Russia has introduced a document on counter-terrorism efforts to the UN Security Council. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said: “We rely not only on the basic principles approved by the UN and other structures, but we also consider the urge of G8 leaders towards opposition and the government to unite and eradicate terrorism from the Syrian land.”
However, Constantine Sivkov, Vice President of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems, does not believe in existence of an international counter-terrorism society: “It is just a myth, a concealed operations. There is no real fight against terrorism. There is an imitation of a fight against the lowest-level terrorism: separate field commanders and separate terrorists.”
According to Sivkov, terrorist organizations consist of at least four levels: the first level is terrorists themselves, the second level is field commanders, the third level is forces providing them with weapons and financing, the fourth is the people giving them targets.
“There is no fight against the two highest levels. I heard about attempts to attack terrorist camps but I have never heard about an arrest or a gunning down of a banker financing terrorists. I have never heard about attacks on headquarters of special services of Saudi Arabia that control terrorists,” states Sivkov.
In his words, terrorism “has become a powerful instrument of foreign policy using force, first of all for special services and countries of the West. They have been working on this technology and this initiative, realized by special services of the West back in the late 1980s – early 1990s, has been partly taken up by special services of monarchies of the Gulf. To be exact, Saudi Arabia. It is a new form of armed warfare. Terrorist organizations are a new form of the army. No wonder Saudi Arabia fully finances it.
According to Sivkov’s data, “from 1965 to 2001, a total of about 44,000 people suffered from terrorism, while about 1.5 million have been killed by fighters against terrorism since 2001. Four major wars have been started: Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria.”
The expert is confident that terrorism is used for two purposes: “The first is organization of instability of a state you cannot wage a war against due to different circumstances (Syria and Libya at first stages). The second goal is a reason for deployment of armed forces, regular forces (Iraq, Afghanistan, an attempt to do the same in Syria and, of course, the classic example of Libya).”
“The West is ready to fight the organizations that went out of its control. The Arab Spring, by the way, shows another interesting phenomenon. In fact, the goals set by Western ideologists have not been achieved. Control over the processes of the ‘controlled chaos’ was lost. As a result, Islamists have become the dominators of the region,” says Sivkov.
He is confident that “the same picture can be seen on the territory of Ukraine as well. Though the forces there that took over the initiative of the initiators of Maidan were neo-fascist organizations of Western Ukraine.”
