Friendship is in spite

Russia's absence of a clear foreign policy concept does not at all prevent the Putin government from responding to international events, based on traditional values ​​- anti -Americanism and love of dictatorships. For the current government, as, indeed, for the Soviet, the anti -Western front has always been a matter of paramount importance. What losses our country will suffer at the same time, the Kremlin never really worried.

Today, such a policy comes to the point of absurdity. The obvious nuclear threat from the border North Korea is ignored for one single reason: the socialist DPRK is the most ardent ideological opponent of the United States. Therefore, the Kremlin prefers not to make any steps to contain the North Korean nuclear threat. Somehow they will resolve, obviously, they think there: not to abandon the union with such a strong anti-American regime!

Russia's attempts to confront the United States recently are increasingly reminding the rivalry of cannibal Ellochka with the daughter of billionaire Wanderbild. All funds and recent resources go to business to stay "at the level." Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with some kind of children's excitement evades a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State John Kerry; Russian strategic bombers fly in dangerous proximity to the American military base on Guam; Not to mention the fact that spite of the Americans decided to lime their own Russian orphans. All forces to fight America!

It is clear that anti -Western policy dictates to gambling players in the Kremlin and on Smolenskaya Square a specific attitude towards despotism. Especially to the border, especially to the former Soviet. There is a real price to pay for this: Belarus - trade benefits, the states of Central Asia - the well -being of compatriots that remained there. And much more than others.

But what does the West do in response? Almost nothing. Furious Russian efforts are almost without attention. Probably, the West writes off the Kremlin strategy for the strangeness of the Russian soul and a complex of inferiority of the current leaders. Russian threats are not seriously perceived.

Perhaps that is why Western policy in relation to Russia's close countries of Central Asia is distinguished by some ambiguity and inconsistency. Nobody believes in the creation of an authoritarian community, and these despotisms themselves cannot pose threats to anyone. No one - except the peoples of these countries. This nuance remains outside the attention of Western politicians.

The last news on this topic is the intention of Britain to leave the regime of the Uzbek dictator Islam Karimov, which she exports from Afghanistan. This was announced on February 8 by English The Times, which immediately attracted the attention of those who sees the threat to the world not only in the war with other countries, but also in violence against their own people. More than a hundred people from Uzbekistan, Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Germany, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Norway, Poland, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Ukraine and France made the governments of the UK, USA and Germany "put in the first place the priorities of human rights in the authoritarian regime of Uzbekistan, and whose conscience is thousands of ruined lives. " The authors of the appeal recall the 2005 tragedy in the Uzbek Andijan, when government troops shot a peaceful demonstration, as a result of which from 500 to 700 people died. Then the Uzbek authorities used Soviet armored personnel carriers and helicopters. Now they want to get English weapons.

"It is not too late to stop this deal. Therefore, we urge the deputies of the UK parliament not to approve it and appoint a commission that, having considered the nomenclature of the proposed technique, will determine whether it can be used against the civilian population," the appeal says.

Perhaps tough rhetoric and the threatening gestures of the Kremlin are empty fanfaronism. Perhaps Karimov’s regime does not pose a threat to other countries now. But it is also possible that over the past hundred years, the world has gained quite bitter experience to understand that the terror of the despotic regime against its people is an inevitable threat to the entire international community. This is only a matter of time. Who doubts can turn his gaze to North Korea. Those who have no doubt, he can take part in the campaign of public pressure on the Western governments in order to prevent the weapons of the Uzbek dictator with modern military equipment.