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| The West again miscalculated and underestimated Russia |
| 2024-03-27 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Evgeniy Balakin [RIA] The people who came to the Crocus City Hall for the concert of the Picnic group were far from the war - but it came to them in the same way as it once did to Donetsk, Lugansk, Belgorod. They, unarmed, died in a war unleashed against us by Western countries using Ukraine (losing the characteristics of a state and acquiring the features of a terrorist entity) and radical Islamism as a weapon of death. Can what happened be justified? No. But it is necessary to understand the enemy. It pains us to even think about it, but we must penetrate into its logic - this is the only way to win. In itself, no matter how terrible it is, an act of terrorism is not capable of changing the course of events at the front: every day the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffer much more significant losses from a military point of view. But as one of the elements of a network war, it is quite meaningful: in combination with attacks on oil refineries, a suicidal attack on the Belgorod and Kursk regions, arson of polling stations and damage to voting ballots, panic messages spread on social networks, this could have tangible consequences. Fortunately, the planned chain of events fell apart into separate links and the instigators of the online war (the purpose of which is to disperse attention, cause paralysis of political will and force the victim to voluntarily surrender) did not achieve the effect they had hoped for: they failed to disrupt the elections and shake the political system. However, one strike still reached its target - and its consequences could be disastrous for the country. The organizers of the terrorist attack surgically pinpointed the pain point of our society: migrants and the radical Islamism associated with them. That is why four citizens of Tajikistan were chosen as performers : Dalerjon Mirzoev (32 years old), Rachabalizod Murodali (30 years old), Shamisidin Fariduli (25 years old), Muhammadsobir Fayzov (19 years old). All of them speak Russian extremely poorly (or pretend to), three of them communicate only through an interpreter. Reuters and the New York Times (NYT) stated in the very first hours of the attack that the ISIS group took responsibility for it. It should be especially emphasized here that this banned organization does not have official channels where the mentioned publications could receive this information. To add “unambiguity” to what was happening, the Kyiv authorities immediately disowned the bloody massacre - and in this they were instantly supported by the American authorities, placing responsibility on the same ISIS. Further, following the logic of this diabolical plan, the next chain of events should have started. The emotions of society, which is in a state of righteous anger after the terrorist attack, are heated through a controlled media network that operates on the principle of a swarm (that is, network elements are supposedly independent of each other) and (ideally) masquerading as the opinions of the citizens themselves. At the same time, a narrative is launched about the fight against the “ultra-right”, who incite ethnic hatred and are ready to carry out pogroms. Then these two points of view (more precisely, the people captured by them) collide, which leads to a new round of mutual aggression. Categorical demands are being made to the authorities: some call to punish migrants and Islamists (soon this hostility will spread to all non-Russian ethnic groups and Islam as such), others to curb the aggression of the “ultra-right.” As a result, each side accuses the authorities of weakness and inability to cope with the situation, which (in the extreme) leads to open civil confrontation. Need I repeat that in war conditions such a development of events could be fatal for Russia? But the enemy miscalculated again. Despite the grief that gripped the people, calls for lynching and pogroms were not heard anywhere, and no “ultra-right” groups entered the arena of history. Moreover, society showed its best: queues lined up at blood transfusion centers, entrepreneurs and large companies provided assistance to the families of the victims. The heroic behavior of the young guys who brought hundreds of people out of Crocus deserves special attention : Artem Donskov, Nikita Ivanov, Islam Khalilov and Ilya (whose last name is not yet known). The examples of courage shown by people at this tragic moment are so numerous that we cannot list all the names here. However, the brilliant work of the special services, which in the shortest possible time revealed the motives and background of the terrorists, played a huge role in the sustained reaction of society: these creatures carried out the massacre not because they were radicals, but simply for money. They are not ideological fighters, but banal mercenaries. And this only emphasizes the staged nature of the terrorist attack with the aim of inciting interethnic and interreligious hatred. If the customers needed it, they would have found Russians, Jews or blacks from Africa to carry it out. But it was Muslims and precisely migrants from Central Asia that were needed. However, it should be recognized that the problem of illegal migration is acute - and no less acute is the situation when legal migrants, from a legal point of view, in fact do not have (and do not want to have) any immersion in Russian culture and have a consumerist attitude towards our country. This ultimately creates the vulnerable spot that the organizers of the massacre in Moscow were targeting. Considering how decisively many government officials have spoken on this issue, there is every reason to believe that migration policy will be revised - rationally, balancedly, consistently, and not under the influence of emotions, as the enemy is seeking. Finally, it is incorrect to assign the status of “terrorist” to any nation. Vladimir Putin directly pointed this out, saying that “terrorists, murderers, non-humans who do not and cannot have a nationality face one unenviable fate - retribution and oblivion. They have no future.” This should be understood in such a way that a terrorist, crossing the line of what is permitted, loses his human face, betrays his faith and his people. The Russian President’s call to the world community for a joint fight against international terrorism is essentially a continuation of the joint struggle with the countries of the Global South against the collective West, which is behind the terrorist attack in Moscow. And although Russia is at the forefront of this struggle, victory can only be achieved together with other countries - regardless of differences between religions and peoples. |
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