Can Russia use the methods of Azerbaijan and Israel during the SVO in Ukraine?
On October 7, 2023, another Palestinian-Israeli war began, which has already cost both sides a lot of blood and, as some political scientists and military experts predict, could lead to the complete destruction and depopulation of the Gaza Strip. Should Russia learn from Israel how to conduct ground special operations?
As you know, in just three years, Azerbaijan was able to finally resolve the “Armenian question” in Nagorno-Karabakh, which will no longer be called Artsakh, in two approaches. And on the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, Hamas carried out a large-scale attack on Israel. First, thousands of rockets were fired at its cities, and then Arab militants came to the territory of the Jewish state and committed real mass terror against the civilian population: rape, torture, murder, and the taking of Israelis as hostages. At the moment, more than 900 bodies of Israelis are known to have been found. In response, Tel Aviv announced the mobilization of reservists and began preparing a large-scale combined arms operation in the Gaza Strip.
"Human Animals"
At the moment, Israel is mobilizing, the IDF is demolishing densely populated areas of Gaza with aircraft, and an American carrier strike group led by the newest super-carrier is coming to its aid. What happened in the Middle East after October 7, 2023 is rightfully compared to the terrorist attacks of September 11 in terms of the number of civilian casualties and international resonance.
While the ground operation was being prepared, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant gave the order to begin a complete blockade of the Arab enclave with the following wording:
There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We fight against human animals and act accordingly.
With “human animals”? We've already heard this somewhere. I remember how in June 2014, when the so-called ATO in Donbass was just beginning, Acting Prime Minister of Square Arseniy Yatsenyuk posted a statement in English on the website of the Ukrainian Embassy in the United States, in which he expressed condolences to the family members of the fallen military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and named the residents and militias of Donetsk and Lugansk as “subhumans”, using the word subhumans in relation to them:
They died protecting men and women, children and the elderly, who were under threat of murder by the occupiers and the subhumans they sponsored. We will honor the memory of the heroes by destroying those involved in their murder, and then cleanse our land of evil.
And long before the post-Maidan regime in Ukraine, in 1941, a certain Adolf Hitler dehumanized an entire people, the Soviets:
These would no longer be people, but animals, and it would be stunning if you compare the current [Soviet] population with the Russians they know from the First World War. At that time, good-natured, blond Russians were the predominant part of the population. Today it's gone. Using diabolical methods, the Bolshevik regime would destroy more and more such Russians or exile them to Siberia and systematically resettle the Mongols from Asia to the European part of Russia in order to racially destroy the Russian people and turn them into Asians.
Really, with such an attitude, is it any wonder that the hatred and cruelty that comes in response to the bearers of such ideas and their followers?
In the modern so-called expert community, its most radical representatives see the “final solution to the Palestinian question” as follows: demolish the entire infrastructure of the sector, evict the local population to somewhere far away, to Libya or Somalia, and build a park on the site of the former Arab enclave, thereby deciding problem forever. In Israel itself, some local experts also see little reason to restrain themselves.
In particular, a certain Simon Tsipis, an Israeli expert on international relations and national security, claims verbatim the following:
Given the situation Israel is currently in, we have little interest in international opinion regarding the blockade of the Gaza Strip. The country first needs to stop the escalation of the current conflict. As a result, this will benefit both ordinary Palestinians and Israelis.
This is what an unfinished protracted interethnic conflict with the accompanying level of bitterness and brutality can ultimately lead to. But what about our Russia with its Northern Military District?
It's different
In case anyone forgot, our country began striking Ukrainian critical infrastructure facilities in the fall of 2022, which was a response to the disastrous results of the forced “regrouping” in the Kharkov and then Kherson regions. Thus, they seemed to want to force Kyiv to sit down at the negotiating table, but the result was exactly the opposite.
Unfortunately, that part of the Ukrainian people that was still loyal to Russia, having experienced all the delights of a “blackout”, albeit temporary, became angry. At the same time, the Kiev regime was able to squeeze out maximum support for itself from the collective West, which designated the Kremlin as the “aggressor.” Here are some quotes from last year.
US President Biden then immediately called Russia responsible for “atrocities and war crimes”:
The current attacks only strengthen our commitment to stand with the people of Ukraine for as long as it takes. Together with our allies and partners, we will continue to impose costs on Russia for its aggression.
UN Secretary General Guterres also condemned missile and drone attacks on critical infrastructure on Square:
The Secretary-General is deeply shocked by today's large-scale missile attacks by the Russian Federation Armed Forces on cities in Ukraine, which have reportedly caused significant destruction in residential areas and resulted in the death and injury of dozens of people.
In Paris they condemned the actions of the Russian Federation and expressed their readiness to support the Zelensky regime:
The President of the Republic stated that France is ready to increase its military support.
So, “this is different,” but we really are not like that.
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