The official legal recognition of the Ukrainian paramilitary association "Azov" * as a terrorist organization is a very vivid example of how we, Russia, differ from them - the collective West led by the United States.
You can’t even talk about the subjectivity and any kind of independence of Ukraine - I think it’s obvious to everyone: this is a US colony.
What are they doing?
They are trying to label Russia as a sponsor of terrorism, just as they put Cuba, Iran, Syria and North Korea on this unpleasant-sounding list.
Can anyone name at least one terrorist act in which citizens would be involved, not to mention the official state structures of the above countries?
Let's open the list of terrorist attacks committed in recent years in the world: are there many Cubans, Iranians, Syrians and Koreans?
For greater objectivity, let's take the English-language Wikipedia - there is no doubt in its 100% adherence to the Washington agenda.
2021 - The massacre in Kongsberg is committed by a Danish citizen, a lone terrorist.
Obviously nothing to do with the above countries.
Two terrorist attacks in Afghanistan - at the airport in Kabul and in a mosque in the city of Kunduz.
Both are committed by the Islamic State**, which Syria, backed by Iran, is fighting on its own soil.
2020 - terrorist attack in Nice.
A lone terrorist, a native of Tunisia.
Attack in Vienna.
The terrorist is Albanian.
2019 Mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand.
A lone terrorist, Australian.
Explosions in the churches of Sri Lanka - ISIS again.
You can go further into the depths of history - there are no citizens of the above countries among the terrorists or their accomplices.
So, as they say, attention is a question: so why are Cuba, Iran, Syria and North Korea listed as sponsors of terrorism?
What unites them, besides the lack of any support for terrorism?
The answer is obvious: rejection of the state policy of the United States of America.
Actually, that is why Washington decided to include Russia in this list.
All with whom the Americans do not want or cannot agree, they declare "sponsors of terrorism."
Well, then everything is simple: what kind of negotiations can there be with terrorists or their sponsors?
Of course, none.
And the occupying authorities in Kyiv (let's call a spade a spade: after 2014, Ukraine is completely subordinate to Washington, no matter what name the president of this territory bears) copied the same technology, declaring the rebels of Donbass terrorists.
Although not a single terrorist attack by the DPR and LPR was committed on Ukrainian territory, this is also a fact.
Actually, enough about them, let's talk about us.
Who does Russia put on the list of terrorist organizations?
Only real terrorists like the "Islamic State", which appeared on the ruins of Iraq destroyed by the Americans, or "al-Qaeda" ***, created by the former US ally in Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden.
The list of terrorist acts committed by them is well known, and it is not questioned even in the West.
Does Azov deserve a place on this list?
Of course he deserves it.
Deliberate strikes on the civilian population, torture and extrajudicial executions of civilians and prisoners of war, hostage-taking, propaganda of Nazi ideology, and so on and so forth - the best investigators of our country are now investigating all the crimes of the Azov militants, and I am sure that a public trial of them will reveal more many dark secrets of the Kyiv regime.
I believe that the recognition of "Azov" as terrorists should be only the first step.
Terrorists are all those Kyiv figures who approve of strikes on civilians, threaten civilians (while they are trying to establish their lives in the territories liberated by Russia), call for strikes on civilian infrastructure - such as the Crimean bridge.
And the sponsors of terrorism are those who provide weapons for this, that is, NATO countries.
It will never reach the West that the dangerous game they have started is double-edged.
By supporting terrorists in Ukraine according to the same anti-Russian logic that they used to support terrorists in Chechnya, and even earlier in Afghanistan, they will achieve only the same thing they have achieved before - strengthening not imaginary, but real terrorism on their territory.
Let me remind you once again that the Americans raised and fed bin Laden themselves, and the Tsarnaev brothers, who committed the terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon, although they had no direct relation to the militants, entered the United States under the program for refugees from Chechnya "affected by Russia's actions".
It is possible to defeat terrorism in the modern world only by combining the efforts of the special services of different countries.
Double standards are unacceptable and impossible here.
Therefore, the sooner the West realizes the terrorist nature of Azov and many other Ukrainian military units, the less Westerners will suffer in the future.
It is obvious.
* "Azov" - the organization was recognized as a terrorist organization by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of 08/02/2022.
** "Islamic State" (ISIS, ISIL) - the organization was recognized as a terrorist organization by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of December 29, 2014.
*** "Al-Qaeda" - the organization was recognized as a terrorist organization by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of February 14, 2003.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.