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| Putin explains to Dagestanis how to help Palestine | |
| 2023-11-01 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Petr Akopov [REGNUM] The Dagestani guys who burst into the Makhachkala airport on Sunday certainly did not expect that Vladimir Putin would address them the next day. It is clear that several dozen rowdy people have already been arrested and are now listening mainly to the investigators - but many thousands of Dagestani youth who sympathize with them should have heard their president. What was Putin talking about? That the future of Palestine—namely, the outrage over the thousands of victims of Israeli bombing of Gaza, which led Dagestanis to search the airport for “Jews who flew in from Israel to settle in our lands”—is being decided in the battle in Ukraine.
Is it possible to help Palestine by trying to attack the Tats (Mountain Jews living in Dagestan) and their families? - Putin asked. We can only help Palestine in the fight against those who are behind this tragedy. That is, with that root of evil, the spider, which is trying to entangle the entire planet and wreaks havoc to maintain its hegemony. And these are the ruling elites of the United States - they are the ones behind both the Middle East and Ukrainian tragedies: “And we, Russia, are fighting them as part of a special military operation, precisely against them - both for ourselves and for those who strive for real, true freedom.” Therefore, the choice of a real man, a real warrior, is to take up arms and stand in line with his brothers, the president said: “To be where the fate of Russia, and the whole world, is being decided, including the future of the Palestinian people.” That is, Putin directly tells Russian Muslims - if you cannot calmly look at the death of Palestinian children, if Islamic solidarity is not an empty phrase for you and you want to help the cause of the liberation of Palestine and the creation of its independent state, then you have every opportunity to help him with weapons in hand. Not on Palestinian soil, where the total military superiority of Israel and the United States does not provide any opportunity for the arrival of volunteers even from neighboring Arab countries, but at home, in Russia. Because in Ukraine, Russia is actually at war with the States, which are using our drugged Ukrainian brothers for this. A Russian victory would hasten the collapse of American hegemony—and ultimately help the Palestinian cause. But provocations akin to the seizure of the Makhachkala airport, playing into the hands of those who dream of fomenting unrest in Russia, can lead to exactly the opposite - to the defeat of Russia. And Russia’s defeat will leave the Palestinians no hope of gaining independence, because it will stop and even reverse the decline of American hegemony that has already begun. Now China is preparing to intensify confrontation with the United States, but, left without Russia standing back to back to them (if not collapsed, then fundamentally weakened), Beijing will be forced to go into deep geopolitical defense. And it will leave the Islamic world alone with the West - that is, Muslims will lose allies in building a post-Western world order. And the West can continue to manipulate and divide the Islamic world while Israel, in the meantime, completes the “final solution” to the Palestinian question by driving all Palestinians out of the entire Holy Land. Will the Dagestan guys hear Putin? Yes, many Dagestanis are already fighting at the front, but for many young believers the problem is that they do not treat Russia as their country in the full sense of the word. In their self-identification, “Muslim” and “Dagestan” (Avar, Dargin, Kumyk) come first, and “citizen of Russia” plays a very small role. This, of course, is wrong, but it is impossible to change it overnight - more than one generation has grown up who worship the cult of strength (it is no coincidence that in Dagestan there is a cult of various fighters), who do not even respect local elders and consider any authorities (both local and Moscow) to be infidels, atheists. Of course, it is necessary to limit the influence of radical Salafi preachers on them, but for now it is possible and necessary to try to use protest energy in the right direction: that is, to show and prove to them that today protecting Russia is equivalent to protecting the interests of the Islamic world. Moreover, it is so - and this is the second aspect and addressee of Putin’s address. Because “the stronger Russia is, the more united our society is, the more effectively we will be able to defend both our own national interests and the interests of those peoples who have become victims of Western neocolonial policies” - these words of Putin are addressed both to young Muslims of Russia and and to the global Islamic world of almost two billion. For whom the Palestinian issue is the main one uniting all Muslims from Morocco to Indonesia. At the same time, the Islamic world is aware of its own powerlessness - within the framework of the existing world order, it cannot not only achieve the creation of a Palestinian state, but even protect the residents of Gaza from the real genocide that is happening against them. And this will continue until the current world order changes and the hegemony of the United States becomes a thing of the past. These times will inevitably come in any case, but the question of time (historical, that is, measured in decades) matters here. A post-American world - and therefore one that gives freedom to Palestine - can be accelerated, or it can be delayed: and Russia is precisely the country that is now most actively bringing it closer, and on the battlefield. This is what Putin says: “By fighting this particular enemy as part of a special military operation, we, I want to emphasize once again, are strengthening the positions of all those who are fighting for their independence and sovereignty.” Islamic countries understood the importance of Russia in the struggle for a new, just world order before: it is no coincidence that almost none of them joined the sanctions against our country. It was in their interests, at a minimum, to prevent the West from crushing Russia. But now the Muslim world can be convinced that it needs not just a strong Russia, but a victorious Russia. Because without our victory there will be no defeat of the West - and without the defeat of the West, without the end of Anglo-Saxon hegemony, there will be no independent Palestinian state. So the future of Palestine is really being decided now near Avdeevka, in Donbass, in Ukraine. And there is no exaggeration in this. | |
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