In the Kremlin

Shrimp

August 19, 2010 Julia Latynina

In the early 90s, in the USA, one Russian emigrant, who later entered the environment of Semyon Mogilevich, traded in bulk shrimp. The business went very successfully, the young man sold shrimp at a price slightly lower than that of competitors, and bought-at a price slightly higher than the one he traded, and in the end, gaining prepayments for some kind of lemons in green, dumped.

The young man probably laughed very much at these Americans, who reduce the center with the Center, optimize supplies, look for suppliers - after all, you can just put the suckers and escape.

The young man probably did not occur to that simple consideration that:

a) he will never be in the United States or in any other country to trade shrimp;

b) according to some strange whim of history, it is precisely those countries in which soup is cooked from shrimp, and do not build a pyramid, have many times a more prosperous economy. And countries like Nigeria or Russia, where every smart fraudster strives to put on a sucker, smoke bamboo.

This is me to the fact that our Russian international policy reminds me of the psychology of a shrimp merchant.

Here, for example, we ask ourselves the question: why does the principality of Monaco exist in Europe? Two kilometers in length, three hundred meters in width, the princely castle, the oceanographic museum built by the “prince-scientist” Albert, which at the beginning of the twentieth century swam through the seas all his life, pulling out of them all sorts of things, clogged with yacht, like a kebaby, public escalacers and elevators in the fresh air, and then the ladies in the fresh air, and then People are too lazy to rise up the stairs. And where the border, you won’t understand-you just walk, walk along the shore and suddenly get to the mail on which Egalite, fraternite, liberte ... um, it is no longer a principality.

So - why is the principality of Monaco in Europe? Or-we’ll raise the question differently: what do you think, how long would the principality of Monaco last, so fat and rich, with its yachts and escalators and without the slightest army, are it located, say, next to Iraq or Zaire? Answer: Exactly as much time as it took any next Zairo cannibal to bring the company “Commando” there and tell the human rights commission at the UN that the damned yachts from the principality of Monaco themselves attacked him and that they represent the form of neocolonialism.

And in Europe, Monaco stands and stands. This is like shrimp. It is not customary to buy shrimp in Europe expensive, sell cheaply, and then run away with an advance payment.

Russian foreign policy is the same shrimp.

This bastard Saakashvili dares to poke in our nose with his reforms? So now we will say that the damned Georgia attacked us, we cut off her Akhalgori and every time some Hillary Clinton will again call us to stop the occupation, we will fight in hysteria: they attacked us! These are Georgians to blame for everything! And behind them are Americans who behave in Iraq!

Did the Ukrainians arranged the “Orange Revolution”? Well, now we will stick a gas pipe in one place, we will put the sticks in the wheels and will not calm down until Yanukovych sits in Kyiv and Ukraine will go rapidly to the same toilet as Russia.

Did this bastard Lukashenko took the loot for the recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia and threw it? Well, we will remove such a movie about him, such a movie ...

Do not think that I equalize Lukashenko and Saakashvili. One is the last dictator of Europe, the other is the reformer of his country. They are similar only because both became objects of the Kremlin’s sovereign rage, and they became objects of rage of the Kremlin only because the Kremlin considers itself as smart as the shrimp merchant.

What suckers all these developed countries think in the Kremlin (as well as in North Korea or Iran) - they have been producing trust for decades, they do not present the absurd requirements to the neighbors, they do not send tanks to the neighbors only because they are losing their ways, they do not assert themselves at the expense of neighbors - and meanwhile, all these actions in a decent hooligan go away.

Go. But they are not forgotten.

Our dealer of shrimp did not sit down. But he didn’t have to trade either shrimp or anything else in the United States. We were not punished for the war with Georgia: we were not even rolled out of the League of Nations, like Stalin for the war with Finland, and we were covered by a completely prostitute report of the Talyavini Commission on this war. We were simply stopped calling for the Eights summits.

We ceased to be an arbiter in the CIS space: they are afraid of us, but do not respect. We cannot be an arbitrator, since we are always a side of the conflict. No one punishes international hooligans, but they stop communicating with them.

Shrimp, as was said.