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2020 was undoubtedly a challenging year, both for the world as a whole and for its Muslim population. Globally, the main event of the year was, of course, the coronavirus pandemic, which highlighted human vulnerability and helplessness. These events became a soft version of the destruction of the Tower of Babel or Noah’s flood, where arrogant and self-proclaimed omnipotent humans were overwhelmed by an unexpected force greater than their own. Although the apocalypse did not occur in 2020, what we witnessed could be considered a scaled-down version or a rehearsal. It turned out that even a small and relatively harmless virus could bring global civilization, with all its grand plans for artificial intelligence, universal robotization, exploration of new planets, reaching the singularity, etc., to its knees. Towards the end of 2020, a solution to this not-so-great problem seems to have been found through traditional vaccination methods. However, until enough people are vaccinated, many will still fall victim to the virus in 2021. Nevertheless, humanity has been given a reprieve. And this means that the ongoing struggle between different communities, nations, countries, civilizations and groups, divided by different characteristics and principles, will continue. However, this struggle will continue in 2020, and in some areas it will even intensify, despite the global problems. From this perspective, it can be said that 2020 was a turning point for several countries and peoples that are of great importance for the Islamic Ummah.
Without exaggeration, the most significant event of the year was the Second Karabakh War. In addition to its significance as a patriotic war for the Azerbaijani people, it became a key political event of the past year for the entire Ummah. What exactly does this mean? With rare exceptions, throughout the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, when Muslims clashed with the forces of the so-called Judeo-Christian civilization (a term introduced not by us but by the enemies of Islam), there was a «slaughter of infants». Acts of heroism and self-sacrifice, belief in victory, and willingness to go to the end-all these qualities, which in military science are called «moral superiority,» were usually on the side of the Muslims. In many cases, Muslim warriors and commanders also demonstrated feats of military skill, maneuverability, and the ability to effectively resist an overwhelmingly superior enemy. In most of these cases, however, the result could be described by the formula «the system beats the class. That is, military machines, sometimes led by mediocre generals, with demoralized soldiers and officers, relying on technical, organizational and resource superiority, eventually crushed the Muslim heroes.
When the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War began, many military analysts who followed the news from both sides noticed that Armenian propagandists were portraying the war as previous conflicts had been portrayed by information activists of defeated Muslim groups. That is to say, if the Azerbaijani side reported the successes of a technically superior and highly organized military machine, the Armenian propagandists could only rely on the heroism of their soldiers. We want our readers to understand correctly — this does not mean that we consider Armenian soldiers more heroic than Azerbaijani soldiers — there are numerous examples to the contrary. Simply put, based on the experience of various wars, when military propaganda relies solely on the heroism and personal qualities of soldiers, it does not bode well for that side — heroism can sometimes achieve miracles, but in classic wars of attrition, victory usually goes to those who have superiority in organization and technology.
And so, in the Second Karabakh War, we witnessed something we had long forgotten — the complete organizational, technical, resource, informational, legal, and diplomatic superiority of a Muslim country over a side that emphasized its Christianity. And if the Muslims usually fought with Kalashnikovs against the enemy’s airplanes and drones and lost in the end, this time it was exactly the opposite — the Muslim army defeated the Crusaders thanks to superiority not only in class but also in system.
All these events became a vivid illustration of what the authors of «Golos Islam» wrote about in connection with the unsuccessful Muslim wars in the Middle East. In particular, in 2018 we published an article by Harun Sidarov titled «The Tails of Cows» and «War Horses,» which pointed out the inadequacy of a romantic-heroic attitude toward war and the use of well-known hadiths about jihad without taking into account and understanding modern realities. Until now, however, such an approach could be considered defeatist, because in addition to theoretical considerations, we had only examples of how Muslims acted wrongly. The Second Karabakh War became a concrete positive example of this approach, showing how Muslims can act correctly. And last night, the leader and commander-in-chief of the victorious state, Ilham Aliyev, described in detail how the victory was achieved and what it took (https://golosislama.com/news.php?id=39450).
But while 2020 ended for the Muslims with the defeat of the crusaders in Karabakh, it began with the defeat of the rebel forces led by Khalifa Haftar, who reversed the course of the war in Libya. This was preceded in late 2019 by a counteroffensive by pro-Turkish Syrian forces that halted the advance of the Putinists and Assadists in northern Syria, allowing them to retain a Sunni stronghold that was not under the control of the Alawite regime.
But what unites these three wars? Geopolitically, it is that in all cases Turkey stood behind the victors, led by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, relying on a coalition of the Justice and Development Party and the Nationalist Movement Party. For its foreign policy, 2020 was truly a turning point, because since the formation of this coalition and after the withdrawal from active politics in 2016 by the previous prime minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey had practically lost ground on the international stage, especially in clashes with its opponents, including Putin’s Russia. In 2020, everything changed — by stabilizing the situation in Syria, Turkey ensured the transition of its allies to a counter-offensive in Libya and, at the end of the year, helped its ally achieve a convincing victory in Karabakh.
In all these cases, the instrumental factor that determined the turning point in the course of the fighting was the Turkish unmanned aerial vehicle «Bayraktar» in its various modifications. Of course, it would be a big mistake to think that this factor made traditional means of warfare such as conventional aviation, artillery or tanks irrelevant. However, in 2020 more and more military experts were talking about how this factor became a new trump card in conducting military operations, and this trump card ended up in the hands of an ambitious Muslim country and its allies.
Historically, there is a deep symbolism in all this. The inventors of this revolutionary means of warfare were Turkey and its allies…