How much is opium for people? If anyone remembers, the fictional character Bender asked the priest Foydor this question, who was engaged in the search for treasures not belonging to him with an inappropriate energy for a priest. Watching the tragic events that are taking place in the Arab world, where instead of the democracy and rule of law promised by the West, chaos, destruction, mass violence and murder hold sway, it is the right time to ask the same question: "How much is that opium for the people?" And why do the people of Iraq, Syria, Libya have to pay such a high price for the ghostly alluring deception called the ‘Arab Spring’?
Today, it would seem, everything has already been said about the redistribution of energy resources and about the battle for a new world order in which the US will unilaterally rule the world with the tacit approval of the leaders of the European countries, and about the dire results of this policy, reminiscent of the prologue of the upcoming World War III.
I as a journalist am interested in the psychological aspect of this problem. You know, what is interesting, the strikes have been applied first of all ar those countries, which were headed by leaders, strong personalities firmly handling the reins of government. The leader Muammar Gaddafi, President of Iraq Saddam Hussein, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak were outstanding statesmen, whatever the attitude towards them was. From the perspective of European democracy, their methods of governance were tough, sometimes cruel, and the period of them being in power was too long. However, they knew their people, understood their psychology and had a clear vision of how to maintain stability in such a volatile region.
A nation without a strong leader can easily be converted into a crowd, and a country without a leader is easy to immerse into a situation of controlled chaos. All this is well known to the people who possessed the sophisticated political techniques and thought up the script of ‘Arab Spring’. That is why they began their ‘crusade’ against the Arab countries to overthrow idols. What the Western hirelings have done to the legitimate presidents of Iraq, Egypt and Libya is a shameful page in the history of these countries. Lets remember what the bloody campaign of the Bolsheviks against its own people started with: from the murder of the royal family, including women and children. Do you know why? Because after all this, everything was made possible, because it was the moral threshold beyond which society, if it wants to remain civilized, should not move. In Iraq and Libya, this threshold has been crossed. The societies have been plunged into lawlessness after the barbaric executions and trampling of their legitimate rulers.
The results of these actions for the West itself are well-known. Today, the countries of Europe, being concerned with an unprecedented influx of refugees, are reaping the benefits of their own policies.
Unfortunately, the well-known paradox of Hegel says that history teaches that it teaches nothing. For many months, Europe and the United States have been trying to overthrow Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad by every means. The Syrian opposition has been funded well to perform this, a civil war that split the country and made refugees of almost 4 million people has been provoked to achieve this goal. As for the motives of the stubborn resistance to the regime of Bashar al-Assad, as well as regarding to his personality, different points of view can be expressed. However, the fact is that, after his voluntary or forced departure, Syria will cease to exist as an independent state and will be plunged into complete and permanent chaos, perhaps no one is in doubt about this. Everyone has the examples of Afghanistan, Egypt, Libya and Iraq. Therefore, I personally have taken the news that Russia has decided to fight in Syria with sympathy, its air force on the side of the legitimate government. Moreover, in contrast to Europe and to arrogant and infantile overseas powers, the Russians know how to fight. So there can be no doubt about the success of the Syrian operations...
But this is so, by the way. In this situation I am concerned about another circumstance that our suffering and yet still full of grace post-Soviet region for some time now has also become the object of political experiments and unprecedented political pressure.
We started with Georgia in 2003. Well, its leader was quite weak, despite his high-profile political regalia. Eduard Shevardnadze was the first who fell under the onslaught of the ‘Rose Revolution’. Subsequently, in 2006 there was the ‘Tulip Revolution’ in Kyrgyzstan. The scientist-intellectual, Askar Akayev, was also unable to resist attempts to usurp power, and left the country. Since then, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan have plunged into a state of permanent political conflicts, crises and disagreements. I wouldn't say that people in both cases did not get anything. Even Victor Hugo said that "if poverty leads to revolution, revolution definitely leads to poverty."
Then the Western political scientists turned their attention to Belarus, with its vast open spaces, hard-working people, strong industrial and agricultural potential. But here's the rub, they found a spit on a stone. The head of the country was Lukashenko the ‘Dad’, a true leader, who towered over his people. The West used the full range of methods to influence the 'Dad', abundantly watered mud in the media, sanctions were imposed, the country was excommunicated from the Council of the European Parliamentary Assembly. Nothing helped. Lukashenko was successfully re-elected for a new and a new term, but the country also stubbornly did not want to turn from the road of political stability and economic development. Today, the West has realized that it is impossible to beat the 'Dad', and it graciously said that it is ready to lift the sanctions against Belarus.
After that they turned to Ukraine, where there was no strong leader. The export of the revolution succeeded very quickly, but people will have to disentangle the consequences for decades to come ...
Now it is time for Azerbaijan. It would seem that the West is itching Azerbaijan, a country with a predominantly Shiite population, though being secular, tolerant, not seen among the world's debtors, is not begging for loans with outstretched hand in the European financial dressing room, plus a country almost single-handedly carrying transcontinental energy and communication projects, which Europe needs. It strongly supports the EU in the fight against terrorism, extremism and organized crime. And it holds the Global Humanitarian Forum, engaged with a major charity in Europe, holds a Europe-wide celebration for the athletes of the continent, watches the stability in the region, although, frankly, the patience of the Azerbaijani people, who have lost 20% of their territory, is coming to its limit.
Nevertheless, the Western strategists have launched a real information war without rules against Azerbaijan, and the anti-Azerbaijani lobbyists punctually accept insulting our country's resolutions, even agreeing to the possibility of adopting certain sanctions.
And here once again the problem of a strong leader who enjoys the unconditional support of his people comes to the fore. This leader is able to speak loudly about the national interests of the state, it does not allow to interfere in the internal affairs of the country, and at the crucial moment can say the word ‘no’. And our 'sworn friends' in the West are very disappointed: because so much money is spent on grants, with such diligence ‘agents of influence’ have been grown, the fifth column has been almost ready. But, then their plans for the next export of revolution were disrupted. And ‘agents of influence’ have been neutralized, and the fifth column has been identified and the pumping channels of the grants have been blocked. Is it impossible to stay away from aggression and critics of Azerbaijan in this case? And there is a very convenient excuse, the arrest and subsequent conviction of several so-called human rights defenders (who, however, they were protecting is on their conscience). Under the slogan of ‘human rights’ there are so many things you can write off. Even a military invasion. Even a coup. After all, almost everything works. And then everything is broken off. It's a shame! ...
Despite the irony, the rather harsh reaction of Ilham Aliyev and his team to the anti-Azerbaijani resolution of the European Parliament is quite justified, as well as the decision to suspend the membership of the Milli Majlis in the PA ‘Euronest’. The time for diplomatic niceties and misunderstandings, controversy and sluggish imitation of political dialogue has gone. The time has come to call a spade a spade.
Our interlocutors in the European institutions have simply stopped listening to us or understanding us, and the dialogue has become a mentoring monologue with sharply critical notes. Of course, Azerbaijan will never reconcile with the tone. President Ilham Aliyev has repeatedly emphasized in his speeches that it is impossible to talk with us from a position of strength, they cannot dictate their terms to us. We are standing for a constructive political dialogue of equals.
There is another important point: we do not want our fates and the fates of our children to be decided by someone else. Therefore, in the current difficult situation, the Azerbaijani voters stand behind their president. Because people understand that this is not an issue of power and opposition, it is, if you want, a national issue. The tragic events in the Middle East, Georgia, Ukraine became a good lesson for us ...
Many in the country are aware that to support the president, his efforts, his foreign policy means to protect the future of their children, the very existence of the independent Azerbaijani state.
On November 1st the next parliamentary elections will be held. Currently, the pre-election campaign has started. I am sure that the elections will be held in a democratic atmosphere, and the people will really elect the most worthy people as their representatives in the highest legislative body of the country. And it will be a clear message to our detractors.
