Closing America

Hugo Chavez's visit did not go without harm for some of the senior Russians. Anti-American psychosis turned out to be contagious. This became apparent when an unnamed domestic diplomat told news agency reporters what he thought about Republican presidential candidate John McCain's recent tough talk about Russia. Let me remind you that he said several things that were unpleasant for Moscow. Namely, that Russia continues to be ruled by Vladimir Putin, who is leading the country along a “harmful path.” That Russia has turned into an “autocracy.” And that he, McCain, if elected president, will fight to “make them (that is, Russian leaders - A.G.) realize that the G8 was created as a group of democratic states that share common values ​​and principles.”

You can agree with McCain or not, but it is clear that he is of sound mind and sober memory. The same cannot be said about our nameless hero of the Russian diplomatic front, who gave McCain a beating. This foreign policy official first decided to explain to the Americans who they really are. It turns out that “America is on the verge of a full-blown existential crisis,” “The United States is on the path to drastic, painful change,” and “first, they will have to learn to live within their means.” Of course, the United States is not currently experiencing the best period in its history, but it is not the worst either. Just remember the early 70s: the shame of Vietnam, Watergate, and a little later the Arab oil embargo. And nothing, they changed the president, changed the policy and got out. So statements about a “full-scale existential crisis” make us think not so much about the difficulty of the US situation, but about the adequacy of the one who makes such statements. If we seriously accept the possibility of this full-scale crisis, then the people responsible for Russian foreign policy should not gloat, but ring all the bells. Most of our state's reserve funds are in American securities, which in the event of a full-scale crisis will turn to dust.

It is also interesting to find out to whom and why Russia will supply the most expensive thing - oil - in the event of a full-scale crisis, which will certainly hit both Europe and China. The latter will simply have nowhere to sell his goods.

Having outlined the gloomy future of the United States, the unknown Foreign Ministry official decided at the same time to describe how unreasonable the course they are pursuing towards Russia and how terrible the consequences of this course could be for the United States. “Everything is fine as long as they don’t tell us how to behave, who to be friends with, who to sleep with, and who to turn out the door. In the end, we can’t baptize our children with them; we have someone to communicate with even without them.” Indeed, Moscow has wonderful interlocutors. Why is Chavez so bad, you ask? And Ahmadinejad? And Mugabe? What about the Burmese generals? In general, if you want, you will have someone to talk to. It’s just unclear how, having refused dialogue with Washington, Moscow is going to participate, for example, in the G8 or in the Russia-NATO Council. If we don’t want to be present in the G8, then why be offended by McCain?

With all this, the Russian Foreign Ministry intends to terribly punish the arrogant Yankees: “We can reach the point when we can stop conducting substantive discussions on issues of interest to the American side.” And in general there is a proposal to shut down America to hell. Moscow, said the diplomat (that is, a person who, by definition, is engaged in establishing connections with the outside world) can afford “not to have any relations at all with certain partners.” The threat is, of course, serious. Even Joseph Vissarionovich and Nikita Sergeevich did not risk abandoning all contacts with the main “potential enemy,” which prevented either the Korean War or the Cuban Missile Crisis from escalating into a nuclear war. Today, as far as I understand, Washington is interested in contacts with Moscow only because of its contacts with Iran. Because the not very adequate leaders of this state seem to have some kind of “special relationship” with Moscow. And Russia, in response, is blocking any serious sanctions against Tehran in the UN Security Council. In theory, it is assumed that thanks to this “special relationship” Russia will be able to somehow set Iran on the right path. Now, to call a spade a spade, the Russian diplomat threatens that Russia will cease to represent the civilized world and will simply become the main one among rogue countries. It's possible. But this only means that at some point the Americans may return to the concept of mutual deterrence. That is, in response to Russian assistance to Iran in its nuclear program, the United States may increase the threat against our country. If this happens, we will return to the situation of the 70-80s of the last century. A situation where our country was forced to spend all its oil dividends on a nuclear confrontation with the United States.

I don’t think anyone in the Foreign Ministry seriously wants to return to nuclear confrontation. But the team just came to blurt out something. If the Prime Minister easily decided to bring down the entire Russian stock market, then God himself ordered the Foreign Ministry to do something appropriate. And the Foreign Ministry closed America. It's just scary to think what could happen tomorrow. The Foreign Ministry will also close Western Europe. In the end, the globe of the Russian Foreign Ministry will resemble a gnawed apple.