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Wolves, wolves around
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Wolves, wolves around
June 28, 2006 Alexander Golts
Of course, there will be no war, but there is such a fierce struggle for peace that no one will seem to anyone. Of course, I am not so naive as to expect a serious analysis of the foreign policy of our country from the public speech of the president. But the speech of the head of state before the Russian ambassadors had to at least set clear goals for leading diplomats and at least to outline the ways of achieving them. After all, no matter how referred to as Russian foreign policy, it is obvious that in recent months it has been experiencing a cruel crisis.
More recently, the Kremlin insisted that the strengthening and development of relations with the CIS states is the most important priority for Russia. And now relations with some of the former Soviet republics are worse than they have ever been in history. At the official level, Moscow has always stated that partnership with leading countries of the world is extremely important for her. And now, on the eve of the Great Eight summit in St. Petersburg, the Kremlin is faced with an unprecedented criticism from Western countries. Putin of course sees it. And it is no coincidence that he is talking about the need to conduct a “overview of the country's foreign policy” before the end of the year. Only now it is not very similar that he understands the reasons why his politics was at a dead end.
The main problem, in Putin, is that "the conflict potential in the world, despite all the efforts made, continues to increase." The president does not call the source of this conflict potential directly, but hints: they say, they say, about the conflict of civilizations. This is, therefore, about the confrontation of the West and specific regimes like Iranian. Putin immediately declares: "We will not participate in any sacred unions." I suspect that this statement caused delight in Tehran and Pyongyang. After all, it means that the Kremlin calls such a policy of “civilized countries” (apparently, it is attempt to form such a policy) in relation to those who are trying to create a nuclear weapon to blackmail the rest of the world. Moreover, Putin emphasizes that Russia will not allow the world community to put pressure on Iran: “I am engaged in the settlement of crises in the dialogue, and not the isolation of certain states ... I will emphasize once again: we do not intend to join all kinds of ultimatums that only drive the situation into the deadlock, and strike the authority of the Security Council.”
I note that the next statement about the special position of Russia in relation to Iran was sounded on the same day when the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported the death of our diplomats in Iraq. I remember that recently in Shanghai, after a meeting with the Iranian president, Vladimir Putin pushed significantly, they say, our “friends” will help. And the Kremlin political scientists explained to the citizens that the "special ties of Russia" with the Muslim world will help to free diplomats ...
But now Vladimir Putin sees the main threat in no means in terrorists and those who finance them. Yes, the Russian president complains, we are imposed on us “hypertrophied significance in international relations”. And he immediately declares that in this regard, he is concerned with stagnation in the field of disarmament. It turns out that everything is to blame the United States, which ignore the repeated Russian proposals to "launch the negotiation process to replace the START agreement, the validity of which expires in 2009." At the same time, Putin is not accidentally “forgetting” the agreement on strategic offensive potentials, which should be fulfilled by the end of 2011. The fact is that, although the START was signed after the collapse of the USSR, all the features of the Soviet-American confrontation treaty were carried out-detailed descriptions of the characteristics of nuclear weapons that are allowed to preserve, the detailed procedures of mutual control. All this in the SNP agreement, signed in 2002, was not. Seeking to make Moscow pleasant, Washington simply promised to reduce his nuclear arsenals unilaterally to about 1,700-2200 warheads, a level to which Russian potential will be reduced due to rapid aging. Then the Americans said that the SNP agreement is the last. Since the United States no longer believe that Russian nuclear weapons are a threat.
And now “Restoring the economic health and influence of Russia around the world” is expressed in the fact that we demand to return to the new publication of the START agreement. Motives are clear-it was this contract that Russia was at least equal to the most powerful country in the world. Well, the fact that such an agreement will finally return the two states to the strategy of “mutual deterrence”, that is, confrontation, Putin is not very concerned about. What ceremonies can be when the “comrade wolf” needs to show his place: “Of course, we still need to change a lot in relations with each other. And in order for the changes to be positive, politicians of both countries need to learn as an axiom: partnership between powers such as Russia and the USA can be built exclusively on the terms of equal rights, mutual respect. ” It goes without saying that it is most possible to achieve equality and mutual respect with the help of nuclear weapons.
Putin also found worthy words in relation to those CIS countries that will quarrel to the “comrade wolf”: “We do not question the right of our neighbors, the CIS countries, to act independently both within the country and the international arena ... But we must clearly say that this means that we also have the right to choose our friends ... We see an example of a number of countries of the Commonwealth between the centuries of the forms are turned out by the threats of the threats. the appearance of non -self, weak, dependent state formations. ” The President left no doubt that the harsh times were waiting for those who have not been in the list as a result of the transfer of "energy calculations to the market basis."
An amazing thing, Vladimir Putin stubbornly repeats about how, not by the day, but by the clock, international authority and influence of the country is growing, and the speech is full of complaints about the ungrateful CIS countries and the insidious West, which does not want to abandon double standards. A striking combination of an inferiority complex with greatness mania.
Alexander Golts
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