with the highest honors. He will even be brought to the National Defense Management Center on Frunze Embankment. No, no, about irresponsible strikes on the joint oil business "IG", Assad and the Kremlin can not be a question. But Olland will give an opportunity to participate in the Operation "Retribution", pressing with Putin to some red button: "For Paris! For the gentleman of the Order of the Honorary Legion Timchenko! For the Motherland! For the Rotenbergs! Fire!"
Andrey Piontkovsky - political expert
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