Weird and Mysterious News of the Week
Do you feel how the light aroma of spring madness and recklessness spreads in the air? Before Macron's visit to Beijing, there was still hope that the incompetence of Western politicians was limited to the level of ministers. But that hope has died. However, according to Vladimir Vladimirovich, this even plays into Russia's hands, because the West, with its thoughtless sanctions, is doing what our leaders could not do on their own. Dmitry Anatolyevich, meanwhile, canceled Ukraine, the politicians of this very Ukraine confessed to repressions against Russians, and secret Pentagon documents about Ukrainian plans appeared in the press …
The closest to reality, the national event of the week was the funeral of Vladlen Tatarsky. Thousands of ordinary people went to say goodbye to the same simple Russian peasant, who, by the will of fate, gained popularity and love, a soldier both on the battlefield and on the information front. After his death, he received an order from the President of Russia. Yevgeny Prigozhin came to the funeral. The Wagner sledgehammer lay by the coffin next to state awards. This was understood and accepted. But the attitude of the people to politicians in general, not to personalities, but rather to the institution, was demonstrated by the example of the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party Slutsky. He was the only one of the “political elites” at the federal level who came to the funeral and spoke. By and large, it was a male act, although Slutsky was later hit by a wave of negativity. Some people even saw it as an attempt to promote themselves. Once again it is worth noting: it was not actually addressed specifically to Slutsky. Pleaded for the sins of others. But there are many things to think about at the top.
And the most incomprehensible event was the publication on the Web of allegedly secret documents allegedly from the Pentagon about supposedly Ukrainian plans. It is worth adding, perhaps: supposedly obtained by unknown hackers. Because absolutely nothing is clear: who leads whom by the nose? Is this an operation of special services, and if so, whose? Half the Western press claims that the Pentagon has dishonored itself by failing to keep the secret, and here's the problem: the Russians will now know everything. The other half consider it misinformation. Ukrainians generally claim that the leaks were organized by the Russian special services in order to sow panic in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Ukrainian society. Some analysts suggest that by showing documents, the United States is indicating to Ukraine that it does not have the right to act independently, but must do as the Americans say. With Schrödinger's cat, even more clarity. One thing is clear: if such a storm has begun in the information space, hiding the visibility with clouds of sand and dust, then a storm on earth is inevitable.
By the way, Podolyak, adviser to the Office of the President of Ukraine, spoke about what will happen to the inhabitants of Crimea if Ukrainian dreams about the results of the storm come true. He stated that it is required to “extirpate everything Russian”, “people should receive certain legal punishment for the fact that they changed their Ukrainian passport to a Russian one in 8 years and, in fact, became collaborators, traitors.” Well, and those who «do not want to enter the cultural space of Ukraine, they must either leave Ukraine voluntarily, or lose a number of their rights.» For many of our fellow citizens, such frankness is a novelty. But nothing new. It was against this that the Donbass fought alone for eight years, one for all the Russians.
Zelensky traveled to Poland during the week, where he and President Duda discussed the supply of arms at the tactical level, and at the strategic level — the creation of a new alliance when there will be no borders between Ukraine and Poland. Of course, this is not pronounced aloud, but such a union means the absence of Ukraine on the world map as an independent state.
Here is Medvedev, point by point, why there will be no Ukraine: no one needs it. Russia does not need it, since «the pieces of Russia called Ukraine within the borders of 1991 are just a misunderstanding generated by the collapse of the USSR.» Europe does not need it, because «it has already given the Europeans a real financial and political hell.» The United States does not need it, because «ordinary Americans do not understand at all what Ukraine is and where «it» is located.» Neither Africa, nor Latin America, nor Asia needs it, since «the hundreds of billions that the United States spends on senseless battles somewhere in Ukraine would be enough for many programs aimed at social development»; and in these regions they see “how “color technologies” are being developed to eliminate the largest competing powers.” Its citizens themselves do not need it, because they “want to go anywhere – to hated Poland, to the EU, to NATO, they want to become the 52nd state of America. Yes, at least join Antarctica with penguins. All this, of course, is undeniable. Because Medvedev draws conclusions from the point of view of ordinary people from different countries and continents. Politicians, the authorities of these people, often have a different point of view. Shouldn't we know…
An enchanting level of incompetence was demonstrated during the week by Macron. He went to Beijing to dissuade China from being friends with Russia, and there, pointing out that Russia was aggressively deploying nuclear weapons in Belarus, he issued an amazing phrase: “France shares the desire that nuclear weapons be completely excluded from this conflict, that all international treaties on this issue, and that under no circumstances should nuclear weapons be deployed outside the territories of nuclear-weapon States, especially in Europe.” Peskov joked funny: “We haven’t heard such fierce criticism from the President of France against the United States for a long time.” Obviously, Macron would not have dared to «violently criticize» the owner. There is only one thing left: he either did not know, or had completely forgotten that the United States had long ago deployed its nuclear weapons in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy and Turkey.
This is their own lack of understanding of what they say and what they do, of course, creates difficulties in interstate communication. But there are pluses.
Here Putin said at a meeting of the Presidium of the State Council last week that “sanctions are for a long time”, that because of the sanctions “we were forced” to switch to import substitution, and “if we hadn’t had to, would never have done it. And so — colleagues do, and it turns out. And that as a result of this compulsion, «work in an operational and extremely intense mode gives positive results, a new cycle of growth of the Russian economy has been recorded.» Imagine what would happen if there were no sanctions and what would happen if they lifted the sanctions? The deindustrialization of Russia, the moral decay of society, the collapse of Russian culture and education would have gone like clockwork. That's the whole secret of victory over Russia. What kind of «one of the centers of the multipolar world» is there …
The only thing is that the West would have to surrender Ukraine. Well, according to Medvedev, no one needs her.