
“Russia blows Aleppo along with civilians and a democratic opposition opposing Tiran Assad,” - this is the approximate message of most Western media.
I am not a fan of the Kremlin’s policy, but let me tell you that in this case we are informed of the completed lies.
To begin with: the Kremlin will not bomb Aleppo .
Moscow and Damascus are bombing East Aleppo , under the control of the rebels.
There are 250-300 thousand people in East Aleppo (according to the rebels). Do you know how much are in West Aleppo, under the control of government forces? Million four thousand thousand.
A million four hundred are not a government figure. This is the figure reported by Rami Abdul Rahman - the head of the surgery Syrian Observator for Human Rights, which has just accused the Russian troops of the murder of 3804 peaceful Syrians.
You ask: where did you get so much in the front -line city in which shells fly? Answer: They fled from the districts of the rebels. Residents of Western Aleppo are now primarily internal refugees. These refugees fled from the liberators. There are no refugees who escaped to the liberators in Syria.
Even before Putin and Assad began the assault on East Aleppo, the opposition continuously fired at its western part. According to the same Rami Abdul Rahman, in August, hundreds of home -made howitzer shells were released in the civilian population of the Western Aleppo. They killed 178 civilians, of which 52 children.
How is such a fantastic mortality? Why do homemade shells kill more than advanced Russian bombs? The answer gives the same Rami Abdul Rahman. According to him, this is explained by the higher population density in Western Aleppo.
Question: If Moscow and Damascus cease to shell East Aleppo, what - the world will reign in Syria? Or will homemade bombs break in West Aleppo?
The West claims that Moscow destroys a moderate Muslim opposition in Aleppo, and the Kremlin claims that it destroys Islamic terrorists in Aleppo.
I dare to assume that Putin and Assad to truth are much closer than the West. I have no doubt about the existence of peaceful Muslims in Syria and even supporters of democracy: in the end, the country has recently been a secular dictatorship. Just the existence of a “moderate opposition” in Aleppo is in no way confirmed by experimental data.
The parish of the "moderate opposition" in Aleppo began with terrorist attacks. On February 10, 2012, two cars with suicide bombers exploded at military intelligence and security services. The reaction of the Western media mainly came down to the fact that the Syrian regime blew itself up in order to compromise a peaceful opposition.
In July 2012, the opposition captured Aleppo as a result of an armed assault. Despite all his sympathy for the rebels, the Guardian journalist Martin Chulov was forced to note that the militants who captured Aleppo, only three thousand people, that many of them are professional jihadists from all countries of the world. Residents fled from the city, and even among those who remained, openly the militants welcomed "only a few." “70% of the residents of the liberated Aleppo is still on the side of the regime,” Chulov reported with regret.
The reason why the inhabitants of the liberated Aleppo showed such a political irresponsibility, who upset the Guardian journalist, is very simple. Imagine that you are an opponent of the Kremlin regime. And one fine day, looking out the window, you find that Moscow is captured by foreign jihadists; That they burst into apartments on behalf of Allah, rob shops, put the infidels to the wall, eat parts of government soldiers on the video, sell captive girls and turn them into sexual slaves. Ah, yes - and they are against the Kremlin too. And who will you be in this situation for?
The average level of wrestlers for faith in the world is the same. It is - or a small punks, who recognized in prison that now you can rob and kill for a reason, but in the name of Allah; Or are these losers for whom Kalashnikov’s automatic machine becomes the only social elevator, or, finally, the most sad option is normal people who are confronted with a choice in a civil war: either they are robbed and killed, or they rob and kill. In Aleppo against Assad, approximately the same contingent is fighting that he is fighting for Russia in the Donbass.
For a year and a half of the dominance of militants, Aleppo suffered the fate of Donetsk. The city was completely looted. Everything that can be taken to scrap metal was taken out and sold to Turkey. In December 2012, the militants of the Jabhat al-Nusra sitting in Aleppo ( the organization is prohibited in the Russian Federation. - Ed. ) Promised to shoot down civilian airliners. In February 2014, the Islamic Front ( the organization is prohibited in the Russian Federation. - Ed. ) With triumph, he announced the destruction of the largest historical monuments of the city, including the Palace of Justice, the old building of the city council, the Bolshoi Seral Aleppo, the mosque of Hushruvius, etc.
In April 2013, both of his Christian bishops were abducted in Aleppo. Those Christians who remained in the city (and before the war in Aleppo lived 20% of Christians), formed self -defense units who are fighting on the side of Assad. In the same way, residents of the two nearby town and NUBUs fought against the liberators. Most of the towns were Shiites, and they understood that in the event of their “liberation”, they were waiting for a universal massacre.
The towns survived; As a small garrison of government troops survived, setting in Aleppo prison. You ask: how can a small garrison, devoid of everything, can withstand for a year and a half? Very simple: if your opponents are cut with each other; They rob, chop their heads to be wrong and wrap women in a hijab - they are not up to the armed garrison.
“Aleppo is hunger and Islam,” wrote Francesca Borri, journalist of the ultralliberal guardian in November 2013, in her article. She went to Aleppo to look at the newborn Syrian democracy and saw (to her surprise) women wrapped from head to toe, and fanatics cutting each other in the name of Allah.
“To the right are boys with toy“ Kalashnikovs ”, to the left are girls, already with their faces closed,” Borry wrote, ““ Jihadists are walking around with their beards, jellabs and suicide belts. In July, Mohammeda Kattaa was executed for incorrectly used the name of the Prophet. He was 15 years old. "
Groups that fight Aleppo differ from ISIS prohibited in Russia only in that they have a different leadership. The structure of the anti -Asadian opposition is a chain of religious offshores, behind which real owners are hidden. Through these offshores, Saudi, Turkish and even American weapons, the Islamic Front and Fatam al-Sham go.
“The leader of Al-Qaeda, Ayman Az-Zawakhiri, supports the opposition in Syria,” Hilary Clinton said six months ago, “do we support al-Qaeda in Syria?” Hamas supports the opposition. Are we supporting Hamas in Syria? "
What Russian aviation does is understandable: it endures terrorists from the city with civilians, just like in 2008 she expelled Georgian troops from Tskhinvali along with the civilian population remaining in the city. The Russian army is fighting with the grace of the iron: and this is the only effective way to use its aviation.
Another thing is incomprehensible: what alternative tactics can be used when the militants who have captured part of the city are hiding behind the civilian population? In addition, the fact that “250-300 thousand inhabitants” remained in the East Aleppo, we know only from the words of the militants themselves, interested in exaggeration.
Pictures from East Aleppo (for example, making a splash of a shelling boy sitting in complete solitude in the back seat of a brand new medical car) are obviously stagnant and clearly indicate the existence of a well -functioning Islamic propaganda machine, which has long been using the Western media. For some reason, the same pictures, only from Western Aleppo, do not cause any interest.
I would love to agree with the thesis that terrorists should be knocked out with point blows. But here is the problem: when Israel does this in Gaza, neither Islamist propaganda, nor the Western media stops this. Hamas terrorists, hiding behind women and children, still turn out to be innocent sufferers, and the Israelis, whom they want to erase from the face of the earth, still turn out to be bloody aggressors.
This does not mean at all that I approve of the actions of the Kremlin. Exactly the opposite. Help in Syria, the Kremlin made two catastrophic mistakes.
Firstly, he intervened in the fourth world war going between the West and Islam. The consequences of this intervention for Russia, with its vast Muslim population and rotten law enforcement system, are scary even to predict.
Secondly, the Kremlin gave the West a wonderful opportunity to explain who was to blame for the fact that everything did not go so in Syria. How who? Of course, the Kremlin! The Kremlin gave the West a wonderful opportunity to explain what happened to the “moderate Islamic opposition”-PR-fantom, which existed only on the pages of The Washington Post and Guardian. How what? It was destroyed by Moscow, otherwise she would have overthrew Assad for a long time, and Syria would now move along the path of progress and democracy with seven -mini steps.
Aleppo bombing destroy Russia's chances for any agreement with the West and involve Russia in the war with the Islamic world. They threaten new economic sanctions, a new turn of the economic crisis and the complete isolation of Russia. In return, Russia does not receive any . Neither the territory, nor strategic advantages, no influence. The only beneficiary of these bombing is Bashar Assad. He is a net-concern. We are a gross loser.
However, this does not cancel the fact that Moscow and Damascus are not bombing, not all of Aleppo, but only its eastern part; that the Islamists who have settled in this eastern part are covered by women and children and in the same way without analysis are shelling the civilian population; And that this civilian population, voting his feet, obviously chose between the dictatorship of the Islamists and Assad.
(The editors may not share the point of view of the observer)