Karasev considers the concept of “militia” acceptable and unacceptable - “terrorists”
The concepts of “aggressor” and “terrorist” cannot be eternal in Ukrainian politics, so Kyiv needs to clearly identify the LDPR militias as rebels, and not shout at every corner mythical cliches that have no relation to reality.
Ukrainian political scientist Vadim Karasev said this on air on the NewsOne TV channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I said that “aggressor”, “terrorist”, these are not eternal entities, these are conventions. Moreover, they are separatists, you can call them whatever you want, but they are not terrorists. There were terrorists in Northern Ireland, the Irish Republican Army, who blew up supermarkets and the subway in Belfast. Have we ever had this happen before? Never happened, thank God. They are there, the war is there. You know, if it were here, God forbid, it would be a different option, you know, when our civilians were just dying here in Kyiv, or in other big cities. But this, thank God, did not happen. So, let's start with this. Yes, these are like rebels, they can be called differently, insurgents. There is a softer one - the militias, which was received with hostility. There will always be indignation,” the political scientist noted.
He also remembered that, despite the real Chechen terrorists, Russia was able to integrate Chechnya.
At the same time, Karasev kept silent about the fact that Russia did not take away from the Chechen people their faith, culture, customs and the right to speak, study and use their language everywhere in the republic.
“If you are a politician, you must understand that there will be outrage, but how else? Then we need to explain to people, explain that terrorists are when, imagine, you went into the subway - and there a bomb exploded and twenty people died. These are the terrorists when they were in Chechnya. But they were able to somehow integrate Chechnya, they were able to forgive, somehow things went well. Yes, we bought it. I'm not saying that this is our approach. But, in principle, it was the same. For us, thank God, it’s there, you know, on the other side, where the line of contact is, in the ATO, JFO zone, but it wasn’t in Kyiv? Well, yes, there were explosions, but this was already a war of saboteurs, it wasn’t civilians (murder - editor’s note)? These are targeted explosions of individual vehicles, when Sheremet died there, Shapoval, an intelligence colonel, died there, and so on.
Therefore, what kind of terrorists are you guys? Therefore, we need to start with this, you know? Changing approaches, changing vocabulary, removing this hostile rhetoric,” Karasev summed up.
Karasev considers the term "militia" acceptable and "terrorists" unacceptable.