For those who haven’t seen it, we present the full video here https://youtu.be/MBGeFWj3DNw. Insulting remarks and blatant threats by Tigran Keosayan, the husband of the Kremlin’s main propagandist and host of one of Russia’s most trashy TV shows, against the sovereign state of Kazakhstan have become one of the main news stories in recent days.
So what should we pay attention to? First of all, the reason for such explicit threats is not the desire of a neighboring country to enter into a defensive alliance or military cooperation with foreign states, which was used as a justification for the attack on Ukraine. No, in order to become an enemy of Russia, which they threaten with the fate of Ukraine, you don’t even need that, although the right to join any alliances and cooperate with anyone is the right of every sovereign state. Now it is enough to simply cancel the military parade on Victory Day on May 9, as several Turkic-Muslim countries — Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan — decided to do this year.
Second, it proves once again what discerning people have been saying for a long time and what many naive Russians and citizens of other post-Soviet states still do not understand. The remembrance of the war, its victims and heroic deeds, the so-called Victory Day in Putin’s Russia, has long since turned into a true religious-political cult. And the acceptance or rejection of this cult and its symbols, such as St. George’s ribbons, military uniforms, pilotka hats, immortal regiments, «we can repeat» and so on, now serves as a clear indicator of who is in and who is out.
Similar to Islam, there are concepts of «ahel kibla» and «al wala’ wal bara'» in «vata», whereby one who accepts them shares the same «kibla» with them, and one who rejects them becomes «bara'». Therefore, anyone who understands what Islam is and considers himself a Muslim, not only by origin but by conviction, must reject these cults and not resemble the idolaters of «vata», not wear these St. George ribbons, not participate in these solemn events, and so on.
Third, pay attention to what this high-ranking Kremlin propagandist says at the end. He directly states that there are now only two options for all of Russia’s neighbors: either support Russia in its war against America and NATO, or become its enemy. No neutrality, no non-alignment, no multi-vector approach, which could have been played before, is possible anymore — you’re either with them and under them, or you’re their enemy.
In reality, such a clarification can only be welcomed. And when Keosayan suggests to the undecided neighbors of Mordor, which Putin’s Russia has become, to «look at Ukraine,» he is indeed right. The example of Ukraine teaches us that one must be ready to fight for sovereignty and the right to determine one’s own foreign and domestic policies.
Moreover, as we can see, Mordor cannot do much in the face of Ukraine’s total resistance, supported by the world. And what will happen if all the post-Soviet countries that want to be independent unite against his dictatorship? And if later the republics of the RF themselves remember that they once declared sovereignty, which is still enshrined in their constitutions?
Did Keosayan think about this, and do other Kremlin lackeys think about this when they make such statements? Hardly — if they knew how to think, they would not be in the state they are in now and will be in the future.