A humiliating blow for Russia from an unexpected and unlimited player

The terrorist attack in the Moscow concert hall was a humiliating blow to the efficiency narrative and the omnipotence of Russia, and Vladimir Putin himself who supports the idea that nothing should happen in a country where his regime even controls the movement of leaves on trees.

Just hours after the Federation announced that it was in a “state of war” in the conflict of aggression against Ukraine, a supposedly higher level of internal surveillance, a small group of commandos conveniently infiltrated the country and generated one of the worst terrorist attacks in the country in the last 20 years.

The blow was greater than that of the Dubrovka Theater in Moscow in 2002, which caused 109 deaths, fewer than now, but those victims were also at the hands of the rescue operation that poisonous gas entered the building. The same thing happened at the Beslan school, with 334 deaths also under fire from Russian militias who attacked the structure without worrying about the innocent. This time it was everything surprise and initiative of the assassins.

Even more humiliating because the “American enemy” had warned the Kremlin since the first days of March of the growing terrorist activity in Russia.

Washington has identified the threat as coming from ISIS-K of Afghanistan, successor or counterpart to the previous ultra-Islamic criminal gang that operated in Syria and Iraq and which was largely deactivated by Russian military action. Put in he contemptuously ignored the warning American who now leaves his country’s secret services in a situation of sensational inefficiency.

It should come as no surprise that Putin now forces data to do so blame Ukraine for this bloody episode, although the terrorist group released a large statement on Telegram claiming responsibility for the incident and providing details.

This is how the Russian Tsar acts, targeting Kiev to try to keep alive the history of the Russian fortress surprised at a rock festival and before system failure concept to these extremes. Also to transform the horror of the episode into a national cause that strengthens the spirit of war supported by denouncing that Ukraine a diabolical Nazi nest.

The entire situation is reminiscent of the beginning of the war two years ago, launched with the security of an operation lasting a few days by the Armed Forces defined by the Kremlin leader as the most modern in the world. But on the field it was clear there was no such modernity and that a large part of the investments intended for its improvement have disappeared into the abyss of corruption. At the same time, the strategists at the front were amazing in following the battle methods of the Second World War.

Russia’s humiliation is not unique. ISIS-K had already shown its audacity in Iran with the January 3 attack in Kerman caused 84 deaths. The operation was carried out by terrorists with explosives who passed security barriers unnoticed at a mass event commemorating the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani, a national hero.

That too was a humiliating episode for the Persian power which first appealed to blame Israel, as Putin now did with Ukraine, but the weight of the evidence forced him to remain silent. There will be no such realism in the Kremlin leadership.

ISIS-K is an organization that silently grew and spread across Afghanistan after the Taliban dictatorship returned to power, after the tumultuous departure of the United States. of that country. These terrorists provoke frequent attacks against the extravagant Afghan regime, but their main enemy remains the theocracy of Tehran.

On paper they are furiously Sunni, the majority branch of Islam, and despise the Shi’ism dominant in the Persian power. His story, that former ISIS supported his right to form an independent Caliphate with parts of Syria and Iraq, is the reconstruction of the ancient province of Khorasan, hence the characteristic K in his initials. That space included the current province of the same name in Iran, and territories in Uzbekistan (including Samarkand), other vast territories in Tajikistan and all of western Afghanistan. A fantasy in this present that certainly marries with other more earthly ambitions.

The rise of the previous ISIS lasted only a few years. Her most powerful chapter emerged in the Syrian civil war in 2011 during the call Arab spring as a battering ram of Arab fortunes with the dual purpose of weakening Iran and countering any possibility of the spread of the virus new need for democracy which had exploded since December 2010 in Tunisia.

The success of that organization led by Abu Bakr al Baghdadi el Samarrai, a religious football lover, known for that passion as Maradona during his period of imprisonment in the Iraqi North American prison of Camp Bucca, was evident in his economic powerthe control of over 7 million people and the efficient use of communication over networks.

His shots are motivated lone wolf attacks in the West who presumed to be part of the terrorist group and attacked civilian targets, as in Paris with the Charlie Hebdo, Bataclan or Nice massacres between 2015 and 2016, dates in which attacks by alleged ultra-Islamic fighters multiplied in other cities of Europe, USA or Australia.

The danger in this present is that the imitation effect reflected in that deformed mirror will be reborn. This organization has already shown signs of its ability to attack outside its territory with a clear strategy aimed at gaining prestige at the expense of even those who appear untouchable. Do not confuse. These are not the precedents of ISIS and perhaps they are worse.