The Eastern Ukraine - Russia´s Northern Cyprus?

The illegal occupation of Northern Cyprus by Turkey has been going on for 48 years now - and neither the "EU", NATO, the US nor anyone else from the "Western community of values" has a problem with it. The Russian entry into Eastern Ukraine follows Turkey's example in Northern Cyprus - yet "the West" responds completely differently to the illegal Russian entry than it does to the illegal Turkish entry. Why? The Turkish occupation of Northern Cyprus very unmistakably formed the blueprint for the Russian occupation of Eastern Ukraine: in Cyprus, the Turkish minority was under nationalistic pressure from the Greek majority at the time, Turkey marched in in the role of a political protective force and then had a Turkish republic declared in Northern Cyprus. To this day, Turkey is the only country in the world that has recognized this so-called "Republic of Northern Cyprus."

So Putin's way of acting in Eastern Ukraine is almost exactly like Turkey's way of acting in Northern Cyprus: the Russian minority in Ukraine was under pressure from the nationalist Ukrainian central government, in areas with a Russian majority it came to the proclamation of its own republics, Russia marched in in the role of protective power, no doubt against international law, but so was the Turkish entry into Cyprus.

But in the case of the Turkish occupation of northern Cyprus, the law of nations is apparently not so important to the "western community of values." Sanctions against Turkey were never an issue. Far more, Turkey is being fed billions of dollars every year from the EU and is even an official "EU" accession candidate. For the "EU", NATO, the US and all those other representatives of the so-called "western community of values", who have apparently leased allegiance to international law for themselves, Turkey's illegal occupation of northern Cyprus is absolutely not an issue.

Unlike Russia, however, there is already a long historical tradition towards Turkey on the part of Western Europeans - including Germany - and the USA of accepting violations of international law and crimes against human rights of any kind with friendly silence: the Turkish genocide of the Armenians was actually of little concern to the "Western community of values". Presumably Hitler's destruction of the Jews would never have taken place if the victorious Western Allies of World War I had immediately sent a clear signal to conquered Turkey after the Armenian genocide, but as we know, they did not do so. Turkey's genocidal entry into Cyprus could care less about the "western community of values" just as little, and the burning of thousands of Kurdish villages by the Turkish army - a friendly NATO army! - in the 1992-1994 Kurdish war including the most brutal human rights violations, was never a problem for the "western values community" either. Turkey's very great freedom in matters of international law and human rights therefore has a long tradition for the so-called "western community of values".

With Russia, however, things are different. Crimes against international law and human rights in Russia were tolerated by the West only during the Soviet era. The ideology of communism, as is well known, was always popular in the Western European - including German - academic elite; it is so in these circles to this day. Therefore, what actually happened in the Gulag camps of Archangelsk and Magadan, whether Ukrainians were starved, democratic oppositionists beaten to death, or millions of people forcibly relocated, the "Western community of values" did not want to know so precisely during the time of communist rule in Russia.

However, this willed blindness of Western academia in particular to the conditions in Soviet Russia ended with the fall of communism in 1989: now there was no longer any ideological reason for the leading left academic world in Western Europe and the U.S. to close both eyes. On the contrary: the end of the communist experiment in Russia was for many intellectuals in the Western world almost considered a betrayal of their favorite ideology, and as a result the blind ideological support for the Soviet Union turned into an equally blind hatred of non-communist Russia. Therefore, especially the to this day in its tendency pro-communist academia and the leftist elites of all western countries almost yearn for a political and economic failure of non-communist Russia.

The comparison between Turkey and the illegal occupation of Northern Cyprus on the one hand and the current developments in Russia and Eastern Ukraine on the other therefore shows very clearly: the "Western community of values" in the case of Putin´s Russia is not at all concerned with democracy, the violation of international law or any other exalted "Western value." It is only about developing the ideological enemy image of a small, still pro-communist Western elite into the enemy image of the broad masses in Western Europe and the USA through massive anti-Russian propaganda. Putin's entry into eastern Ukraine therefore provides this western elite with a very welcome opportunity to ram this politically desirable enemy image home even more effectively among the western masses.

Turkey, on the other hand, is to be presented to the Western European masses as a friendly friendly state - also against the background of the advancing repopulation of Western Europe - which is why Turkey can do as it pleases, without becoming, in principle, the political target of the Western elites to the same extent as it is for Putin's Russia.

Russia is not Turkey, Russia is not very free. The so-called "Western value community" will therefore always use a different yardstick with Russia than it does with Turkey. Even if the Turkish entry into Northern Cyprus may have been the blueprint for the Russian entry into Eastern Ukraine, Putin should therefore have no illusions about the traditional double standards of the so-called "Western.

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