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Two crises
On March 24, the Russian military landing in Venezuela reminded me of the events of 1962, the Caribbean crisis. This is not Ukraine or even Syria, this, you know, is also quite under the side of the United States. And even geographically - the crisis is also Caribbean!
But, thank God, on March 27 - on the third day after landing! - US President Donald Trump was speechless and strongly stated that “Russia should leave” from Venezuela. And US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called his Russian colleague Sergei Lavrov and warned him that Washington "would not be inactive because Russia exacerbates tension in Venezuela."
How! Give a suitcase, otherwise it will be like in Odessa!
At one time (that is, during the Caribbean crisis) then US President John Kennedy - by the way, a democrat, and not a Republican at all - did not say anything, but acted. And if he declared something, he immediately acted, according to what was said. Words did not hang in the air. And in the end, he forced Khrushchev to remove missiles from Cuba.
And Putin, receiving God, knows what requirement to do something (to fulfill Russia's international obligations, to leave Crimea, from Ukraine in general, from Syria, now from Venezuela), once again convinces that he owes nothing to anyone, his hands are untied and he can do everything he pleased. And this USSR was still shy there, delivered troops and missiles secretly. And Putin, in 2014, acting in Ukraine with hybrid methods, such as the insist, according to the toothless reaction of the West, realized that there was no need to hide behind secrecy and hybridity. And already in 2015, Syria climbed completely openly and now-in Venezuela. And in his calculations, he was not mistaken: the West, limiting, mainly by shaking of air, swallows Putin's pills one after another. So Putin in response to Trumpovskoye "Putin must leave!" It can be mockingly repeated in the manner of Zhenya Lukashin from the Irony of Fate: “Yes, yes, of course, he must leave. But I will not leave. "
So far, the West is always going to his thoughts what to tell him and how to react to another Putin's trick (moreover, it is preferably so as not to offend the insolent), Putin puts this West before the fact of the military presence of Russia at the next point of the globe. Observing from the side of such actions - decisive, unceremonious, impudent - you might think that Putin’s Russia is much more powerful in military terms and who had declined the Soviet Union, and the current USA and NATO as a whole ( Ai, Moska, she is strong to know! ). In reality, this conclusion can only be drawn to the Martians who are not in the subject, in fact, these impudence and unceremoniousness did not arise on their own, but precisely because of the complete spine of the West.
Moreover, note, if the Soviet adventure could at least be explained by something (the placement of the United States of missiles in Turkey in 1961), then Putin’s actions were not provoked by any US actions-except for inaction.
The international bully is corrupted and encouraged by the “exploits” by the inaction of the world policeman.
It should also be borne in mind that in 1962 there was a real danger of military escalation and its development into a nuclear war, since it was impossible to calculate the logic of the actions of the biting bit of Soviet leaders. But the Soviet Union was still not a couple of Putin's Russia, although, of course, the United States was inferior then. And, nevertheless, Kennedy, despite a certain risk, acted harshly and decisively, understanding the whole danger of the peace of the Soviet predator, the adoption as a given of its increased appetites (the US underbelly decided to militarize!). But Putin, who is actually well done against the sheep, and against the young man, the sheep himself , in the case of an adequate strict reaction to his landing in Venezuela, is retreating even faster than Khrushchev. As the only time it happened a little over a year ago in the Syrian Deir ez-Zor. But Donald Trump, in his relationship with Putin, stubbornly does not want to look good (did not bring, did not bring Robert Müller his investigation to the logical end!).
Here is in this comparison: how the US leader acted in the Caribbean crisis, and how the US leader acts in the Venezuela crisis and not only, completely clearly manifested the difference in two eras and how much the current politicians crushed. Democrat Kennedy looked an order of magnitude more republican than Trump.
Kennedy’s actions eventually eliminated the danger of the Third World (Nuclear) War.
Trump's toothless warning (the first thousand in a series of warnings to Putin from the West) brought the war one more step.
Or does anyone still have doubts that this is the first one, although the American warning, will be the same Chinese as a thousand previous warnings and requirements for Putin?