Important this week: Putin announced a thaw, Shoigu took pity on the herring, Lavrov admitted mistakes
Last week it became obvious that the West is set up in a businesslike way: it is ready to fight with Russia to the last Ukrainian, and the sanctions are planned so as not to be left without Russian gas. Because hysteria is still a short-term process, and after heart-rending cries that now the whole world is in ruins, and a ditch with piranhas and crocodiles will be dug around Russia, remission inevitably sets in.
Pan Volodymyr (Zelensky), it seems, began to guess: when the gentlemen quarrel, the serfs crack their forelocks. And the US is deliberately exaggerating the Russian threat to make the supposedly personal Putin-Biden agreements on Donbass already reached end up looking like a mutually acceptable compromise. But the propaganda campaign about an imminent Russian invasion is costing Ukraine too much. According to Zelensky, $440 million of Western investments have already been withdrawn from the country because of it. Yes, and the partial evacuation of American and British diplomats from Kiev also strained him – after all, according to him, they are “captains of diplomacy” who should “leave the ship last.” And, of course, this: when Russia attacks, you yourself fight to the death somehow, here are Javelins and helmets for you. On Sunday, for example, the head of NATO, Stoltenberg, said that the alliance does not plan to send troops to Ukraine in the event of a military conflict between Kiev and Moscow. Instead, NATO will focus on the supply of weapons to Ukraine and the development of sanctions measures against the Russian Federation.
With the development of sanctions is also quite difficult. Germany demands that they do not affect the energy sector, business elites fear that sanctions against Russia will bring down the stock market, even simply disconnecting from SWIFT will lead to a terrible mess. In other words, it is quite difficult to find the balance that will allow us to infringe on Russia and not shoot ourselves in the foot at the same time. Here Britain generally says that it can arrest the London real estate of “Russian oligarchs”. But it’s wonderful! When the Western-oriented “elite” is kicked in the ass by the West itself, maybe their brains will fall into place. Home, doves! There you are simply tolerated and not only disliked, but not even respected. And here the snow has not been removed in Siberia (although in St. Petersburg too).
A separate problem with the Russian threat happened in the Czech Republic. There, back in 2014, arms depots exploded. Then, when the whole world found out about the superheroes Petrov and Boshirov, their pokemon (unbelievable, of course, but suddenly someone doesn’t know: the pokemon is a pocket monster) “Novichok”, it suddenly turned out that they blew up the warehouses. But in the week it turned out that the allegedly available report on their participation in sabotage was allegedly accidentally destroyed. This threat is broken, bring another.
And the whole essence of the current situation for the thousandth time (a man of amazing patience) was explained by Minister Lavrov: “Now we have serious problems precisely because the West acted carelessly and dishonestly in relation to Russian interests. It could be otherwise, but history has no subjunctive mood. We have become wiser. They say they only learn from their mistakes. To make it quite simple: a neighbor promised you not to store a barrel of gasoline on your common balcony. And then he put it there anyway – he didn’t sign any obligations. Now, Russia, “wiser” on its own mistakes, wants to move the barrel of gasoline away from itself – “to seek not only assurances, political commitments on paper, but also legally binding guarantees” of security.
Meanwhile, Vladimir Vladimirovich, having left the foreign policy track, took up domestic affairs. And then we had a discord in the financial and economic bloc due to cryptocurrencies. The Central Bank, which cannot admit that citizens will be able to do without it, has gone our traditional way – to ban all cryptocurrencies altogether. Naturally, motivated by concern for citizens. Here, even Putin felt that obscurantism was going through the roof, and ordered the Central Bank and the government to somehow come to an agreement. Moreover, according to him, there is a “surplus of electricity” in the country. Immediately, however, an unpleasant question arises: if there is a “surplus” of electricity in the country, then why does it not become cheaper for us, the population?
Vladimir Vladimirovich also announced a thaw – he instructed the Ministry of Justice to analyze the law on foreign agents before May 1, including that part of it that speaks of exclusion from the register. Because while this is the trouble – it is almost impossible to justify. A truly amazing story – why would the state suddenly refuse such a convenient way to stop the slightest criticism addressed to it? However, it is not a fact that the thaw will turn into spring, and it is not a fact that it will take place at all.
And finally, it’s a mystery. What is the “denial of the ideals of Russia’s positive contribution to world history”? Don’t worry though. Uselessly. This is a quote from a Ministry of Culture document released this week about our traditional values and values that are alien to us. Above, about “negation,” this is how the ministry designates one of the alien values. Am I the only one who thinks that this bureaucratic abyrvalg is precisely the denial of our values and their complete discredit? Oh, they are looking for foreign agents in the wrong place …
Yes, here’s some more positive news. Shoigu responded to the request of the Irish fishermen and decided to move the February exercises of our Navy a little further from the coast of Ireland – so as not to scare the herring. Normal, human approach. Once again confirming that hysteria, and even more so artificially inflated, should end in remission.