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February 25, 2011 Alexander Golts

Many years ago I came across a book with the best reports of American journalists about the Vietnamese War. Most of all I was struck by the text about how the soldiers at the base watched the famous film “The Guns of Navaron Island” (there the heroic British saboteurs explode the German battery). The journalist is surprised to find: young Americans emphasize not saboteurs, but to the Germans guarding the battery. Just because they are doomed to do the work of the Germans every day - to protect their base from Vietconkhovsky saboteurs.

There is nothing to be done: being determines consciousness. I remembered all this in connection with the amazing reaction of Russian bosses to events in the Middle East. It would seem that they convinced themselves and others that in our country, such as democracy is no worse than the American one. They sit at the Eight, negotiate negotiations with the European Union. And at the same time, an amazing thing, they sincerely worry about the Middle Eastern dictators. For all these cadafi with mubaraki.

Here Igor Sechin, who convinces the correspondent of The Wall-Street Journal, that “we have political stability, one of the highest in the world,” suddenly breaks down. And he begins to carry nonsense in the spirit of Leontiev: “We must more closely study what happened in Egypt. To see what they did in Egypt, say, the high -ranking leaders of Google, what were the manipulations with the energy of the people. ” Everything, they say, the reason is a foreign, first of all, the American backstage. President of all Rus' Dmitry Medvedev there. Held a meeting of the National Anti -Terrorism Committee in North Ossetia. Obviously, in connection with an unprecedentedly increased stability, which makes itself felt either in Domodedovo, then in Karachay-Cherkessia. But here, the Orlin's gaze made out the main threat: “Look at the situation that has developed in the Middle East and in the Arab world. She is heavy. Very big difficulties are coming. In some cases, we can talk about the disintegration of large densely populated states, about their collapse into small fragments. And these states are very difficult. It is likely that complex events will occur, including the arrival of fanatics to power. This will mean fires for decades and the further spread of extremism.

We must face the truth. They used to prepare such a scenario for us, and now they will all more try to implement it. In any case, this scenario will not pass. But everything that happens there will have a direct impact on our situation, and we are talking about a fairly long perspective, we are talking about the prospect of decades. ”

Well, the purely spiritual teacher of the President Putin V.V., who, after Beslan, cheerfully talked about the fact that the terrorists were guided by those who want to deprive Russia of its nuclear potential.

It would seem that they should believe that they do not differ from Obam with Merkels and other sarozy. It seems to be the same legitimate, democratically chosen. But no, when it comes to business, Russian chiefs of the purely sincere movement of the soul are in the company of tyrants. Because they understand very well where their real place is. And all the time, while they mumble in cameras about the conspiracy of Google leaders, it beats in the subconscious: “What if tomorrow is the same as there - in Libya and Egypt. The devil knows why this people suddenly take and go outside? " And from this fright you can’t get away. It is written in arshin letters on the physiognomies of Russian leaders.

Obama, Cameron, Sarkozy - can be bad or good politicians. If the people do not approve their actions, the States or France can cover mass protests. However, both the ruler and citizens know very well - there is a simple and safe way for everyone to get rid of the annoying leader. You will laugh - this is the election. Moreover, all participants in the process - the ruling party, opposition and people - firmly know that the loser of the dispute will calmly leave. The president or prime minister will go to write memoirs, ministers will return to the corporation and university departments. After all, they did not take on any obligations beyond those that follow from their duties. They did not become the head of the “Order of the Swordsmen” (or “The Goat of Nostra”) - a system that does not live according to the written laws, but according to concepts. They did not take on the role of the leader of Jamahiria, sorry, the leader of the nation. In a word, they could not be in a situation where the entrance is the ruble, and the exit is a chervonets. They have no savings that, if they were private citizens, cannot be legalized. But authoritarian rulers have to work hard for galers for thirty years. Exactly until the moment the rebellion rises on the ship ...

I note that contrary to the theory of conspiracies (with the help of which the Kremlin chiefs explain all the contradictions of modern development to the subordinate people), the West is not at all interested in the revolution, which has now covered the Great Middle East. In order to more or less successfully leave Afghanistan, the United States and their Western European allies need at least relative stability in the region. And here there is a very real danger that power close to the “al-Qaeda” of forces can come to power in the leading states of the Arab world. Not to mention the fact that rapidly rising oil prices will make it difficult to get out of the economic crisis. Nevertheless, the leaders of the Western states, without hesitation, sided with the rebellious people. Because, despite the long and sometimes quite mutually beneficial relations with authoritarian rulers, they never considered these people “their own”. But the Kremlin, as we see, think.

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