“War escalation” and “Russia can’t afford it.” What the media in the East say about Putin’s mobilization
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President Vladimir Putin’s decision to mobilize the persecution was harshly condemned by Western countries that are guarding Ukraine. But the intention of the owner of the Kremlin to draft into the army hundreds of thousands of people and its inhabitants in the Ukrainian territories, accompanied by nuclear threats, to start accelerating even in countries, at the time of detection, Moscow would like to calculate in the discovery of a “multipolar world” in opposition to the West.
The recent summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Samarkand was called evidence of changes in Russia’s relations with eastern countries. During the meeting, Putin acknowledged that there are “issues” in China in connection with the war in Ukraine, Indian leader Narendra Modi bluntly told the Russian president that “the current era is not an era of war.” Journalists reporting on the SCO summit also noticed that Putin often had to wait for other participants in the talks, while earlier at the meeting, as a rule, he himself was late.
We tell you what the media of major countries of the East, including the largest states of the region – China and India, are talking about the latest events in Russia.
India: Channels talk about escalation of war
The press of India – the world’s biggest arms buyer and Moscow’s export alliance on the world stage – has stuck to the news mobilizing a lot of attention, the BBC’s monitoring department notes.
The editor of one of the representatives of the Indian television channels Republic TV said on the air that “Putin does not show extreme weapons” and accused Russia of “escalating the war.”
The host of another president of the alleged channel, WION TV, recalled Modi’s words to Russia and added: “Putin seems to want to end his imprisonment by raising the stakes. He has agreed to nothing less than win.”
An expert on another news channel, NDTV 24×7, described Putin’s statement as a “calculated escalation” and said the Kremlin was trying to find legitimate reasons to carry out its military tasks.
“The war is becoming more serious for Russia because its position is weakening against the backdrop of the decisions taken,” said an analyst at Zee News, a leading Hindi-language channel.
China: Putin is not criticized, but “Russia can not afford it”
Under the BBC Monitoring Desk Agreement, a proportion of representatives (compared to neighboring neighbors) spoke out about Putin’s mobilization and threats to Chinese media representatives. They turned to the Kremlin’s “partial mobilization” plans and did not pay too much attention to its use of nuclear weapons.
Such a line is quite acceptable with Beijing’s official guard, which basically supports Moscow’s views on the world order and considers its action in the event of a collision with the West.
However, this position of China has not yet gone further than verbal support. Judging by the reports of journalists from the SCO summit, in Samarkand Putin failed to get the Chinese leader to sign a contract for the construction of the Power of Siberia-2 gas pipeline, a real compensation for a significant average amount of gas in Europe.
Reporting on the Kremlin’s latest decisions, state-run CCTV focuses on Putin’s accusations of Western countries, the current story of Russia’s weakness and destruction, and is suspected of restoring peace between Moscow and Kyiv.
The Chinese media speculated largely on Putin’s failure to brandish a nuclear baton, but the Global Times tabloid did mention him – and in so doing referred to a publication by the Russian state agency Sputnik about Putin’s speech. In it, the President of Russia among the representatives accused the West of “nuclear blackmail” and added: “When the territorial territory of our country is threatened, in order to protect Russia and the people, we will certainly use all the restrictions at our disposal by the media. This is not a bluff.”
“Pandora’s Box”
However, even in the media and social networks in China, one can find criticism of Putin’s decisions.
On Wednesday, CCTV quoted Mykhailo Podoliak, an adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, who called the mobilization of events in Russia the scale of his losses on the battlefield.
The Buyidao blog on the Global Times website says that Russia is “faced with increasing military and detectable pressure” – and recalls the same words of Moda about the untimeliness of war in the world.
Commentator on the publication of the state document “Great Political Risk”. “Russian society clearly does not want this, not to mention the fact that the Russian government cannot afford it,” the publication believes.
Chinese Phoenix TV columnist Zheng Hao and rapidly developing that the so-called “referendums” in the occupied territories of Russia are illegal and international communities that they do not recognize.
Putin’s decisions are also criticized on Chinese social networks, which are usually heavily censored.
“How long will the conflict between Russia and Ukraine last?” asks one of the users of the Sina Weibo platform, the Chinese analogue of Twitter. “This question mainly depends on whether we can withstand such inflation, [война] also significant to a significant market. Destabilization is not needed, everything should be kept within reasonable limits.”
Some journalists have revealed fears that the confrontation between Russia and Ukraine may take on new, extremely dangerous forms. Former Global Times editor-in-chief Hu Xi Jin wrote on the Guancha website that if the war goes nuclear, “a Pandora’s box will open and the consequences will be unimaginable.”
Central Asia: “Migrants are cannon fodder for Russia”
Political analysts in Central Asia go much further in their criticism of the Kremlin’s actions.
“For Russia, guest workers are a very convenient tool,” he wrote in own telegram channel Uzbek political scientist Kamoliddin Rabbimov. – The life of migrant workers for Russia is worth nothing. Even if guest workers die, Russia will be happy if they kill Ukrainians.”
Well-known Uzbek economist Yuli Yusupov seem even tougher. “The cannon fodder from the miners and tractor drivers of Donbass is over. Now the ‘ordinary Russians’ will go to the slaughter,” he wrote.
Popular Kyrgyz website Kloop contact opinion of the lawyer Beksultan Osmonov of the passport, recommended to the citizens of Kyrgyzstan, who also have in Russia, to return to their homeland as soon as possible in order to avoid mobilization.
Another lawyer, Fatima Yakupbaeva, who, according to the laws of Kyrgyzstan, “the participation of a Kyrgyz citizen in the armed forces or military operations on the territory of a foreign state may become the basis for the loss of citizenship.”
Turkey does not want to be a “furniture warehouse”
In connection with reports of mobilizations, commentators in Turkey are drawing attention to the fact that more and more people are arriving in this country and neighboring Armenia with a “one-way ticket” lately.
Reports that Turkey is waiting for a new wave of waves from Russia caused a sharp discussion in social networks. Often there are such sharply dissatisfied people – despite the fact that Turkish public opinion is already in a sharp expression of sentiment against the meeting.
“Country of revolution in a wholesale warehouse” – complains one of the users of the popular discussion platform Eksi Sozluk.
When the Taliban (traffic recognizedabout in Russiathem and prohibited – ed.) takes power in Afghanistan, they live. Russia starts a war – and refugees come here. A civil war is starting in dentistry – and those who do not want to fight are also having it here,” another user is indignant.
Dissatisfaction with the fact that the infection of a sharp rise in prices: August inflation in the country exceeded 80%. “[Дорожают] rent, food, clothing, stationery, schools, hospitals, post office. Lines everywhere, crowds of people everywhere. Prices will probably rise again soon,” another user, Eksi Sozluk, fears.