The last refuge of the president

The epigraph to the anniversary summit of the CIS, which will be held today in the capital of Tajikistan, can be considered the words of the Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, said a few days earlier at a meeting of the leaders of the states included in the CSTO. The "Old Man" did not intend to use the troops of the organization in the event of "the intervention of other states within the CSTO countries."

In order to translate these words from Lukashenkovsky to Russian, you need to know a very simple thing: all these people - I mean most of the presidents of the CIS countries - are sure that if citizens go out into the streets, then this is for a reason. This clearly worked as the CIA, because in fact, most citizens love the defamatory and terrorizing their regimes to unconsciousness and on the streets - for American, of course, money - only a small bunch of renegads can go out. In a word, if you see people on the streets, it means that the CIA is in the city and you need to call the Commonwealth troops for the shooting of its agents. Do not take prisoners, do not regret children and women - because it is just James Bonds disguised as children and women.

It doesn’t matter if his colleague will agree with the proposals of the infinitely creative Alexander Grigoryevich. Another thing is important - they are afraid. They are afraid of the ghost of the Cairo Square and Tunisian Street, they are afraid of people who raised a riot against the crumbs who throw them from the barbell of a crazy colonel on the outskirts of their own prosperous state. They are afraid of the Ukrainian Maidan - for nothing that he ended with Yanukovych - and even the Moscow campaign of "disagreements" - for nothing that there are more police officers on it than the participants. These people live in fear and die of fear.

Of course, in the art of political survival you will not find equal. Bogatyrs are not you! Nursultan Nazarbayev and Islam Karimov created their states for themselves and for themselves in the first years after the fall of the Soviet regime - and nobody in Astana or Tashkent even occurs to the head that someone else could lead these countries. Emomali Rahmon came to power after a bloody civil war, but thanks to the ability to alternate the whip with the gingerbread, he established himself on the throne as if he was sitting on it from prehistoric - that is, party - times. And Alexander Lukashenko won the first and, of course, the last honest Belarusian presidential election. Viktor Yanukovych also won an honest election - but he does everything so that such events remain exclusively in history textbooks. Ilham Aliyev runs after papenka, Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov - after the father of all Turkmen, Dmitry Medvedev ... Well, about whether Dmitry Medvedev rules, they like to talk on the sidelines of the summits ... which, it would seem, are afraid to these people who already know, and what is the elections to the laws and rules Decorative parties, handsome as a leader.

But now they may think: there, Mubarak also knew everything, survived - and what is the result? And Gaddafi generally abolished the state - and what, son, your Jamahiria helped you? What to do, how to survive, if political intrigues no longer help, there are no economic opportunities, and there is no trust in even their own power structures? Each of the lifelong post -Soviet presidents answers this question in his own way, but Lukashenko found the quintessence of meaning: getting a mandate for the execution of his own people, and preferably by strangers - this is the best way out of the situation. When Samuel Johnson said that patriotism is the last refuge of a villain, he had in mind just such patriotism.