Surrender season

Autumn is just around the corner, it's the season of giving. Everyone passes what they can: correspondence students - a session, builders - Lensk. At this time, our statesmen traditionally hand over, if not the entire government, then at least ministers individually. Confirming the pattern, the chair under Aksenenko swayed. Not for the first time, but the concerned minister unusually quickly called a press conference and said that he had only been summoned to the prosecutor's office. But the prosecutor’s office doesn’t just happen like that. How many times have Berezovsky been handed over and put on the federal wanted list? However, there are more grandiose changes, on a planetary scale: Putin announced the closure of Russian military bases in Vietnam (Cam Ranh) and Cuba (Lourdes).
It’s been a long time since there was such a delivery of special objects. The most zealous thinkers in the heat of the moment even compared Vladimir Vladimirovich with Mikhail Sergeevich, although they have not yet accused him of treason: it’s scary, but as a master, out of professional habit, he won’t understand the jokes of the servants, he will be offended!
The squeal, however, is moderate, and even then only about the electronic intelligence center in Lourdes, almost nothing about the wilderness in Cam Ranh - the complete uselessness of this facility for the needs of both defense and attack (against whom?!) is apparently obvious even to ardent fans of geopolitical alchemy.
It's not that simple with Lourdes. They say that military intelligence obtained the most amazing information there. How to check? And all these pissed-off passions about the exceptional value of intelligence information are more suitable for TV series than real life: the ex-KGB lieutenant colonel knows firsthand what spy bosses will say about ranks, orders and appropriations for the sake of it. As he also knows, if the reality in the report diverges from the idea of ​​fix politics, so much the worse for reality and the career of its author. That’s why they are often written in the “whatever you want” style.
Who can argue, intercepting the intimate murmur of Bill and Monica is cool, but tracking down Basayev, Khattab or Bin Laden... And in this situation, what’s the use of the accordion, that is, the base in Cuba, for the rental of which we have to annually pay the fiery Fidel as much as 200 million bucks! This despite the fact that the capricious bearded man refuses to pay our debts: to whom I owe, I forgive everyone!
So we are not handing over military bases, not outposts of a power, but a burden. And the illusion of warm seas.
I wish I could hand over this annoying Cheburashka, Kim Jong Il hasn’t done anything yet. Better yet, sell, but who will buy?!
Vladimir Voronov