Translated material
The results of the week. Our excommunication to Chamberlains
In uniform
The results of the week. Our excommunication to Chamberlains
May 24, 2013 Alexander Golts
Here everyone says that Russia has a feminine character. Not sure. Because there is no average "female" character at all. However, the fact that the current domestic power was likened to a very specific Russian female type, I have no doubt. You all know this type-a little over 50, the size between the 54th and 62nd. Small eyes are crushed with cheeks, and the waist, to put it mildly, hips. This is the aunt that bursts into the subway car, scattering the unfortunate people who did not have time to go out. It was she who confidently pushes everyone on the way to the icon, to which she intended to attach. It is she who is happy to get you at any opportunity. She is filled with completely sincere hatred of others. Therefore, he hates everyone in advance: those who are younger and more beautiful, those who are richer. Life, damn it, generally passed by. This woman is not only full of sincere hatred of the world around him, but is firmly sure that this world only thinks about how to humiliate it. And she considers it fundamentally necessary to give him, damn it, an adequate answer.
The most important foreign policy event of the outgoing week: Moscow convicted the insidious and corrupt west in falsification of the elections. It turns out that the insidious abroad stumbled the results of the “Eurovision” and crossed out, the cursed, all the voices cast by Azerbaijan to the Russian singer. Not just a representative of the television channel who participated in the organization of this amateur performances contest, and the Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov himself with some brutal seriousness said that "he would not leave this outrageous action unanswered." It is curious what the response will be. Are we really expanding the Iskander? Or will we limit ourselves to the expulsion of the third secretary of the Swedish embassy? There is some kind of prohibitive inferiority complex.
However, the main foreign policy intrigue of the week was in thought about what was contained in the response message of Vladimir Putin to American President Barack Obama. Let me remind you that in April Tom Donilon, an adviser to the US President for National Security, brought proposals to Moscow, the implementation of which, in the opinion of naive Americans, was supposed to withdraw Russian-American relations from a dead end. In addition to the decision of the White House to refuse to implement the fourth stage of the deployment of Europrop (it was at this stage, the Kremlin experts approved, the United States has the opportunity to destroy Russian missiles) Obama proposed to conclude a legally binding agreement on a constant exchange of information on anti -missile defense issues. He also proposed to continue the process of reducing nuclear arsenals. That is, he actually proposed to continue the process of unilateral reduction in the American strategic potential: after all, by the number of strategic carriers, Moscow will reach the ceiling of the current START Treaty by carriers by 2028, and for expanded warheads-by 2018.
No matter how! It is clear to everyone that American diplomacy is trying with the help of unworthy tricks to deprive the Russian foreign policy of the main thing - the opportunity to endlessly blame the West in the intention to “undermine strategic stability”. The Putin administration plunged into deep thoughts: what kind of excalpt to give Obama to the presumptuous in his peace. The thoughts were so painful that at some point the adviser to the Russian president for international affairs Yuri Ushakov admitted that the answer, perhaps, would not be able to prepare the secretary of the Russian Council of Security of Nikolai Patrushev for the planned visit to the United States planned for a certain time.
I see a picture of some future Repin: "Putin’s administration writes an answer to President Obama." The content of the message has not been disclosed, but the idea of it is given by the performances of the highest Russian officials responsible for the defense at the current international conference on European security. For the second time, the domestic military department is holding such an event. They say that there is ambitions to turn it into a certain analogue of the Munich Security Conference. Domestic officials clearly hoped that the ministers of the defense of the Western states would respond to invitations, and did not hide disappointments when, even high-ranking employees arrived in Moscow, but still not the first persons. The unfortunate received in full.
The head of the presidential administration, Sergei Ivanov, casually stated that Moscow was completely not satisfied with the “fragmentary” proposals for the pro. We need “firstly, guarantees that the Russian strategic potential will not undermine about in Europe. Secondly-that such a defense system will protect against possible attacks only from the side of states outside the Euro-Atlantic space. ” At the same time, from the statements of other domestic representatives it followed that the Americans should in this agreement and limit the technical capabilities of their PRO system, and coordinate future areas of its deployment. Deputy Minister of Defense Anatoly Antonov simply and intelligibly explained to the deputy Secretary of State Rose Gitemuller and deputy assistant minister Evelyn Farkas, why Moscow is not suitable for an American proposal to exchange information on the pro. Well, you have, lovely ladies, there are many different dresses and coats in the wardrobes. And what's the use of if you inform us that you are dusting there. After all, tomorrow you can buy something new. And put us before the fact. If you continue the uncomplicated figurative series of the Deputy Minister, then Russia requires an unconditional right to determine what and what style, as well as the size of the size of it, to wear a purely foreign “ladies”.
But if they do not agree, then it is possible without any polites. The chief of the General Staff Vladimir Gerasimov said that "a set of military-technical measures aimed at neutralizing the possible negative influence of the global system about the United States on the potential of Russian nuclear forces, and we are not hiding this." Gerasimov emphasized that the implementation of this neutralization system will depend on Russian assessments of the ability about the United States and NATO to weaken the potential of Russian nuclear forces. I remember that five years ago, the Locumines of Medvedev already threatened to deploy missiles in the Kaliningrad region.
When it came directly about European security - the topic of the conference proposed by the Russian Ministry of Defense - here the domestic chiefs were concentrated on the Owl. The DOVSE Treaty was declared purely outdated. Relict, they say, of the Cold War. However, at the same time, domestic military leaders constantly talked about a certain “balance of power” on the European continent. But if a military confrontation does not exist, what balance can we talk about? Or does Russia prefer to position itself as not even the Soviet Union, but of the whole Warsaw Treaty, opposing the entire North Atlantic Alliance? If not, then all talk about NATO superiority in ordinary weapons are simply meaningless.
But the most amazing is different: not one of the Russian bosses made a single specific proposal for cooperation. Because it was ordered to give a bite. Moreover, it seems to me that even if a miracle happens and the West will accept everything, even the most unacceptable Russian proposals, the next day Moscow will roll out new demands. Well, for example, so that domestic singers would occupy a place at least the second at each Eurovision contest in the framework of the “strategic balance” ...