Maria Zakharova, a spokesman for the Russian foreign Ministry called the operation in Mosul medieval massacre. That, of course, completely untrue and is not subject to any other interpretation. I have a question.
Indignant “Fe” the Russian foreign Ministry, unfortunately, has a purely practical value. Americans and the West have accused Russia of indiscriminate bombing of Aleppo, which, frankly, are not much different in character from a massacre in Mosul. The position of the Russian authorities in this question the opposite – aircraft works, but civilians are not bombed. Not a breath, followed by accusations of the militants, that they hide among civilians, exposing them to risk.
It is obvious that the concern for civilians of Mosul, awakened now our officials – it’s just a symmetric response to the accusations. No more. Concern about the civilian population – a tool with which to address current challenges. In the 14th year we were exceedingly concerned about the excesses of the Ukrainian executioners, but now no one remembers the thousands killed in the Donbas, burned in Odessa. Russian is now officially banned, soon the mere mention of this word will apply not even 282 and 205 from the article, but because the current version of interpretation of events in Ukraine, some Ukrainian citizens had it out for other Ukrainian citizens. We, Russians, do with it?
By the way, this summer, when the Iraqi army gave the exact same massacre in Fallujah and earlier in Ramadi, and before that – in Tikrit, where civilians were exterminated not only in combat but also during the sweeps and punitive measures Shiite einsatzkommando, the Russian foreign Ministry has not reacted more sluggishly, if at all noticed going on in Iraq.
It should be noted that only in Fallujah were killed around 10 thousand civilians, about a thousand of them – simultaneously during the bombing of the column leaving the city. In Russia, these events were covered very sparingly and quickly. Yes, and very fragmentary.
In the end, we are participating in the competition, who killed more innocent, when, in response to the accusations of the other side are the facts: you are.
Frankly, the current Kremlin already has one Grand achievement, when it is its policy created from a neutral and sometimes even friendly Ukraine is very hostile and aggressive neighbor. Now the same Herculean efforts buried the achievements of the Soviet Union, when he created his authority and action friendly and even allied regimes in the middle East. It is clear that Syria after Assad will be at least hostile to our country. Iran and Turkey are squeamish tolerate us, but to expect that they will be our allies, is clearly not necessary – Iran will never forget how Russia betrayed him, joining the Western sanctions (though a binding decision in this respect, Russia was not). Turkey – Erdogan’s strained relations with the United States, we are partners. As soon as they will improve – we are again stuck in the back or anywhere else a knife or something else. The expectation is that we bought Erdogan its gas, is extremely naive. And I would have to wait than do Turkish stream-2 ends.
In General, the foreign policy of Putin’s achievements seem magical. Failures everywhere, and they are unclear about their meaning – what’s the payoff. The only benefit we can draw from all these failures now have someone to write our catastrophe in the country. It’s not us, it is an external enemy got us in this ..um… situation. If not for the adversary, we would be in scalade.
