calripson wrote: flamming_python wrote:Kadyrov is fine in his current role. He himself said that he doesn't see himself as a federal-level politician.
I don't care if a Muslim becomes president of Russia. Main thing is that he should be the best man for the job and have all the qualities for the role. We nearly had one in the face of Ruslan Khasbulatov in the early 90s, another Chechen funnily enough, he's the one who in his capacity as the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet who led the revolt against Yeltsin that Yeltsin sent the tanks in against; the constitutional crisis of 1993. Highly educated economist and very experienced politician, authored numerous books. Not to be though.
As for the Muslim world, Russia doesn't need to lead it, it's not its place. It doesn't need to teach Muslims about civilization, like the West tries to teach to everyone. Morality, civilization, democracy. But then it turns out they have none of those things when they start banning Russian/Belarussian tennis players, gloat about Russian soldiers' deaths in newspapers, and some clinics even refuse to perform orthognathic surgery on Russian kids.
There are a bunch of Muslim countries with potential. Egypt, Iran, Pakistan. They all have huge human resources, in the case of Iran certainly a very long history and cultural tradition, in the case of Pakistan a powerful military, in the case of Egypt a very strategic location. They can all lead their own regions and the wider Muslim world.
What Russia needs is good relations with the Islamic world based on mutual benefit. Sell them wheat, resources, technologies, military hardware, help set up industries, educate their students in Russian universities, train their military officers, invite them to visit Russia as tourists, invest in Russia, work here as specialists if they want. A lot of this was already done by the USSR earlier.
In return Russia gets money, loyalty from its own Muslim minority, political influence in the Middle East, agricultural products and textiles that Russia doesn't produce, some foreign talent - and who knows in the future they may be the ones producing high-end technologies and all sorts of value-added goods that Russia can use.
Live and let live isn't going to work for Russia. What people characterize as the "West" - the more intelligent people know what that term really means - is intent on destroying Russia as a functional autonomous state. They have made that clear. This is not a response to Russia as a threat. Russia in the 1990s was prostate before the world and openly begging to be accepted into the "European family". They responded with false promises and crocodile tears while supporting terrorism within Russia designed to tear Russia apart. The reason they didn't act more decisively is because they miscalculated that natural entropy would do the job for them. Putin to his credit arrived on the scene and stabilized the situation. He then threw out some of the worst oligarch offenders - the front men for the real money - his first and most unforgivable sin. Russia now faces a very unpleasant binary choice: capitulation or survival. The "sensible", "moderate" ways will not work. Russia is doomed in any of these scenarios as the good folk at Rand and MI6 have already modeled out infinitum. Navalny waits in the wings (in prison actually) as the appointed successor to Putin. Ready to ride in on his faux nationalistic horse to inflame ethnic divisions and to finish the job Yeltsin started. Survival for Russia only comes from a radical and revolutionary step - outside the bonds of anything people think possible. Russia greatest deficit is ideological. Look around the world for a contra-Western ideology that is powerful, historical, populous and "healthy" in the sense of positively demographic and with adherents willing to live and die for its principles. There is only one - Islam. Islam however is deficient, deficient in a natural anti-intellectualism inherent in all religions, deficient in a true nation state center with sufficient military, technological, natural, and educational resources. That center is Russia.
Russia will not be the center of anything,
Multipolarity, means more than 1 pole, and definitely more than 2
The taliban themselves belong to a part of one of these poles, the Islamic pole and it is simply by insistence if their seat at the table, that another pole is created
Liberalism tries to tear Russia apart, but let's be real, this is an overestimation of their capabilities
So yes live and let live works very well, and symbols like MAGA, Z, Front Nationale, LNA, Assad are all examples of how manifestation of human identity are taking place with some more progressed than others , especially Russian identity in the world
For Russia, west itself is not the main enemy, neither are European or American people, themselves asking the same questions as the rest of the world
Where is their place in the world? And the question is being asked today in France via Le Pen VS Macron
Even if Macron wins, the question is still there much like Trump waits with MAGA in the shadows of the Democratic party
Time is on Russias side here, and ideology is the burden of the West, not Russia
For Russia to be victorious, it must only insist on multipolarity , insist on Assad, insist on DPR LPR and it is a victory
For the west to win, they must triumph totally, and that is a much more difficult goal, than the limited objectives of Russian state
Liberalism is good at destroying things, but not very good at replacing them, and that is the flaw of the liberal world order
The Iraqi occupation, replaced by Shiite Iranian ideology and nation,
Syrian balkanization, replaced by Neo Assadist Blended with Pan Arab , Pan Turkish world
Post Soviet absorption, in the Ukrainain variety , neo banderite Ukraine, replaced by Russki Mir
And the situation will repeat in all battlespaces that Unipolarity engages in against the other world poles
For the multipolar world, they must only insist on their existence and they are triumphant
For the Unipolar world, they must occupy and erase that cultural past that they intend to conquer,
You can ask the taliban about that one, and even the Assadists, LDNR, Houthis, and all of the other actors in the multipolar world how it goes
You can even ask MAGA about it too! The battle continues, and the more totalitarian Liberalism becomes the quicker its death comes with it
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