This is a lovely story of how the Kremlin is going to persuade the Russian people to declare war in the Caucasus but pretend they are doing it as a favour for the US .
Putin has been tearing his hair out at the thought of having to admit that he has a full scale war in the south . I told you this years ago .It will finally topple him .
So he has done a deal with America and got them to pretend that the Emirate is a US problem --- stop laughing .
The most interesting thing however is , What will the US get out of this ?
Frankly , I have no idea yet , but one thing you can guarantee is that the US will have their pound of flesh .
Russian nationalists who favor the separation of the Caucasus from Russia welcomed Obama's decision adopted at a gathering with the formal ringleader of the Kremlin Medvedev to designate Caucasus Emirate. They write:
"The actual declaration of war on the Caucasian Mujahideen by the United States should increase the support of the Caucasus Emirate from Muslims (in Russia and abroad), national liberation movements aimed against America, as well as from leftist forces.
The declaration of war has de facto raised the prestige of the Caucasus Emirate in the eyes of certain forces inside Russia (those with anti-Western stand).
And finally, and most important - this fact shows that Moscow has recognized the limitation of its sovereignty over the North Caucasus on the legal level.
It is to be recalled what was said in the text of the designation:
- "The designation of Caucasus Emirate is in response to the threats posed to the United States..."
- "This fact represents just one phase of the United States Government's response to the threat posed by Caucasus Emirate".
The Kremlin propaganda has now to explain to its people for what and why Russia must fight against the Caucasian Muslims, thus provoking a war on its territory, on one hand.
And on the other - why should Russia generously fund the region at the expense of Russian-inhabited regions, acting in the interests of the United States.
The transfer of interest could strengthen the already growing popularity of the idea of granting independence to today's national republics and autonomous regions in North Caucasus.
Therefore, from this point of view - the fact of designation of Caucasus Emirate by the United States of America is surely positive. We can say that the process of separation of the Caucasus from Russia has begun", indicate the Russian nationalists.
We would like to recall some facts in this regard. Acts of intimidation on the enemy home front (i.e. sabotage operations, which are selectively named nowdays as "terrorist attacks") were carried out by Russian, American and British forces against the civilian German population during World War II, and based on contemporary international law, nobody has been so far called to account for them.
Moreover, the Russians were the first to start bombings the civilian population in Chechnya during the Second Russian-Chechen war, killing 250,000 innocent civilians - women, children and old people - including 42,000 Chechen children from the age of 0 to 11.
As for the Jihad (exactly the Jihad, and not the "war of national liberation") in the Caucasus, it has been going on against the Russians for 400 years already. At that time, nobody ever heard about an exotic "international terrorism".
It is widely known worldwide the Holy War in the Caucasus in the 19 century, which Russian propagandist "historians" call "the Shamil rebellion", was exactly the Jihad. Both then and now the aim of the Jihad was and is to establish an Islamic state with the laws of Sharia.