{"id":7782,"date":"2016-02-23T13:21:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T13:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=7782"},"modified":"2016-02-29T13:13:19","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T13:13:19","slug":"feb23-russia-kadyrov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/feb23-russia-kadyrov\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrei Piontkovsky: ‘Russia as Part of Chechnya’ OR What is ‘Russian patriot’ Ramzan Kadyrov Is Afraid of?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russian journalist, political analyst and publicist Andrei Piontkovsky was forced to leave Russia.\u00a0Mark Feigin, his lawyer, said that Piontkovsky had to leave the country due to the fact that the Prosecutor’s Office found signs of extremism in his\u00a0article\u00a0\u00a0‘The bomb, ready to explode<\/a>‘\u00a0on the website of the ‘Echo of Moscow’\u00a0radio station. The article was dedicated to the future of Chechnya as part of Russia. In the interview given to ‘Apostrof’, Andrei Piontkovsky did not disclose\u00a0all the details of his escape and the country where lives now.\u00a0He said that the prosecution against him was initiated by the\u00a0Chechen ‘parliament’. According to Piontkovsky, a sharp conflict is now brewing in Russia\u00a0between the security forces and Putin because of\u00a0the Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, and this conflict may\u00a0even result in a new war in Chechnya. But any war is\u00a0martial law, which will be used to complete the mopping\u00a0of the liberals.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Now the Russian media actively hype the\u00a0topic about unrest in Kyiv which\u00a0has already been called the ‘3rd Maidan’. What do you think, is its appearance still possible?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 You rightly pointed out that these events were the subject No.\u00a01 in the Russian propaganda in the last days. But as always, it distorts the facts and the information is fabricated. The\u00a0Russian propaganda now quite innocently gives out itself, confirming that this so-called ‘3rd Maidan’ is actually an old dream of Putin. After all, the\u00a0violent overthrow of the government agencies in war conditions will result in\u00a0real collapse of the state and will be a huge gift to the aggressor.\u00a0I am sure that Ukraine is fully aware of this, and, despite all the difficulties\u00a0and\u00a0huge disappointment of society, the Ukrainians will not venture on the ‘3rd\u00a0Maidan’.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Lately we see a whole wave of persecutions against the Russian liberals and opposition leaders: Kasyanov, Khodorkovsky, Koch.\u00a0And now a criminal case was instituted against you because of\u00a0the article about Kadyrov… How would you comment these actions?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 It is a curious moment that most\u00a0repressive initiatives come exactly from Kadyrov. With regard to me, for example, the\u00a0persecution\u00a0was initiated also by the\u00a0Chechen ‘parliament’.<\/p>\n

\"Andrei<\/a><\/p>\n

Andrei Piontkovsky<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I have been saying\u00a0a lot of things about our authorities for years – and I am still alive, sound as a bell\u00a0and\u00a0on the loose.\u00a0But when I said several\u00a0nasty things about Kadyrov, the whole Chechen ‘parliament’ demanded to\u00a0punish me. This requirement was expressed by the so-called Speaker of the Parliament, ‘lord with a dog’, as I call him, Mr. Daudov, involved in so many extra-judicial killings of the\u00a0Chechen authorities’ opponents.\u00a0And what do we see? The federal government, like a dog, rushes to fulfill the will of Daudov\u00a0and the so-called Chechen parliament.\u00a0Our federal agencies – the Duma, the Investigative Committee, the General Prosecutor, FSB try hard to take my case. All this once again confirms the metaphor of which I speak for many years – Russia, in fact, is a part of Chechnya.<\/p>\n

\u2014 What, in your opinion, Kadyrov is afraid of?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Kadyrov knows that he is long-hated by the representatives of security forces who\u00a0believe that Putin stole their victory, when he gave so much power to Kadyrov and his fighters. Therefore, he now tries to show himself very fit and loyal to Putin, who is\u00a0his only ally in Moscow.\u00a0But Kadyrov\u00a0does not always make a neat job,\u00a0because such\u00a0omnipotence of the Chechens in the Russian territory irritates not only the security forces, and the fifth column\u00a0(‘liberal devils’, as\u00a0Kadyrov calls them), but also the average Russian, who just does not like that the representatives of the most ‘equitable’\u00a0republic call the tune.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Can we assume in this case that all these\u00a0crackdown on liberals are just the preparations of the Kremlin to something big<\/strong>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Putin\u00a0fell into a trap in Ukraine and then in Syria. He plays with the West not chess but poker, thus he has to\u00a0raise the stakes all the time. He has to show the Russian people some victories.\u00a0Against the backdrop of the collapse of the economy and a significant degradation of the\u00a0living standards, his\u00a0power can be kept for some time\u00a0only by\u00a0demonstration of some foreign policy ‘wins’. And this requires him to\u00a0go for a bigger adventure.\u00a0And this adventure may happen in Syria or Ukraine. If the ‘3rd Maidan’ succeeds, then it will be Ukraine.\u00a0Perhaps the theater of military\u00a0operations will unfold in Chechnya. Security officials may convince Putin or unleash the third Chechen war against his will. In any case, the war means the martial law, which suggests quite a different attitude to the so-called national-traitors.<\/p>\n

Therefore, the most likely explanation for what is happening is the preparation of the society for the full sweep of those who are called the fifth column (the so-called liberals) through the introduction of martial law. People need to be gradually prepared mentally for the big terror.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0So, this\u00a0is a kind of a battle\u00a0for the rating ahead of elections?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Forget about the elections. The elections are an absolute imitation and do not determine anything. Putin imposed his political agenda about the elections to the part of liberals and the world public. But the real political agenda in Russia is something completely different. The real agenda are the military adventures and decisions\u00a0made by Kremlin.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Why does Putin need Kadyrov at all?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 The whole legitimation of Kadyrov is the ‘victory’ in the Chechen war. \"\u043a\u0430\u0434\u044b\u0440\u0431\u043e\u0439\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Do you remember how he appeared from nowhere in 1999? The terrorists blew up our houses (in the reality Russian secret services did that) and all of a sudden a heroic military officer appeared and stopped the terrorists, calmed down Caucasus, proclaimed the war. Putin cannot declare Kadyrov as an enemy and liquidate him as some military bosses would like \u2013 that would mean that Putin deceived us all of these 15 years and that all of his politics failed. Closing the ‘Kadyrov’ project\u00a0is a solution required\u00a0by the security forces. They use the murder of Nemtsov\u00a0(organized by themselves) as a pretext for the closure of the ‘Kadyrov’\u00a0project. It is obvious that the direct executors of the murder were captured- and they are Kadyrov’s people. Investigators want to question people close to Kadyrov, and Kadyrov himself. And it is a sharp political conflict, which unfolds now between military bosses and Putin. This conflict is a lot sharper then the conflict between Yatsenyuk and Poroshenko.<\/p>\n

\u2014 You were correct in your\u00a0article on ‘Echo of Moscow’\u00a0saying that\u00a0this is ‘a bomb ready to explode’<\/strong>…<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Yes, that’s right. I apparently raised a very painful topic.<\/p>\n

\u2014 And what do you plan to do next?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 My work depends only from my computer, skype and absolutely does not depend on my geographical location, so nothing will change.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Bashar Assad declared that he is ready for a ceasefire. Does it mean anything real<\/strong>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 I don\u2019t think so. It is only a new level of demagogy of Assad and Kremlin. It is clear to everyone that Kremlin came to Syria on 30th of September. They don\u2019t fight ISIS at all. In November the investigators of American financial intelligence published a revelation about the cooperation of Kremlin with ISIS and coordination of the selling of oil to Assad. They destroy not ISIS, but the pro-western opposition to Assad. The whole world watches the destruction of the city Aleppo, which was the centre of the opposition. If the behaviour of Assad and Putin is predictable, then the behaviour of Obama and Kerry is absolutely shameful in this situation. They conduct endless ‘constructive’ negotiations with their friend Sergey [Sergey Lavrov, minister of foreign affairs of Russia], who deserves to be sent to Haag since a long time. I personally would send them both \u2013 Lavrov-Ribbentrop and Kerry.\u00a0Because Aleppo became the symbol of crimes of Assad, Putin, Obama and Kerry – similar as Sarajevo became the symbol of crimes of Milosevic and the silent West together with the UN.<\/p>\n

Lavrov does not hide anything. He keeps repeating on all the press-conferences that they will destroy terrorists regardless of the signed agreements. According to Lavrov, the terrorists keep threatening Russia and should be destroyed as soon as possible before they come to Russia. But in Aleppo there is no people who threaten Russia and who belong to ISIS. Assad repeats the same: \u201dWe are ready for a ceasefire, but there can be no ceasefire with terrorists.\u201c<\/p>\n

Further reading: General Ahmad Rahal: \u201cThere are some 12,000 Russian troops in Syria now, complicit in the genocide of the Syrian people\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014 What does Assad want to reach with such statements<\/strong>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 The whole thing is that Assad\u2019s definition of terrorists is ‘Terrorist is everyone who\u00a0fights against me’. Moscow also adopted this absolutely cynical and impudent definition. Now everyone who is fighting Assad should be destroyed. Now USA tries to please Assad and Putin, who physically kill western-oriented people, whom the West called up to the fight with Assad and to whom they tried to provide some insignificant support. This is a huge betray of Sunnis majority of Syria. And the single result is that the Sunnite youth, frustrated by the betrayal, will join ISIS. The actions of Assad, Putin, and unfortunately USA, cannot be called a fight with ISIS, but the work for strengthening of ISIS. This can be a good lesson for Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\u2014 What do you mean<\/strong>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Ukraine needs the support of the West \u2013 from both Europe and USA. The support (maybe not always sufficient) is provided \u2013 both politically, economically and even military. You have to develop these relationships \u2013\u00a0there are people and institutions, who want to support Ukraine and stand for the values, which were represented by maidan. But the behaviour of Obama and Kerry in Syria should warn you, that these people can betray you in any moment.<\/p>\n

\n

\u2014 What is your forecast for Syria? We can observe that the frontline is approaching the border with Turkey<\/strong>\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Yes, in relations with Turkey the USA behaves not as an ally. Putin provokes Turkey \u2013\u00a0he kills Turkmens, who are ethnically close to the Turks, provides weapons to the Kurds and pushes them to move to the Turkish border, and the USA restrains Turkey with all the means. Turkey is an ally of the USA in NATO, but Washington calls to both sides \u2013\u00a0Moscow and Ankara\u00a0\u2013\u00a0to show restraint. Both Brussels and Washington warn Turkey that it cannot count on article 5 of the NATO Charter in this conflict.<\/p>\n

Please see also: \u2018<\/em><\/strong>Why Do Assad and PKK Strike Turkey<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u2019<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 What is the Putin\u2019s interest in this Turkish provocation? Erdogan has in fact already made it clear that these games are dangerous to him\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Firstly, he would like to humiliate the NATO. Why does he go there? In order to prove to himself, to his guys from the \u2018Ozero\u2019 [Lake] cooperative and to the Russian TV viewers that he is a big \u2018decision-maker\u2019. For the time being, he did succeed because the war is unfolding Putin\u2019s\u00a0script. It is why he had come to Syria: to help Assad and to destroy the entire pro-Western opposition. In order that only two players will\u00a0remain in Syria \u2014 Assad and ISIS. And then Assad and Putin will throw the international community into a dilemma: \u2018Well, whom are you going to support, us or those who cut off your heads?\u2019. The Turkey is the only one force that can break this game. Therefore, the Americans keep a tight lid on it.<\/p>\n

\u2014 So, Putin outplays them all for now?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Well, it only seems that way. All these tactical victories beat a path to\u00a0a huge strategic defeat. It was obvious that he had lost in Ukraine, that there is no ‘Russian world’ or \u2018Novorossiya\u2019, therefore it was necessary to go into the Syria and to demonstrate there some kind of \u2018victories\u2019 in order to keep\u00a0the support of the Russian population. However, this time the economy fell so seriously that high unemployment rate and food shortages have arisen. After all, Syria is too far. Probably a\u00a0Russian respectable citizen\u00a0feels nice\u00a0crunching popcorn, drinking beer and watching on the TV how Putin defeats them all, but when there is neither popcorn nor beer (or even\u00a0more elementary things) then all quickly forget about Syria and start asking \u2013 what is happening in our country?<\/p>\n

\u2014 Nevertheless, is the internal protest increasing?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 It is difficult to judge. The situation is really getting worse seriously. It is impossible to predict when exactly the protest will break out. A classic example \u2013 at the end of February of 1917, when Lenin gave a lecture to the young Swiss Social Democrats, they asked him: \u2018And when the revolution will start?\u2019. His answer was: \u2018We, the olds, will not\u00a0live to see it but you are young and you will see\u2019. He returned home after the lecture and found a telegram from Petrograd that the revolution had begun. However, what happened? Nothing special – bread was\u00a0not delivered to the bakeries of Saint Petersburg for two days. It was an incident since there was a lot of bread, but a train with it\u00a0got stuck somewhere. It is very difficult to predict when the patience of the masses will run out. Nevertheless, the vector of changes inexorably goes in the certain\u00a0direction.
\nOriginal article<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Svetlana Sheremetyeva, ‘Apostrophe’<\/a>, translated by\u00a0maomam and other volunteers<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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The article was dedicated to the future of Chechnya as part of Russia. In the interview given to 'Apostrof', Andrei Piontkovsky did not disclose\u00a0all the details of his escape and the country where lives now.\u00a0He said that the prosecution against him was initiated by the\u00a0Chechen 'parliament'. According to Piontkovsky, a sharp conflict is now brewing in Russia\u00a0between the security forces and Putin because of\u00a0the Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, and this conflict may\u00a0even result in a new war in Chechnya. But any war is\u00a0martial law, which will be used to complete the mopping\u00a0of the liberals.\r\n\r\n<strong>\u2014 Now the Russian media actively hype the\u00a0topic about unrest in Kyiv which\u00a0has already been called the '3rd Maidan'. What do you think, is its appearance still possible?<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\u2014 You rightly pointed out that these events were the subject No.\u00a01 in the Russian propaganda in the last days. But as always, it distorts the facts and the information is fabricated. The\u00a0Russian propaganda now quite innocently gives out itself, confirming that this so-called '3rd Maidan' is actually an old dream of Putin. After all, the\u00a0violent overthrow of the government agencies in war conditions will result in\u00a0real collapse of the state and will be a huge gift to the aggressor.\u00a0I am sure that Ukraine is fully aware of this, and, despite all the difficulties\u00a0and\u00a0huge disappointment of society, the Ukrainians will not venture on the '3rd\u00a0Maidan'.\r\n\r\n<strong>\u2014\u00a0Lately we see a whole wave of persecutions against the Russian liberals and opposition leaders: Kasyanov, Khodorkovsky, Koch.\u00a0And now a criminal case was instituted against you because of\u00a0the article about Kadyrov... How would you comment these actions?<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\u2014 It is a curious moment that most\u00a0repressive initiatives come exactly from Kadyrov. With regard to me, for example, the\u00a0persecution\u00a0was initiated also by the\u00a0Chechen 'parliament'.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_20450\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\"]<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/piontkovskij.jpeg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20450\"><img class=\"wp-image-20450\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/piontkovskij.jpeg\" alt=\"Andrei Piontkovsky\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a> Andrei Piontkovsky[\/caption]\r\n\r\nI have been saying\u00a0a lot of things about our authorities for years - and I am still alive, sound as a bell\u00a0and\u00a0on the loose.\u00a0But when I said several\u00a0nasty things about Kadyrov, the whole Chechen 'parliament' demanded to\u00a0punish me. This requirement was expressed by the so-called Speaker of the Parliament, 'lord with a dog', as I call him, Mr. Daudov, involved in so many extra-judicial killings of the\u00a0Chechen authorities' opponents.\u00a0And what do we see? The federal government, like a dog, rushes to fulfill the will of Daudov\u00a0and the so-called Chechen parliament.\u00a0Our federal agencies - the Duma, the Investigative Committee, the General Prosecutor, FSB try hard to take my case. All this once again confirms the metaphor of which I speak for many years - Russia, in fact, is a part of Chechnya.\r\n\r\n<strong>\u2014 What, in your opinion, Kadyrov is afraid of?<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\u2014 Kadyrov knows that he is long-hated by the representatives of security forces who\u00a0believe that Putin stole their victory, when he gave so much power to Kadyrov and his fighters. Therefore, he now tries to show himself very fit and loyal to Putin, who is\u00a0his only ally in Moscow.\u00a0But Kadyrov\u00a0does not always make a neat job,\u00a0because such\u00a0omnipotence of the Chechens in the Russian territory irritates not only the security forces, and the fifth column\u00a0('liberal devils', as\u00a0Kadyrov calls them), but also the average Russian, who just does not like that the representatives of the most 'equitable'\u00a0republic call the tune.\r\n\r\n<strong>\u2014 Can we assume in this case that all these\u00a0crackdown on liberals are just the preparations of the Kremlin to something big<\/strong><strong>?<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\u2014 Putin\u00a0fell into a trap in Ukraine and then in Syria. He plays with the West not chess but poker, thus he has to\u00a0raise the stakes all the time. He has to show the Russian people some victories.\u00a0Against the backdrop of the collapse of the economy and a significant degradation of the\u00a0living standards, his\u00a0power can be kept for some time\u00a0only by\u00a0demonstration of some foreign policy 'wins'. And this requires him to\u00a0go for a bigger adventure.\u00a0And this adventure may happen in Syria or Ukraine. If the '3rd Maidan' succeeds, then it will be Ukraine.\u00a0Perhaps the theater of military\u00a0operations will unfold in Chechnya. Security officials may convince Putin or unleash the third Chechen war against his will. In any case, the war means the martial law, which suggests quite a different attitude to the so-called national-traitors.\r\n\r\nTherefore, the most likely explanation for what is happening is the preparation of the society for the full sweep of those who are called the fifth column (the so-called liberals) through the introduction of martial law. People need to be gradually prepared mentally for the big terror.\r\n\r\n<strong>\u2014\u00a0So, this\u00a0is a kind of a battle\u00a0for the rating ahead of elections?<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\u2014 Forget about the elections. The elections are an absolute imitation and do not determine anything. Putin imposed his political agenda about the elections to the part of liberals and the world public. But the real political agenda in Russia is something completely different. The real agenda are the military adventures and decisions\u00a0made by Kremlin.\r\n\r\n<strong>\u2014 Why does Putin need Kadyrov at all?<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\u2014 The whole legitimation of Kadyrov is the 'victory' in the Chechen war. <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/kadyrboj.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20451\"><img class=\"alignleft wp-image-20451\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/kadyrboj.jpg\" alt=\"\u043a\u0430\u0434\u044b\u0440\u0431\u043e\u0439\" width=\"300\" height=\"305\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\nDo you remember how he appeared from nowhere in 1999? The terrorists blew up our houses (in the reality Russian secret services did that) and all of a sudden a heroic military officer appeared and stopped the terrorists, calmed down Caucasus, proclaimed the war. Putin cannot declare Kadyrov as an enemy and liquidate him as some military bosses would like \u2013 that would mean that Putin deceived us all of these 15 years and that all of his politics failed. Closing the 'Kadyrov' project\u00a0is a solution required\u00a0by the security forces. They use the murder of Nemtsov\u00a0(organized by themselves) as a pretext for the closure of the 'Kadyrov'\u00a0project. It is obvious that the direct executors of the murder were captured- and they are Kadyrov's people. Investigators want to question people close to Kadyrov, and Kadyrov himself. And it is a sharp political conflict, which unfolds now between military bosses and Putin. This conflict is a lot sharper then the conflict between Yatsenyuk and Poroshenko.\r\n\r\n<strong>\u2014 You were correct in your\u00a0article on 'Echo of Moscow'\u00a0saying that\u00a0this is 'a bomb ready to explode'<\/strong><strong>...<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\u2014 Yes, that's right. I apparently raised a very painful topic.\r\n\r\n<strong>\u2014 <strong>And what do you plan to do next?<\/strong><\/strong>\r\n\r\n\u2014 My work depends only from my computer, skype and absolutely does not depend on my geographical location, so nothing will change.\r\n\r\n<strong>\u2014 Bashar Assad declared that he is ready for a ceasefire. Does it mean anything real<\/strong><strong>?<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\u2014 I don\u2019t think so. It is only a new level of demagogy of Assad and Kremlin. It is clear to everyone that Kremlin came to Syria on 30th of September. They don\u2019t fight ISIS at all. In November the investigators of American financial intelligence published a revelation about the cooperation of Kremlin with ISIS and coordination of the selling of oil to Assad. They destroy not ISIS, but the pro-western opposition to Assad. The whole world watches the destruction of the city Aleppo, which was the centre of the opposition. If the behaviour of Assad and Putin is predictable, then the behaviour of Obama and Kerry is absolutely shameful in this situation. They conduct endless 'constructive' negotiations with their friend Sergey [Sergey Lavrov, minister of foreign affairs of Russia], who deserves to be sent to Haag since a long time. I personally would send them both \u2013 Lavrov-Ribbentrop and Kerry.\u00a0Because Aleppo became the symbol of crimes of Assad, Putin, Obama and Kerry - similar as Sarajevo became the symbol of crimes of Milosevic and the silent West together with the UN.\r\n\r\nLavrov does not hide anything. He keeps repeating on all the press-conferences that they will destroy terrorists regardless of the signed agreements. According to Lavrov, the terrorists keep threatening Russia and should be destroyed as soon as possible before they come to Russia. But in Aleppo there is no people who threaten Russia and who belong to ISIS. Assad repeats the same: \u201dWe are ready for a ceasefire, but there can be no ceasefire with terrorists.\u201c\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Further reading: <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/feb21-syria-general-rahal\/\" target=\"_blank\">General Ahmad Rahal: \u201cThere are some 12,000 Russian troops in Syria now, complicit in the genocide of the Syrian people\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\n<strong>\u2014 What does Assad want to reach with such statements<\/strong><strong>?<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\u2014 The whole thing is that Assad\u2019s definition of terrorists is 'Terrorist is everyone who\u00a0fights against me'. Moscow also adopted this absolutely cynical and impudent definition. Now everyone who is fighting Assad should be destroyed. Now USA tries to please Assad and Putin, who physically kill western-oriented people, whom the West called up to the fight with Assad and to whom they tried to provide some insignificant support. This is a huge betray of Sunnis majority of Syria. And the single result is that the Sunnite youth, frustrated by the betrayal, will join ISIS. The actions of Assad, Putin, and unfortunately USA, cannot be called a fight with ISIS, but the work for strengthening of ISIS. This can be a good lesson for Ukraine.\r\n\r\n<strong>\u2014 What do you mean<\/strong><strong>?<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\u2014 Ukraine needs the support of the West \u2013 from both Europe and USA. The support (maybe not always sufficient) is provided \u2013 both politically, economically and even military. You have to develop these relationships \u2013\u00a0there are people and institutions, who want to support Ukraine and stand for the values, which were represented by maidan. But the behaviour of Obama and Kerry in Syria should warn you, that these people can betray you in any moment.\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<strong>\u2014 What is your forecast for Syria? We can observe that the frontline is approaching the border with Turkey<\/strong><strong>\u2026<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\u2014 Yes, in relations with Turkey the USA behaves not as an ally. Putin provokes Turkey \u2013\u00a0he kills Turkmens, who are ethnically close to the Turks, provides weapons to the Kurds and pushes them to move to the Turkish border, and the USA restrains Turkey with all the means. Turkey is an ally of the USA in NATO, but Washington calls to both sides \u2013\u00a0Moscow and Ankara\u00a0\u2013\u00a0to show restraint. Both Brussels and Washington warn Turkey that it cannot count on article 5 of the NATO Charter in this conflict.\r\n\r\n<strong><em>Please see also: \u2018<\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/feb20-assad-strikes-turkey\/\"><strong><em>Why Do Assad and PKK Strike Turkey<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>\u2019<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>\u2014 What is the Putin\u2019s interest in this Turkish provocation? Erdogan has in fact already made it clear that these games are dangerous to him\u2026<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\u2014 Firstly, he would like to humiliate the NATO. Why does he go there? In order to prove to himself, to his guys from the \u2018Ozero\u2019 [Lake] cooperative and to the Russian TV viewers that he is a big \u2018decision-maker\u2019. For the time being, he did succeed because the war is unfolding Putin\u2019s\u00a0script. It is why he had come to Syria: to help Assad and to destroy the entire pro-Western opposition. In order that only two players will\u00a0remain in Syria \u2014 Assad and ISIS. And then Assad and Putin will throw the international community into a dilemma: \u2018Well, whom are you going to support, us or those who cut off your heads?\u2019. The Turkey is the only one force that can break this game. Therefore, the Americans keep a tight lid on it.\r\n\r\n<strong>\u2014 So, Putin outplays them all for now?<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\u2014 Well, it only seems that way. All these tactical victories beat a path to\u00a0a huge strategic defeat. It was obvious that he had lost in Ukraine, that there is no 'Russian world' or \u2018Novorossiya\u2019, therefore it was necessary to go into the Syria and to demonstrate there some kind of \u2018victories\u2019 in order to keep\u00a0the support of the Russian population. However, this time the economy fell so seriously that high unemployment rate and food shortages have arisen. After all, Syria is too far. Probably a\u00a0Russian respectable citizen\u00a0feels nice\u00a0crunching popcorn, drinking beer and watching on the TV how Putin defeats them all, but when there is neither popcorn nor beer (or even\u00a0more elementary things) then all quickly forget about Syria and start asking \u2013 what is happening in our country?\r\n\r\n<strong>\u2014 Nevertheless, is the internal protest increasing?<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\u2014 It is difficult to judge. The situation is really getting worse seriously. It is impossible to predict when exactly the protest will break out. A classic example \u2013 at the end of February of 1917, when Lenin gave a lecture to the young Swiss Social Democrats, they asked him: \u2018And when the revolution will start?\u2019. His answer was: \u2018We, the olds, will not\u00a0live to see it but you are young and you will see\u2019. He returned home after the lecture and found a telegram from Petrograd that the revolution had begun. However, what happened? Nothing special - bread was\u00a0not delivered to the bakeries of Saint Petersburg for two days. It was an incident since there was a lot of bread, but a train with it\u00a0got stuck somewhere. It is very difficult to predict when the patience of the masses will run out. Nevertheless, the vector of changes inexorably goes in the certain\u00a0direction.\r\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/20447-piotkovski\/\">Original article<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/apostrophe.com.ua\/article\/politics\/2016-02-23\/obama-i-kerri-mogut-predat-ukrainu-v-lyuboy-moment-andrey-piontkovskiy\/3435\">Svetlana Sheremetyeva, 'Apostrophe'<\/a>, translated by\u00a0maomam and other volunteers<\/em>\r\n\r\n<\/div>","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7782"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7817,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782\/revisions\/7817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}