He is drowning

Under the curtain of the press conference, there were no mysterious humorous scene. Putin’s personal biographer began to retell the plot of the Hollywood action movie Hunter Killer to his hero, but they did not listen to him for a long time. Upon learning that the President of the Russian Federation, the American atomic submarine, who had penetrated the base in the Arctic, was rescuing from the captivity of the traitors, Vladimir Vladimirovich sharply cut off the journalist Kolesnikov. “We have two small boats donated by the United States to Ukraine through the Kerch Strait,” Putin said. “And you want the atomic submarine to go to our base. A bad film.”

And everyone laughed, and the girl from the protocol’s service began to take the microphone from the biographer, and it remained incomprehensible what it was: a riot on the ship or a staged question. However, leaving, the president patted the questioner on the shoulder, and this, perhaps, should be evaluated as an incentive sign. Say, well done , he gave me an extra reason to laugh at Ukrainians and Americans.

There were no other reasons for fun. After the incident in the Kerch Strait, the world was still approaching the third world war, which corresponded to the designs of the Russian leader, but hardly within the framework of the script that was written in the Kremlin, planning a marine special operation. Petro Poroshenko answered harshly, but coordinating his actions with the Ukrainian society and with the West, and his chances to re -election did not decrease and did not increase. Europe spoke out with predictable restraint, but quite unambiguously. Trump, hesitating, refused Randev with Putin in Buenos Aires, and it does not matter what made him resort to boycott. The scandal associated with the testimony of Michael Cohen, according to official Moscow and different media, or the capture of Ukrainian sailors, according to the White House. The scandal and capture were probably affected.

It is important that the long -awaited meeting broke. The loneliness of Russia has aggravated. On the contrary, the chaos in the world was not increased, but this was the main goal of the Taund Putin policy in neutral waters. The world was even more alarmed, but also rallyed in the confrontation of the aggressor, and if anyone rejoiced , taking a place carefully selected next to Vladimir Vladimirovich, so it was the crown prince of Saudi Arabia Muhammad Ibn Salman al-Saud. These two, directly created for each other, of course, attracted general attention in the Argentine capital, but interest in them was manifested very specific. In a similar way, the audience looks at crocodiles in the zoo.

As a result, Putin’s participation in the “twenty” turned out to be another failure, and the main question addressed to him sounded like this: when will you free the new hostages to you in prison? The answers, of course, were prepared, and at the same press conference, Putin set them out in his unique style. Like, at first he "needs to confirm the provocative nature of the actions of the Ukrainian authorities and fix it all in legal documents ... Get complete testimonies from the sailors, all this should be designed accordingly, and it will be seen there." In essence, even without hiding how his interrogators work, already receiving the necessary testimonies and writing down the queen of evidence in the video where the prisoners read the texts on a piece of paper, and how investigators are going to work further. And as he himself subsequently intends to behave, blackmailing Ukraine and the West by the fate of the sailors and unsuccessfully trying unsuccessfully, according to the established tradition, to exchange them for something valuable from the point of view of the foreign policy. The softening of sanctions, for example, although, as experience shows, such exchanges are not practiced now, but this just suits it. According to the same experience, Vladimir Vladimirovich receives the greatest pleasure when he is begged purely humanly, proving that people were sitting for nothing, but he is cobenal. No, gentlemen, you did not convince me, and our independent court judged differently, you understand.

By the way, in this sense, the question asked at the end of the press conference, which mocked Putin and the public, suddenly acquires a special sound. Voluntarily or involuntarily Kolesnikov, setting out the content of the American film, invited the president to feel like a victim, a captive, prisoner, as he once hinted to him that in fact he was kind, conscientious, humane, and if he learns the truth about the Malaysian Boeing, he would certainly want to punish the true culprits of the tragedy. They generally have a strange relationship, the president with his favorite jester, who is allowed a lot, but still within reasonable limits. This applies to Boeing and the current situation with the sailors. Putin cannot physically put himself in the place of captured, as if you were grabbed by the enemies. It can only feel deaf irritation and cut off the clown, but immediately turn everything into a joke. So that they did not think that he was angry.

Nevertheless, he will now often ask him about the sailors what is reflected in joint statements by the leaders of the G7 and the European Union, and in the reaction of the Americans thinking about the terms of introducing new sanctions. Blackmail is a weapon of double -edged, and it is possible that an error crept into the Kremlin’s calculations when planning a special operation. They were going to intervene in the Ukrainian elections and again darken the West, and it will turn out that the Russian president will go down even lower along the steps of his shame. Somewhere in the hold, in the room between the lower deck and the bottom, although there he will still have space for maneuver. Down to the atomic submarines - and to the very bottom.