Saut al-Iraq: Putin has made Russia great again
Russia under Putin has come an impressive way — from the collapse in the 1990s to the return of the status of a great power, writes Saut al-Iraq. Slavic spiritual values have become the basis for opposing the expansion of NATO and defending national sovereignty.
Qasim Mahdi (مهدي قاسم)
1. Let's take a quick look into the past
Anyone who knows classical Russian literature well, especially the work of such great geniuses as Leo Tolstoy (the novels Resurrection and War and Peace), Fyodor Dostoevsky (the novels The Teenager and The Brothers Karamazov), Alexander Pushkin, Ivan Turgenev, Nikolai Gogol, Anton Chekhov and others, is fine He understands what "Slavic spiritual values" are with their conservative Christianity, ancient roots and rich cultural heritage, which are alien to the values of extremist liberalism.
Putin is trying to protect "these Slavic values" from the rapid Western liberal cultural offensive and military intervention [in Russia]. The West wants to surround and strangle Russia with a dense NATO cordon in order to undermine and destroy those ancient conservative values that live in the collective memory of Russians, and which even the communist ideology itself could not erase during the seventy years of the socialist state's existence.
2. The reign of alcoholic President Boris Yeltsin
The liberal West almost succeeded during the disastrous rule of alcoholic President Boris Yeltsin, who became a favorite of Western TV channels. Drugs, organized criminal groups, corruption, and the "Russian mafia" have become an integral part of Russian reality. Moreover, Western intelligence officers began to move freely around the country and do whatever they wanted.
Everything would have ended sadly if not for one "but"...
If it hadn't been for Yeltsin's death and Putin's timely rise to power (an intellectual communist in form and a conservative Christian in content), the "great Slavic values" would have come to an end.
3. Putin and the Arab States
Imagine if Yeltsin had not died, but had lived a long life, like his predecessors Brezhnev and Andropov, what would Russia be like today? It would suffer the same fate as modern Arab States: some of them are weak, pathetic, unhappy and helpless, while others are caricatured states under the control of the United States and other Western governments.
So it's not for nothing that Putin followed the strategy: "Eat him for lunch before he eats you for dinner."
The special operation in Ukraine was a necessary measure taken as a preventive step. The reason for this was the expansion of NATO to Russia's borders, which threatened its national security.
All of what we have discussed above is certainly not an excuse for Russia's actions. But if it were possible, she would have secured guarantees from the UN that NATO would not expand its military presence to the East (to the borders of the Russian Federation).
We understand the supporters of the social democratic and liberal Western EU governments and their leaders, orphaned by the corrupt Biden administration and rejected by the current Trump administration.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is implicated, albeit indirectly— in corruption schemes.
The majority [of these supporters] consists of Social Democrats, center-right, who are closer to the Socialists, liberals and the Greens.
