{"id":1507626,"date":"2024-12-12T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1507626"},"modified":"2024-12-12T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T03:00:00","slug":"russia-dodged-a-bullet-by-wisely-choosing-not-to-ally-with-the-now-defeated-resistance-axis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/russia-dodged-a-bullet-by-wisely-choosing-not-to-ally-with-the-now-defeated-resistance-axis\/1507626\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Dodged A Bullet By Wisely Choosing Not To Ally With The Now-Defeated Resistance Axis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia Dodged A Bullet By Wisely Choosing Not To Ally With The Now-Defeated Resistance Axis<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Putin made the right choice, which was always driven by his rational calculation of what was in Russia\u2019s objective interests as a state, not due to \u201cZionist influence\u201d like some in the Alt-Media Community now ridiculously claim to defame him after being mad that he didn\u2019t lift a finger to save the Resistance.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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The Iranian-led Resistance Axis has been defeated by Israel. <\/strong>Hamas\u2019 terrorist attack on 7 October 2023 prompted Israel\u2019s collective punishment of the Palestinians in Gaza, which set into motion a series of conflicts that expanded to Lebanon and Syria. Israel has also bombed Yemen and Iran. Hamas\u2019 and Hezbollah\u2019s leaderships were destroyed, leading to a ceasefire in Lebanon, while the Assad government\u00a0was just overthrown<\/a>\u00a0by a Turkish-backed terrorist blitz that severed Iran\u2019s military logistics to Hezbollah.<\/p>\n

These outcomes were already surprising enough for those who believed the late Nasrallah\u2019s claim that \u201cIsrael is weaker than a spider web<\/a>\u201d, but many were shocked that they occurred without Russia lifting a finger to save the Resistance, with whom they thought that it had allied against Israel long ago. That second-mentioned false notion will go down in infamy as one of the most successful psy-ops ever conducted against the\u00a0Alt-Media Community<\/a>\u00a0(AMC), and ironically enough, by its own top influencers.<\/p>\n

It was explained in early October \u201cWhy False Perceptions About Russian Policy Towards Israel Continue To Proliferate<\/a>\u201d, which readers should review for more detail, but which can be summarized as top AMC influencers telling their audience what they thought they wanted to hear for self-interested reasons. These include generating clout, pushing their ideology, and\/or soliciting donations from well-intentioned but na\u00efve members of their audience depending on the personality involved.<\/p>\n

The preceding analysis also lists five related ones about Russian policy towards Israel since the start of the West Asian Wars, including this one \u201cClarifying Lavrov\u2019s Comparison Of The Latest Israeli-Hamas War To Russia\u2019s Special Operation<\/a>\u201d, which itself links to several dozen others. All of them also reference this May 2018 report about \u201cPresident Putin On Israel: Quotes From The Kremlin Website (2000-2018)<\/a>\u201d. All of these materials rely on official and authoritative Russian sources to arrive at their conclusions.<\/p>\n

They prove that Putin is a proud lifelong philo-Semite who never shared the Resistance\u2019s unifying anti-Zionist ideology, instead always expressing very deep respect for Jews and the State of Israel. Accordingly, as the final decisionmaker on Russian foreign policy, he tasked his diplomats with balancing between Israel and the Resistance. To that end, Russia never took either\u2019s side and always remained neutral in their disputes, including the West Asian Wars.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The most that he ever personally did was condemn Israel\u2019s collective punishment of the Palestinians, but always in the same breath as condemning Hamas\u2019 infamous terrorist attack on 7 October 2023. As for Russia, the most that it ever did was repeat the same rhetoric and occasionally condemn Israel\u2019s strikes against the IRGC and Hezbollah in Syria, which Russia never interfered with. Not once did it try to deter or intercept them, retaliate afterwards, or give Syria the\u00a0capabilities<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0authorization<\/a>\u00a0to do so either.<\/p>\n

This was due to the\u00a0deconfliction mechanism<\/a>\u00a0that Putin and Bibi agreed to in late September 2015 shortly before the Syrian operation. It was never confirmed for obvious diplomatic reasons, but these actions (or rather lack thereof) suggested that Putin believed that Iran\u2019s anti-Israeli activities Syria posed a legitimate threat to Israel. For that reason, Russia always stood aside whenever Israel bombed Iran there, but Russia still sometimes complained due to Israel\u2019s attacks formally violating international law.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an objectively existing and easily verifiable fact that Russia\u2019s opposition to Israel\u2019s regional activities, be they in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, or Iran, always remained strictly confined to the political realm of official statements.<\/strong> Not once did Russia ever threaten to unilaterally sanction Israel, let alone even remotely hint at military action against it as punishment. Russia won\u2019t even symbolically designate Israel as an \u201cunfriendly state\u201d, though that\u2019s because it doesn\u2019t abide by US sanctions and won\u2019t arm Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Therein lies another fact that most in the AMC were either unaware of or in denial about and it\u2019s that Israel isn\u2019t the US\u2019 puppet otherwise it would have already done those two things long ago. It\u2019s beyond the scope of the present piece to explain this, as well as why the Biden Administration has tried to destabilize and overthrow Bibi, but this analysis\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0dives into the details and cites related articles. The point is that Russian-Israeli ties remain cordial and these two are far from the foes that some thought.<\/p>\n

It therefore never made sense to imagine that Putin, who\u00a0considers himself to be the consummate pragmatist<\/a>, would burn the bridge that he personally invested nearly a quarter-century of his time building with Bibi between their two nations. After all, Putin\u00a0boasted<\/a>\u00a0in 2019 that \u201cRussians and Israelis have ties of family and friendship. This is a true common family; I can say this without exaggeration. Almost 2 million Russian speakers live in Israel. We consider Israel a Russian-speaking country.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was speaking before the\u00a0Keren Heyesod Foundation<\/a>, one of the world\u2019s oldest Zionist lobbying organizations, during its annual conference in Moscow that year. Whenever members of the AMC were confronted with these \u201cpolitically inconvenient\u201d facts from official and authoritative sources such as the Kremlin\u2019s own website, they spun a \u201c5D chess master plan\u201d conspiracy theory alleging that he was just \u201cpsyching out the Zionists\u201d. Top influencers also aggressively \u201ccanceled\u201d anyone who brought this up.<\/p>\n

The end result was that these false perceptions of Russian-Israeli relations as well as Putin\u2019s own views towards this subject continued to proliferate unchallenged through the AMC, thus leading to the impression that they were secretly allied with Iran due to their allegedly shared anti-Zionist ideals. This notion became a matter of dogma for many in the AMC and correspondingly turned into an axiom of International Relations for them. Anyone who claimed otherwise was smeared as a \u201cZionist\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s now known after Russia didn\u2019t lift a finger to save the Resistance that they were never actually allies. Some of those that still can\u2019t accept that they\u2019ve been lied to by trusted AMC influencers who duped them for self-interested reasons (clout, ideology, and\/or soliciting donations) now speculate that Russia \u201cbetrayed\u201d the Resistance and \u201csold out to the Zionists\u201d even though Russia was never on either\u2019s side. If they don\u2019t soon shake off their cognitive dissonance, they\u2019ll detach themselves further from reality.<\/p>\n

In retrospect, Russia dodged a bullet by wisely choosing not to ally with the now-defeated Resistance Axis since it would have needlessly ruined its relations with Israel, the undisputable victor of the West Asian Wars. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Putin made the right choice, which was always driven by his rational calculation of what was in Russia\u2019s objective interests as a state, not due to \u201cZionist influence\u201d like some in the AMC now ridiculously claim to defame him after being mad that he didn\u2019t lift a finger to save the Resistance.<\/p>\n

The takeaways from this are several:<\/strong> 1) Putin and his representatives don\u2019t play \u201c5D chess\u201d, they always say what they truly mean; 2) Russia isn\u2019t anti-Israel nor anti-Zionist, but it also isn\u2019t anti-Iran nor anti-Resistance either; 3) the AMC is full of charlatans who, for self-interested reasons, tell their audience whatever they think they want to hear; 4) their audience should thus hold them to account for lying about Russian-Israeli and Russian-Resistance relations; 5) and the AMC requires urgent reform.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nThu, 12\/12\/2024 – 17:00<\/span><\/p>\n

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