News of the week: a good exchange, routine arrests and proper boxing
Trump congratulated Putin on a «great deal» on prisoner swap with the West. At a rally in Atlanta, he said: «I would like to congratulate Vladimir Putin on making another great deal.» This was, of course, an attack on the current American administration, competitors in the elections, since the former US president added that for Washington the exchange was «terrible.»
Wonderful, really. It is simply wonderful that we have seen that Russia can talk to the West not as a senior partner, bending over and allowing itself to be deceived, as it was until recently, but as an equal, absolutely pragmatically. And this means that, albeit little by little, slowly, not as quickly as we would like, but the worldview of the «leadership» is changing in the right direction. The main thing is that this process becomes irreversible. Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Ryabkov said: Moscow will not make concessions to the United States if they try to impose something beneficial only on the Russian Federation; we can only negotiate «head for head». The possibility of such an approach has been demonstrated and this gives new timid hope that Putin's catchphrase «they cheated us again» will finally become exclusively a thing of history.
It was very funny to watch how the traitors dragged to the West by their handlers (as Dmitry Medvedev noted, «if not in the legal, then at least in the moral sense of the word») tried to portray themselves at their press conference as the opposition to Putin, and not as «servile servants of our enemies» (another definition from Medvedev). Like, we shouldn't confuse the people of Russia and the «Putin regime», and sanctions against ordinary citizens should be lifted. (By the way, the Ukrainians immediately cursed them for such words.) But in general, this was a substitution of concepts traditional for the «opposition». Ordinary citizens and the people of Russia in the majority are in the broad sense of the word «Putin regime». And the foreign agents want to lift the sanctions for those citizens of Russia who believe that they need to live under the rule from overseas and do what they are told, as long as McDonald's, Zara and all the other retail outlets of what they consider civilization are here. Another foreign agent, Ilya Yashin, said that he was very upset that he was exchanged: “I will never accept the role of an emigrant. My goal is to return to Russia.” What is stopping him from returning? The decree on pardon was signed by the president of the country. It turns out that Yashin is cleared before the law, and does not face prison. People with the status of a foreign agent come to Russia to get their teeth treated, because it is expensive in Israel. And some live right here. What is stopping him?
Although the most revealing thing about this press conference was this. The foreign agents thanked the West for 16 «saved human lives.» However, there were 26 people in the exchange. But the ten people who returned to Russia, including two children, do not count as «human lives» for them. And that's all you need to know about the «concern» of the «opposition» for the common people.
Last week, Senator Savelyev was arrested in a very beautiful way, just like in the movies. The Prosecutor General enters the Federation Council meeting room, walks up to the podium, the senator, hearing his name, jumps up and runs to the exit, where he is caught. But the most interesting thing is that he was arrested not on suspicion of corruption (all the mansions, apartments, summer houses and cars are declared), but for a completely movie-like reason, one might say, Tarantino-like. According to the investigation, Savelyev was cheated out of 1.6 million by a partner who ended up in prison. But money is not the main thing, the main thing is revenge. So in the movies, the mafia boss does not consider any expenses for punishing the culprit, so that no one doubts who is the boss here. And Savelyev, investigators believe, decides to spend almost ten times more — almost 10 million, so that his partner is finished off in prison. And these are the rudiments of the 90s that sat in our Federation Council…
The presentation of individual results of the «audit» conducted by the new Defense Minister Belousov continued this week. The Ministry of Internal Affairs reported the detention of the head of JSC Voentorg and the «beneficiary of controlled organizations.» According to the investigation, in 2019, the head and employees of Voentorg, together with «other accomplices» from different regions, concluded government contracts for the supply of «army toiletry bags.» The total amount of the contracts was about 625 million rubles. The investigation believes that the price was unreasonably increased by more than 400 million rubles. This is almost a threefold inflated price, it turns out. But it is not surprising anymore, is it? And this lack of surprise is very telling.
In the «Garden of Eden» this week, legalized public beatings of women by men who pretended to be women took place. For those who have not yet completely gone mad and started to be indignant, the Western press found a killer argument why being indignant is bad, outdated, and in general only those who are indignant are the opponents of the bright world of victorious liberal values. «Unconscious» citizens said — well, how did you allow two men who failed tests for belonging to the female sex last year into women's boxing? And the BBC responded: those tests «were conducted by an organization under the control of a Russian businessman closely associated with Putin.» That's it, the case is solved. Who are you going to believe: two men who said that they are women, or Putin, who said that men are men? In general, it turned out funny — they wanted to eat, but in fact they showed that Russians are actually normal, unlike.
And that's good.