News Right Now: Double-Dealing

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February 24th 2022, Russian forces advanced towards Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, as they continued their assault on the country. Bloody battles have continued to take place nationwide and Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for Ukraine’s military to remove the country’s government from power. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has pledged to resist Russia’s invasion. The UN says more than 50,000 Ukrainians have fled to other countries since the fighting started.

Ukraine's border guard has said that males aged 18-60 are not allowed to leave the country in a statement posted on its Facebook account. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared martial law earlier on Thursday shortly after it was reported that Russia had attacked Ukraine Western powers have announced sweeping sanctions on Russia, including measures targeting Putin himself. Ukraine today represents the last buffer zone to resolve the historical complex of Russia, which is the fear of Europe from which it was invaded twice (Napoleon and Hitler), and if the weakness of the Soviet state forced it to abandon Eastern Europe as a buffer zone, in facing the advancing of NATO towards Eastern Europe, it at least wants its neighbours Ukraine and Belarus to provide it with an area that isolates it from the dangers of NATO and advances of its military machine to the east. Russia today wants to prevent Ukraine from joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), or supporting it [and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov considered the US military support to Ukraine a “serious challenge to Russia’s security.”

It is natural for any country to move their militaries to protect their interests except for Muslim rulers- they only protect their own interests in the guise that they protect the interests of their people. Turkey, which provides ongoing support via a base in its country for the US and cooperates with it, organizes visits to other countries – Ukraine – for the benefit of the US, and conducts proxy wars on behalf of the US. Under the 1936 Montreux Convention, Ankara has control over the straits and can limit warship passages during wartime or if threatened.

As a result Ukraine demanded the following: “We are calling for the airspace, Bosphorus and Dardanelles Straits to be closed. We have conveyed our relevant demand to the Turkish side. At the same time, we want sanctions imposed on the Russian side,” Ambassador Vasyl Bodnar told a news conference in Ankara. Turkey also has supplied Ukraine with Bayraktar surveillance and attack drones which are already in active use against the Russian army. Reliable and accurate military drones were once the exclusive purview of the U.S. military. But the technology has become more commonplace in recent years, and is now a fixture of many 21st century battlefields. And Turkey is now the preeminent supplier. “Now that Turkey has a growing defense industry, you want to showcase your items as battle-tested,” Dalay says. “Those kinds of conflict zones have become major PR for the Turkish drone industry.” (Galip Dalay, a specialist on Turkish and Middle Eastern politics at Chatham House, a London international affairs think tank).

Sadly, the same effort is not evident in the support of innocent Muslim civilians in Syria that Erdogan is duty bound to protect. The US carried out a helicopter-assisted operation on the Turkish border days before the Russia-Ukraine conflict escalated. Helicopters landed at Atme on the Syrian-Turkish border. At least 12 people are reported to have died in clashes allegedly affiliated to ‘al-Qaeda’.

The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that F-16 fighter jets were seen in the air in Idlib and Aleppo. One resident of Atme said many people died, while another said he saw at least 12 bodies in a collapsed multi-storey building. It is stated that among the bodies were in fact women and children. So, while the Kafir US is brutally killing Muslims in Syria next to us, Erdogan, who should watch and protect Muslims, instead went to Ukraine for the benefit of the Kuffar.

Turkey is as guilty as the rogue US in this operation. If Turkey had not come to the negotiation table with the United States in return for cooperation, silence, or Turkey’s air strikes against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Syria and the PKK in Iraq, the United States would never have attempted such an operation. Turkey announced one day before this murderous operation by the US, that it carried out an operation against YPG and PKK training camps and shelters in northern Iraq and Syria under the name of Operation Winter Eagle. This is an indication that there is bargaining. In his statement, the US President announced that the leader of ISIS was killed in the operation to cover up the deaths of 12 innocent Muslims. Even if the leader of ISIS is killed, this does not mean, and it does not legitimize that the US can carry out an operation on our territory and kill 12 innocent civilian Muslims. If anyone needs to be punished, we as Muslims should punish him, not the bandit and cowboy US. While the US, with the support and cooperation of the treacherous and spy rulers of Muslims, brutally murders the people it considers “criminals and terrorists” on our lands, along with their children, spouses and families.

In the case of Palestinian, civilians and children could be taken under the protection of Turkey as it is a ‘NATO country’ with a very strong and robust army and a political, diplomatic, military regional power like no one else. Turkey is the only state that Israel could potentially feel military pressure. The sooner Turkey intervenes to protect Palestinian civilians and children, the sooner this ridiculous and bloody conflict, which is likely to be avoided, will end.

The decade plus bloody war in Syria, the violent collapse of political systems in Egypt, the conflict and destruction in Yemen, and the internal crisis in Lebanon has made the Arabs further neglect the Palestinians and the Palestinian issue, dealing only with their own internal problems or prioritising their own national interests. Erdogan’s leadership is as guilty as the US in the killing of Muslims because the one who helps the criminal is just as guilty.

Military help is unilaterally given when there is Western backing such as in Ukraine or with Russia against Syria, leaving only rhetoric, humanitarian aid and calling for wider collaboration ( that will never materialize) when it comes to the cause of the Muslims. The main reason why we are not able to impose sanctions on the US, which has provided tons of weapons and ammunition in front of our eyes, and why we have become dead silent, are these puppet and agent rulers.

These puppet and agent rulers must be deposed and a Khilafah established so that our armies and lands are used to protect our blood, honor, and land and leverage it against the Kuffar instead of in their favor. If the Muslims had a shepherd – the Islamic Caliphate (Khilafah) State – who would protect and watch over their flock from wolves, neither the infidel wolf US nor other monstrous infidel countries would have grabbed Muslims.

As it is known, the wolf catches the sheep without a shepherd. In other words, the enemy crushes the person and community that does not have a ruler (Caliphate, Caliph) and easily falls under the domination of the enemies. Unfortunately, this is our situation today. It’s a painful situation. The only way out of this painful situation is to establish the Khilafah State, our shepherd and shield. Therefore, Muslims should focus on establishing the Khilafah and work tirelessly for the Khilafah.

«وإنَّما الإمَامُ جُنَّةٌ يُقَاتَلُ مِن ورَائِهِ ويُتَّقَى به»

“Verily, the Imam (Caliph) is the shield, behind whom you fight and protect yourself with.” (Muslim)

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