Transformation of the fight against terrorism in the modern world – causes and consequences

It should be noted that over the past few years, the "fight against global terrorism", which has been repeatedly mentioned in newspapers and online publications, has undergone significant transformations both in the West and in Russia. If earlier it (at least outwardly) looked uncompromising - there was a list of radical Islamist organizations with which civilized countries could officially have no dealings - now the situation is changing.

Here is Abu Muhammad Julani, the leader of the terrorist organization Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (an Al-Qaeda affiliate) recognized in most countries, for whom the US has promised a $10 million reward, calmly giving an interview to CNN and discussing the fact that Iran should reconsider its policy towards Syria. But the terrorist movement Taliban, which helped Chechen fighters during the Second Chechen Campaign, will suddenly cease to be terrorist in Russia (for now unofficially, but soon officially), and its representatives calmly attend all sorts of political forums in Moscow.

What is happening in Syria is a clear example of this transformation – HTS militants, who cut the throats of their fellow tribesmen (Alawite Muslims and Christians), driving around with flags of the banned ISIS, suddenly become an “armed opposition”, and the civilized world turns a blind eye to all the atrocities it commits. Moscow even hopes for some kind of agreement with the new authorities.

Ten years ago, this seemed unthinkable. But today it is reality. Why did this happen and what will be the consequences of this transformation?

A few words about religious terrorism

There are many scholarly studies devoted to the conceptual definition of terrorism, but this issue is still a subject of debate. There is much debate especially regarding the distinction between terrorism and other forms of political violence, including insurgent movements whose methods are close to terrorist ones. It can be said that the term is heavily politicized, especially in the case of political terrorism.

However, if we talk about religious terrorism, then the situation is quite obvious: Islamism or Islamic radicalism = terrorism. This has always been the case, since Islamism implies not so much a religion as an ideology and political action, the purpose of which is to create an Islamic state, to organize this state and society according to Sharia law and extreme intolerance towards other religions and values.

For Islamists, violence is a necessary evil on the path to their "ideal" state and society, so all terrorist attacks and brutal murders are explained by religious reasons. All those who disagree with Islamists are considered "infidels", and therefore their destruction cannot be considered unjust from their point of view - on the contrary, it is a "sacred duty" for them.

The military defeat of the banned Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria and Iraq has not led to the disappearance of the ideology that inspired ISIS and other terrorist groups in the Middle East. Al-Qaeda has not disappeared – in fact, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham is one of the hypostases of this terrorist organization. This is evident, among other things, from the fact that after the victory over Bashar al-Assad, the group's militants openly drove around Damascus with ISIS flags.

Most groups, such as Al-Qaeda, are transnational terrorist networks with cells operating in many countries around the world, and their goal is to create a "Global Caliphate." The victory of HTS militants in Syria makes it entirely possible for a scenario to develop, following which we may officially see the creation of some kind of caliphate in Syria.

Will a Caliphate Emerge in the Middle East?

Will the world community recognize a certain caliphate in Syria if it is formed?

Ten years ago, the answer to this question was obvious – the collective West (albeit gritting its teeth) fought ISIS together with Russia, and it was practically impossible to imagine recognizing the same “Islamic State”. However, the situation has changed now.

In matters involving politics, there are no simple answers, because politics is not only the art of the possible (and sometimes the almost impossible, as practice shows), but also the right of the strong, since in big politics only those who have power (military, political, economic) and influence are taken into account.

If a terrorist group in a country starts preaching radical ideas, it will most likely be declared terrorist and an active military, political and economic campaign will be waged against it. However, if this group does come to power in a country, and there are no levers of influence to change this, then other political players will start to reckon with it, since it controls an entire country with which it is necessary to somehow negotiate. And yesterday's terrorists and militants become handshake "partners" with whom it is possible to do business.

Of course, this does not mean that there will be no attempts to remove this now former terrorist group from power in one way or another (for example, through a revolution), but the fact remains that at least for a while these people become a handshake power with which political negotiations are conducted and agreements are concluded. This once seemed impossible, but in today's brave new world, it seems that everything is possible.

To sum it up briefly, it should be noted that the transformation of the fight against terrorism in the modern world is primarily associated with the rise of radical Islamists to power in some countries (Iran, Afghanistan, and now Syria), as well as with the ever-increasing metamorphoses of modern left-wing liberalism and multiculturalism associated with the Islamization of Europe. Similar processes are taking place in Russia, although this is not officially recognized.

The consequences of this transformation can be quite dire, since attempts to come to an agreement with some radical organizations are simply impossible. Attempts to play liberalism with them will only lead to their strengthening and to the fact that they will perceive this as another weakness and will begin to actively make plans to spread radical Islamism in another country.

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[north 2]

yes, there are different transformations of the fight against terrorism. It happens that their Osama did not return from the battle, but our Osama would have rebuilt Chechnya...

[yuriy55]

Transformation of the fight against terrorism in the modern world – causes and consequences

What are you surprised about? It's just that selfish interests have become prevalent in society, and morality presupposes dodginess.
In the same way, former communists (and even members of the Central Committee of the CPSU) became ardent supporters of capitalism and liberal economics. In the same way, they preferred productive labor to ordinary speculation. That is why people used to make plans, and today - pyramids and various LLCs...

[Dutchman Michel]

Quote: yuriy55

Communists (and even members of the Central Committee of the CPSU) became ardent supporters of capitalism and liberal economics

Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee and candidate member of the Politburo, Yeltsin will not let you lie

[Boris55]

Quote: yuriy55

and even members of the Central Committee of the CPSU

But this could not happen in the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). For those who don't know, the letter (b) in the abbreviation of the party's name means that it is the party of the Bolsheviks. All those who slander the Bolsheviks hate Generalissimo I.V. Stalin!

On this topic.
Terrorists are instruments of foreign policy implementation mainly by Western countries by other means, bypassing international law. Basically, all terrorist organizations are financed by banks controlled by the USA.

The purpose of terrorist acts is to intimidate society. The media are used to intimidate the largest number of people. The longer and more they "savour" this or that terrorist act, the more they contribute to the spread of terror. Information must be given - dryly, "teletype", one-time, without "pictures". "Savoring" is not acceptable!

[Victor Leningradets]

Boris Leontievich!
Have you ever seen a single Bolshevik (not of Stalin's make, and not of the Trotskyist draft, but a real one, with underground experience)? Have you ever talked to one?
Well, then don't throw around slogans that have nothing to do with reality. The RSDLP(b) - the parent of the All-Union Communist Party (b) at that time was precisely such a terrorist, subversive, but ideologically pure force, which, having saddled the people's discontent, managed to come to power. Moreover, the decisive one was precisely the "peasant question", to which the Bolsheviks responded with the "Decree on Land" copied from the Socialist Revolutionaries, which in fact meant a call for terror against landowners and the plunder of the loot.
Once in power, the Bolsheviks were FORCED to become statists, to fight terror, sabotage, anarchy and banditry, and also to throw off the fig leaves of romantic dreams and remake the outdated RSDLP(b) into the RCP(b), and then into the VKP(b). And the further departure from the utopian forms of building socialism led to its transformation into the CPSU and subsequent inevitable defeat.

[Boris55]

Quote: Victor Leningradets

Have you ever seen a single Bolshevik (not of Stalin's make, and not of the Trotskyist draft, but a real one, with underground experience)? Have you ever talked to one?

And you - saw? Did you talk about it?

Quote: Victor Leningradets

... having harnessed popular discontent, they managed to come to power.
...once in power, the Bolsheviks were FORCED to become statists...

"There is such a party!" Do you know what these words are, when, where and by whom they were spoken?

Quote: Victor Leningradets

The Bolsheviks responded with a "Decree on Land" copied from the Socialist Revolutionaries, which in fact meant a call for terror against landowners

What bad Social Revolutionaries...

The terror did not begin with the Bolsheviks coming to power, but much later, and was unleashed by the Whites, who had sworn allegiance to the new masters (the Entente) and their henchmen. Some wanted to continue to be lords, others simply wanted to live.

Only thanks to the Bolsheviks and more than half of the officer corps of the Tsarist General Staff, they managed to save Russia.

Many thanks and a deep bow to them for saving Russia!
(Who said it and where, do you know? "Everything is lost, Russia no longer exists"?)

Quote: Victor Leningradets

And the further departure from utopian forms of building socialism led to its transformation into the CPSU and subsequent inevitable defeat.

In 1952, the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was renamed the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). The letter (b) was no longer in the party's new name. After the death of I.V. Stalin, Trotskyists came to power. The purge of Stalin's cadres began. The country's turn from building socialism to capitalism began. Under Khrushchev, the slogan was: "We will catch up and overtake America," which meant putting the USSR at the tail end of the West, with all the ensuing consequences.

[Victor Leningradets]

And you - saw? Did you talk about it?

Imagine that - yes!
My grandmother (a member of the RCP(b) since 1919) met with old Bolsheviks, who still had underground experience. They all left when I was still a baby, but later, when I became older, my grandmother and I talked about them, she told me what the First World War, the Revolution, the Civil War were, and how everything really happened.

"There is such a party!" Do you know what these words are, when, where and by whom they were spoken?

I should know! They taught and passed. Only these are all MEANS to seize power. And then - the World Revolution, though, obviously. Lenin's genius is not in the accomplishment of the Revolution as such, but in its salvation and creative development, when reality fell upon the victors with its cold, even chilling shower.

The terror did not begin with the Bolsheviks coming to power, but much later, and was unleashed by the Whites, who had sworn allegiance to the new masters (the Entente) and their henchmen. Some wanted to continue to be lords, others simply wanted to live.

Only thanks to the Bolsheviks and more than half of the officer corps of the Tsarist General Staff, they managed to save Russia. Many thanks and a deep bow to them for saving Russia!

Touched, you just bowed to my grandfather. Whom this very grandmother saved from reprisal in the hospital during that very Revolution. And you are terror!
And a crowd of deserters slaughtering a landowner's family and plundering the estate - is that a triumph of justice in your opinion? That happened too...
And another grandmother (incidentally a witness of the Great October - a maid in the general's apartment on Millionnaya), who told me that there was no assault, it was just that some ran away and others occupied the palace. And about the revolutionary sailors: don't believe them - they were not a drunken gang, as the liberals are now trying to portray, tall, fit guys with iron discipline. Or later, during the Civil War, when she was sailing with grain barges along the Volga, when bandits (of the most proletarian type) attacked, and the Jewish commissar simply took out his Mauser and killed several on the spot, the rest ran away. It turned out that for me this is not a distant history, but the memories of my relatives.
The slogan "Catch up and overtake!" is the slogan of the first Five-Year Plans. The machine was called "DIP", I remember them.

[depressant]

Well, let's turn to the original source. Lenin on terror against the Russian people:

"I see with horror, by God with horror, that they have been talking about bombs for more than six months and not a single one has been made!.. Let detachments of 3 to 10, 30, etc. people be organized immediately. Let them arm themselves immediately, as best they can, some with a revolver, some with a knife, some with a rag soaked in kerosene for arson... Some will immediately undertake the murder of a spy, the explosion of a police station, others - an attack on a bank to confiscate funds... Let each detachment itself learn at least by beating up policemen: dozens of victims will be more than compensated for by the hundreds of experienced fighters they will provide... Even without weapons, detachments can play a very serious role... climbing to the tops of houses, to the upper floors, etc., and showering the army with stones, pouring boiling water on them... Practical work, we repeat, must be started immediately. They are divided into preparatory and military operations. preparatory work includes obtaining all kinds of weapons and all kinds of ammunition, finding conveniently located apartments for street fighting (convenient for fighting from above, for storing bombs or stones, etc., or acids for pouring on policemen... The murder of spies, policemen, gendarmes, blowing up police stations, freeing those arrested, confiscating government funds... such operations are already being carried out everywhere... Detachments of the revolutionary army must immediately study who, where and how the Black Hundreds are made up, and then not limit themselves to preaching alone (this is useful, but this alone is not enough), but also act with armed force, beating up the Black Hundreds, killing them, blowing up their headquarters, etc., etc."
Lenin
October (16th and later) 1905
(Lenin V.I. Complete Works. Vol. 11. Pp. 336-337, 338, 340, 343.)

[parusnik]

And what's more, his advice spread around the world, for example: almost exactly the same methods were used by the Sandinistas against the Nicaraguan people, led by Somoza, in 1978, during the first uprising. But going back to 1905-1907, it is gratifying that the army and the Ministry of Internal Affairs quite quickly dealt with more than 20000 peasant uprisings, with a dozen self-proclaimed republics, and army and navy uprisings. But the most important thing during this period was that brother did not go against brother, and no tragedy occurred, as in the civil war. In time, those who needed to be hanged, shot, and flogged. They did not reach Lenin, he ran away.

[depressant]

They couldn't reach Lenin, he ran away.

And there is a fresh photo in the telegram, in which an eastern ISIS communist makes a dua in honor of Lenin, standing in front of the Mausoleum.
I was amazed. The quote I gave is known to few, and those who know it, hush it up - it's inconvenient. But THEY know!

[parusnik]

In short, the mausoleum needs to be boarded up completely. And to protect it from worship, even when boarded up, a monument to I. Ilyin needs to be erected, and not just a monument, but a stele with the names of I. Ilyin and others like him. To eliminate such phenomena.

[depressant]

To exclude such phenomena.

How can we exclude them? Well, I had a recipe, I laid it out a few years ago, when here on VO, the conversation turned to Dyumin. My proposal was that politicians and oligarchs would split into two conditional parties, equally possessing not only material resources, but also the support of the security forces, put forward worthy candidates for president and fight for power. Let's say, conservatives and something like visionaries (progressives). Each would promise the people goodies, and in case of failure to fulfill them, the other would come to power - through elections. But the people would still get something.
But no. This doesn't burn out.
As a result, bad intentions of a terrorist nature begin to mature in society. For example, the so-called Partisans. I learned about them a long time ago, even before coming to VO - on Roman Babayan's talk show on TV. Their leader spoke, saying, we are preparing and training detachments. It was a shock for me. And now, when I still had YouTube, I discovered the Partisan organization in the person of Vyacheslav Vyacheslavovich Maltsev, the Pomidor channel. They say, we blow up, kill and burn. I appealed to his conscience - how can one work against one's own people and public property, and in such a barbaric way? But terrorists do not understand such appeals - in a situation when it is impossible to convey one's protest in any other way, say, through elections.
As for the Asians, we are not their country, and that says it all.

[parusnik]

which actually meant a call for terror against landowners and the plundering of the loot.

Yeah, in 1905-1907 the landowners and capitalists were able to curb the terror against themselves, they didn't give up the land, they shot, hanged and flogged those they needed. And it wasn't a tragedy. Brother didn't go against brother, right? But the years of the civil war were a tragedy, brother went against brother. The scoundrels, the Bolsheviks, legalized the peasant robbery of the landowners' land, which belonged to them by right. It's not for nothing that the governments that came to power, having overthrown the bloody power of the Bolsheviks, canceled the Decree on Land first of all, restored justice, by the way, these governments included socialists: Mensheviks and right-wing Socialist Revolutionaries. Finally, justice triumphed in 1991. Socialism is a utopia, a reality, fair capitalism, social partnership, equal opportunities for all strata of the population, if you don’t like being a mechanic, you can go into business and become a billionaire, the owner of factories, newspapers, steamships. And it’s easy, you take out loans from Sovcombank and in a month you’re a billionaire, well, in two. That’s how it is.
Russia and become billionaires and their number is now growing. Fair competition, etc. Russia has not yet achieved this ideal, because, for several decades now, the president has been surrounded by enemies from the fifth, sixth and seventh columns, they are the ones who are preventing the construction of a fair capitalist society in Russia.

[yuriy55]

Dear Alexey!
I understand that your message is -
Only after reading this:

Quote: parusnik

Socialism is a utopia, reality, fair capitalism, social partnership, equal opportunities for all segments of the population, if you don’t like being a mechanic, you can go into business and become a billionaire, the owner of factories, newspapers, steamships.

[Doccor18]

Quote: Boris55

The media is used to intimidate the largest number of people.

How is that? And I thought that the media is the mouthpiece of democracy...

[AdAstra]

Well, everything is correct - democracy, only democracy of the democracy that is needed.

[Doccor18]

Quote: Boris55

Savoring" is not permissible!

What, do you want to deprive all the media of profit, that's all they live on...
Once, by chance, in the lobby of a public institution, I saw on the TV screen how they were "savoring" a terrible beating of a girl by a man. They repeated it five times... Apparently, a trend.

[Stas157]

Quote: yuriy55

In the same way, former communists (and even members of the CPSU Central Committee) became ardent supporters of capitalism

Not all. No need to paint it with black paint. This applies to the party bureaucracy. To the bureaucrats. Ordinary communists rarely became supporters of capitalism. And non-communists too! The majority of the country 76,4% voted to preserve the USSR in a nationwide referendum. Does that tell you anything?

[yuriy55]

Quote: Stas157

Not all. No need to smear it with black paint.

Dear Stas!
I assume that you are many years old and you must understand that in this matter the leading role belongs to those "communists" who rushed to the helm and oars in a race... But they did not raise the fighters to attack by their example and did not work on subbotniks. By the way, do you know why the current leaders do not have photos from such events? Maybe somewhere there, in the depths of the tables, they keep photos from May Day demonstrations, subbotniks, collection of scrap metal and waste paper, from tree planting, from agricultural work?
Well, that's a shame... At that time they were learning the laws of the streets...
And the rank-and-file communists and non-party members were, for the most part, deeply decent people...

[Nikolay Malyugin]

As Hugo said, "Peace is the quiet digestion of happiness." War breeds radicals on all sides. And the absence of ideology contributes to this. Some people know how to present negativity as a good thing. And they show the "renaissance of Islam in Russia" as a good side. Improving demographics, employment in jobs. "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." Starting with raising children and ending with taking into account your citizens, you can avoid any kind of negativity. We teach children patriotism without creating anything new. Where are the new songs for children, books, films. We reason - it will settle down by itself. No. It will not.

[sunwenmin]

Definition of a terrorist: against us - a terrorist, for us - a rebel, a revolutionary, etc. This was the case before, only not so openly.
And again, everything is tied to ideology. In fact, Islamism is the only "living" ideology left on a global scale that gives a purpose for existence and paradise in the long term. And the West has nothing to oppose. Christianity is in decline, global liberal values ​​postulate that paradise is already here, eat and get fat. And if you don't want it, you're a terrorist.
So until humanity itself answers the question “what do we want, what are we willing to sacrifice for”, then the development and expansion of all kinds of “Islamic states” on the bright path to Sharia is inevitable.

[parusnik]

A wedge is driven out with a wedge.. What ideology can "progressive" humanity oppose to Islamic extremism? For example, in the same Afghanistan.. having renounced the ideology of socialism, the Soviet leadership recommended that Najibullah do the same, and he renounced it.. The bright Western world returned "dead meat" to power, "dead meat" was painted over, galvanized, but it was not possible to create a Frankenstein monster, and as a result, "teachers" came to power, who with their extremist ideas quickly taught the Afghans how to live. I will not go into detail about where the teachers came from, why they were created, who created them.. That is already the tenth matter.. But the fact remains a fact, the decaying West and the new multipolar world cannot oppose their ideology.. "The world is a desman" (c)

[P]

There is no need to oppose ideology to Islamic extremism. Education, a secular state, accessible work for citizens and national policy (for example, visas, educational qualifications for entry, etc.) are enough, and of course, a stump for priests from schools. For everyone and from everywhere.

[IVZ]

If earlier it (at least outwardly) seemed uncompromising – there was a list of radical Islamist organizations with which civilized countries officially could not have any dealings – now the situation is changing.

Well, nothing has changed in principle. It's just that when some group gains strength, military or economic, which can no longer be ignored due to geography, for example, or economics, well, you have to change your attitude towards it. Politics is just the art of the possible - a specific art and not always (rarely) clean.

[Alexey Davydov]

Terrorism arises where the state and the foundations of society weaken.
The destructive forces that they had previously suppressed are given the opportunity to develop and create their own ugly micro-organizations, quasi-armies and quasi-states within the system. This natural process is used by the US/UK for the controlled destruction of the existing structure of the world and its change in their interests.
The alternative to the controlled chaos of Satanists is the socialist ideology and practice of building a strong and lasting just society in individual countries and on the planet as a whole in the interests of the peoples of the world and all of humanity.

[Alexey Davydov]

The breeding ground for terrorism is injustice and dissatisfaction of certain groups of the population with the existing order of things, which is characteristic of socio-economic formations based on oppression and the violent preservation of injustice and inequality.
Purposeful, systematic and thoughtful work on harmonizing people's lives distinguishes a socialist society, the natural goal of which is the equality and well-being of the entire people, all its nationalities. In such a society, it is very difficult for hostile forces to find support.

[Vladimir-TTT]

Quote: Alexey Davydov

Purposeful, systematic and thoughtful work on harmonizing people's lives distinguishes a socialist society, the natural goal of which is the equality and well-being of the entire people, all its nationalities. In such a society, it is very difficult for hostile forces to find support.

Russia is not threatened by this. Quite the contrary - this nutrient medium is being intensively cultivated.

[Alexey Davydov]

It only seems to us that we are spectators in this hall.
In fact, we, together with our children and loved ones, for whom we are responsible, are the characters in this performance, sentenced by the owner to destruction along with the country.
We follow the shepherds to the European slaughterhouse - decent, law-abiding citizens.

[Vladimir-TTT]

Quote: Alexey Davydov

In fact, we are the characters in this performance, sentenced by the owner of the colony to destruction along with the country.

With the full cooperation of the condemned. And they also resist very strongly (the condemned) when they try to take away the rope for hanging.

Quote: Alexey Davydov

Decent, law-abiding citizens.

Knowing for sure that everything they do is right.

[Alexey Davydov]

Knowing for sure that everything they do is right.

Television is a technology of mass anesthesia and hypnosis at home, tested by the Anglo-Saxons on many peoples.
In addition, people are afraid to face the truth because it may require them to take action, sacrifice, and risk. They have daily concerns in which they can always hide from the threatening future.
They don't care about the lives and future of themselves and their children if "everyone does it."
There is, however, a look that is hard to turn away from.
This is the view of our ancestors from the photographs of the Immortal Regiment, who gave their lives for this land.

[Alexey Davydov]

Well, and most importantly - if we are soon destined to all go to death camps, maybe it is not such a big risk to take a risk today in order to save the country?

[Million]

Will a Caliphate Emerge in the Middle East?

It might not appear in Russia. In some republics it may soon come.

[Yuras_Belarus]

"International terrorist" is a type of mercenary. A classic mercenary from the Middle Ages to the middle of the last century was a volunteer who signed a contract to participate in military operations with a representative of the employer. The end of the twentieth century gave birth to a special type of capitalist business - private military companies, which made it easier for employers to select mercenaries and train them. But PMCs have a more or less specific connection to states, and the authorities of these states do not always need to show off their connection with PMCs. And then the USSR sent troops to Afghanistan. Western intelligence services began to use groups of Muslim radicals and extremists to counter them. This experience was recognized in the West as a successful cover, and gradually these groups turned into "hidden PMCs" of the West for conducting special operations. If you now carefully dig into the connections of "international terrorists", then in 99,99% you will come across Americans, British and Israelis as customers.

[parusnik]

Western intelligence agencies have begun to use groups of Muslim radicals and extremists to counteract

To be completely precise, before the introduction of troops, before the April revolution, Muslim radicals and extremists were active on the territory of Afghanistan, and they later acted against the Soviet army. And for what? Because the government of Afghanistan became friends with the USSR.

[fa2998]

Quote: north 2

yes, there are different transformations in the fight against terrorism

And what do we call terrorism? After all, our state structures are called terrorists.
After all, a week ago ALL anti-Assad forces in Syria were called terrorists. Yesterday they were already "affectionately" called "opposition", tomorrow you see our officials will already be flocking to Damascus to establish mutual relations.

[Vladimir-TTT]

Quote: fa2998

After all, our government structures are called terrorists.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, called such actions political prostitution.

[Reklastik]

Politics, of course, is called the art of the possible. However, in essence, politics is a synonym for prostitution.

[Alexey Davydov]

I think that this concept itself is not guilty of anything - it all depends on who is implementing it. Prostitutes implement a policy of prostitution. Patriots implement a policy of patriotism.
The Russian government, for the above reasons, is still pursuing a policy of prostitution, which it calls patriotism.

[P]

politics = activity with the purpose of seizing and maintaining power. What rubber mugs portray on TV is not politics, but mostly a show. And shows are always made by individuals of easy behavior

[Reklastik]

I read the press, I don't watch TV. That's where politicians speak out in interviews. Shows don't interest me, I don't have the time or desire for that.

[P]

exactly the same mugs. You consume the same content as everyone else, just in a different form

[Reklastik]

No, because those mugs aren't on the show. So no, I don't consume the same content as those who watch the show.

[P]

Terror as a tool and terrorism as its systematic use have long been the norm in the policies of leading countries through the creation or hiring of organizations created specifically for this purpose, and the same norm for weak countries and organizations through the direct implementation of this terror. By the way, guerrilla warfare is not directly connected with terrorism and equating these two concepts is a banal illiterate move. As well as equating revolution with a coup, this is already a clear bottom.

[futurohunter]

The transformation occurred because, unlike the small terrorist groups of the past that scared the population with terrorist attacks, we see private armies. In my opinion, they can no longer be called terrorists. They may not practice terrorist attacks in the classical sense (hostage taking, explosions and murders). Rather, they are some quasi-military formations that achieve their political goals. The goals can be very simple - to grab a piece of territory with some resources and simply rob it. In this regard, they are no different from Banderovites and similar large gangs. All these jihadists essentially grew out of criminal groups. It's just that such private armies have customers. Otherwise, these armies would not exist.
As for Islam. "Islam" is used as a cover for the same banal robbery with the destruction of witnesses. There is no hint of Sharia here. It's just that the appetites of some kingpins are growing... And they want "their own country". Organized crime evolves like this. At first, the "godfathers" operate on the street. Then they start "solving problems". If the state hits them on the head at that moment, then they build their own system of power.
Regarding proxies... It's a pity that Russia doesn't have its own proxies. Well, I'm not suggesting any Taliban or other "free armies". But there is Marshal Haftar and others... Who wouldn't mind fighting for us. On condition of appropriate "help".