Alik Bahshi
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Alik Bahshi
Russians have played too much
Russians have played too much
President Putin, who decided to transfer his experience of the St. Petersburg hooligan to the field of international relations, and, thereby violating the established world order, has clearly crossed the line. The initial indulgence of Western democracies to the tricks of a political hooligan, finally, after his repeated daring chemical attack in Great Britain, was replaced by a determination to stop the presumptuous revanchist of the Russian variety. Following in Hitler's footsteps, Putin inevitably began to repeat his mistakes. Eastern wisdom says: a wise man makes no mistakes, a smart man makes mistakes only once, and a fool is distinguished by his unwavering persistence in making mistakes. After two major mistakes related to Russia's aggression against Georgia and Ukraine, Putin got involved in the Syrian tangle, hoping to get at least some strategic dividends in exchange for those lost by Moscow under Gorbachev. Having imagined himself the master of the Middle East region, Putin twice ignored Turkey's warnings about air border violations and learned a lesson (1), having taken offense at the downed plane with Turkish tomatoes. And although after this incident Russian bombers no longer fly over the Turkish border, the lesson did not do any good, because the hooligan, considering the incident with Turkey a private matter, decided to test the strength of the Americans by sending the Wagner private military company to win back oil fields in the Euphrates Valley for the Syrian dictator and was wrong again. What came of this venture is well known - the Americans chopped up the Wagnerites like cabbage. Putin had no choice but to silently swallow the insult. It must be said that the Americans even went so far as to inform Assad about the upcoming missile strike on military airfields and carry out strikes in complete silence of the ally, who seemed to have pledged to protect the dictator. It is unclear why the Russians installed the vaunted S-300, if not to shoot down everything that violates Syrian airspace. By the way, Israeli pilots regularly carry out missile and bomb strikes from time to time and they don’t give a damn about the presence of Russian troops in Syria. The Kurds do the same, having effectively formalized the eastern part of Syria as their future state. The northwestern province of Idlib is controlled by the Turkish army. The country is inexorably rolling towards disintegration (2) and this process cannot be stopped. In this regard, one should not expect sober steps from Putin. Putin’s Russia in Syria will suffer the same shameful fate that the Soviet Union experienced in Afghanistan on the eve of its disappearance.
It seems that Putin can no longer stop the series of mistakes that are punished by economic sanctions. Here we have the downing of Malaysian airliner flight MH-17 (3), the Skripal case (4), brazen interference in the American presidential election (5), the doping scam for which Russia was kicked out of the Olympic Games (6), the murder of journalists, and the reprisals against political rivals (Navalny). But Putin's biggest blunder is that, while rattling his sabre and bragging about new super-missiles with a nuclear engine, he deployed Iskander medium-range missiles in the Kaliningrad region, thereby violating the treaty banning such systems in Europe, which led to Trump intending to bury this important treaty. The rejection of this important agreement on medium-range missiles will inevitably return the world to the state of the Second Cold War. Russia has already lost one, being much less dependent on the Western economy than now, and there are no prerequisites that Russia will not lose this one too, this time having finally disintegrated as an empire.
Anticipating defeat and bringing Russia to the brink of an economic abyss, the revanchist Putin voiced a threat with the words: "Why do we need a world in which there will be no Russia" (
), thereby raising a nuclear club over the planet. The shepherd of the "Russian world" (7) instead of the pension program they hated offered his people an alternative option - Paradise, which is ultimately the same thing, reassuring the people that the rest of Humanity will end up in Hell. I described this outcome three years ago in the article "Nuclear nightmare as the only path of the Russian Fuhrer" (8), which, unfortunately, turned out to be a terrible reality.
1. The Russians have played too much. https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/26077.html
2. The Many Colors of the Syrian Revolution. https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/37831.html
3. MH-17, or Russia in Lies. https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/30277.html
4. The Empire of Lies, or How the Skripals Broke Putin's Bonds. https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/40578.html
5. Putin's Hand in the White House. https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/124179.html
6. The Russian Empire in the Results of the Olympics, or Sports and Politics. https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/29551.html
7. Putin - the Shepherd of the "Russian World". https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/36544.html
8. Nuclear nightmare as the only way for the Russian Fuhrer. https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/24473.html
10/30/18