Ich Bin Kein Berliner

Today in Washington it is not possible to recall the speeches of Barack Obama in Berlin and Prague. Then he needed the sympathies of Europeans to show America a television picture of the crowd jubilant on the occasion of the coming of the Messiah. Today it doesn’t matter. In response to the mention of the Berlin and Prague speeches of the Obama administration, Obama’s administration is in displeasure and blush, as if they were caught in a shameful occupation.

In Berlin Obama, then the presidential candidate, with expression, pronounced the text about the blockade of Berlin and how 60 years ago the United States created an air bridge to supply the city:

On that day, the continent was still in the ruins. The Soviet shadow hung over Eastern Europe, while the West - America, Great Britain and France - thought about how to rebuild the world ... The streets around the place where we are now standing, filled the hungry families that had nowhere to warm up. But even at the most desperate moment in the hearts of the Berliners, a light of hope was glowing.

What archaic is these words today! Voices from the past: Ich Bin Ein Berliner , Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down this Wall ...

In Prague, the US President confirmed that intergovernmental agreements on the placement of anti -missile defense facilities in the Czech Republic and Poland, concluded by its predecessor, remain in force. Here is a quote from an official translation published on the website of the State Department:

I clearly declare: Iran’s activity in the creation of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles poses a real threat not only for the United States, but also for Iran’s neighbors, as well as our allies. Czech Republic and Poland showed courage, agreeing to place elements of the protection system from these missiles on their territory. As long as the threat from Iran will remain, we will continue to implement plans to create an economically effective and proven missile defense system. (Applause.)

The Iranian threat has not gone away, but it doesn’t matter.

I do not even want to delve into the arguments of the White House and the Pentagon. Experts claim that Moscow actually won nothing exactly, that the new mobile network of the pro is a technological breakthrough that is inaccessible to Russia. But it does not matter. I am not interested in what compensation the Czechs and the Poles will receive. This is not a technical question. For Moscow, this is a matter of principle. Moscow won a political victory, and in Washington they know this. The fact that this is a surrender, writes even Loyal Obama Press.

The president accepted not only a politically irresponsible, but also an immoral decision. His harbinger was the non-participation in events in Gdansk on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the beginning of World War II. Warsaw for three months could not get an answer to her invitation. Finally, she was told that there was no one to go, everything is on vacation until the day of labor. Hearing this, the Polish diplomat apologized for the fact that Hitler began the war on September 1, without waiting for the American holiday. In the end, the US delegation in Gdansk was headed by Obama adviser to National Security, General James Jones. This is the same as if the Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev went from Russia.

Does America reduce its military-political presence in Europe? It's hard to believe, but you have to believe. A larger strategic mistake is difficult to imagine. The historical fate of Europe and America is inextricably linked.

Back in the XVII -XVIII centuries, the North American colonies participated in several European wars, which were thrown into the New World, for the Palatice, Spanish and Austrian inheritance, as well as in the seven years. France and Spain were allies of the young American republic in the war for independence. Saying goodbye to the nation, George Washington bequeathed to refrain from strong alliances with European powers. “Why leave our own soil and switch to a stranger? ” He asked rhetorically. “ Why do our fate dependent on the fate of any part of Europe and to associate our world and prosperity with manifestations of ambition, rivalry, interests, moods or whims of Europe? ” But already in 1801, the United States sent its military squadron to the war with Muslim pirates and saved it in 1801 Europeans from this misfortune.

The manifesto of American isolationism is considered to be a doctrine of Monroe . But her proclamation in 1823 became a preventive response to the plans for the intervention of the Holy Union in order to restore the status quo of former Spanish colonies. With his statement, President James Monroe announced the colonization of America finished.

Europeans did not heed. Until the end of the century, Washington had to protect the Western hemisphere from Europe's intervention. And then the world war broke out.

For the United States, isolationism remained an attractive, but unrealized idea. Returning to it today means to try to turn the history of the backbone, forget the lessons of the 20th century, for a deadly or for the sake of small self -interest to give in to conquering the Cold War and peaceful democratic revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe.

For Israel, the moment of truth has already come. When the presidential candidate Obama during the last year’s Middle Eastern tour said: “Let me declare with a certainty: Israel is the most faithful friend of Israel,” it was a reservation, but a reservation on Freud. His then rival Hillary Clinton promised to erase Iran from the face of the earth if he dares to attack Israel with nuclear weapons. Obama in response mildly said : "For the past few years, we have heard a lot of promises to erase the earth from the face of the earth. Something is not visible. So I am not inclined to cavalry scourges."

The unity of Europe may be illusory, having lost the restraining of the beginning of the American presence. The Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Angel Merkel before a trip to Gdansk announced the unfairness of the mass deportation of Germans from Eastern Europe after the Second World War, thereby making it clear that the union of the expelled remains a real factor in German domestic policy.

This is only the first swallow. The coals of mutual claims in Europe continue to smolder and, under favorable circumstances, flash a bright flame.

This will become the beginning of the end of the Obama era. But it will no longer matter.