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“Better than super,” Lavrov threw on the go , commenting on the last night in Minsk. “I have no illusions. We have no illusions,” Merkel said at the end of negotiations. Between these phrases, the abyss, but both are right in their own way - both the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and Frau Chancelline. In Moscow, terribly happy. Western leaders tend to assess the situation with the sobriety with which sane people observe a drunken brawl. He will someday get tired and will subside, a drilling neighbor, and there he will dare and break out who knows. Although it is unlikely - why would it be suddenly?

There are no illusions on this subject.

The main problem is that negotiations between the West and Russia are held in unequal conditions. The leaders of the Western states, polemicizing with Putin, observe some rules that have long been painted for such cases. Sentences, sanctions, appeals to international law, calls for rejection of violence, again sanctions and persuasion again - all this has long been used in dialogues with Milosevichs of varying degrees of fatness of blood. All this is easy to predict in advance, every step.

As for the last step, when the world community that has lost patience is forced the world of an unblinking partner, the experience shows that this does not happen soon. For the reserves of patience are almost limitless. And the possibilities are limited if we recall the nuclear shield of the Motherland with its inherent radioactive ash.

Therefore, Vladimir Vladimirovich walks around the buffet. The commander in chief of the state, which, imagine, is "not a party in the conflict" of Ukraine and Donbass, he persuades the heads of the DPR and the LPR with considerable difficulty to sign a final document. They, so ruffled, at first refuse . He also reports that he spent not the best night in his life, and this is an important political statement. Who are we at all to encroach on the President’s personal life? Finally, during his Minsk press conference, it turns out that he and Poroshenko will soon resolve the most important question: who surrounded whom in the Debaltsev region? This question, he said, will now deal with military experts. And if it turns out that they surrounded the Ukrainian army there, then Putin, then, replayed everyone again. With a hill, it turns out, there was a question.

In the dry residue - zero. An agreement, not signed by anyone from the heads of states, which consulted 14 hours in Minsk. The next invasion of Russian armored vehicles across the holey border, and exactly at those hours when the welcoming penultimate European dictator personally served, carrying coffee, his dear guests. In the dry remnant, war and sanctions, which Putin do not care, how to do not care about everything that is not related to the retention of personal power and the expansion of its borders. In the dry residue - “better than super” and “no illusions”, and these comments on the sidelines of the summit are comprehensive.

This always happens when one side strives for peace and the cessation of mass killings, and the other kills and is constantly preparing for a new war. When some have human lives on the scales, and the other has an ambition and continuous geopolitics, in which there is no place for living people. When the dictionary varies radically: some have laws and boundaries, and the other has “Novorossiya”, “Russian world”, “sacred Korsun” and other Sudeters. They speak different languages, and there is no translator who can explain the meaning of individual outlandish words and verbal constructions. No one has yet issued even the simplest phrasebook to transfer from universal to Putinsky and vice versa. Because it is almost impossible to master at once two of these languages, living and dead.

Only the beaten paths remain. These are the same persuasion, and sanctions, and sleepless nights with Putin, who has completely different ideas about happy nights, and here even something human wakes up in it. As well as the essentially oral agreements in which it is important not to mention the DPR and the LPR, but to fix the requirement to cease, the withdrawal of "foreign troops" and military equipment, the monitoring of the OSCE and the border overlap, and all this has not the slightest value. Since the withdrawal of the occupation forces means the end of the fratricidal war and an ambulance, perhaps the bloodless surrender of gangs in the Donbass, which is completely unacceptable for the Kremlin.

However, it is still better to talk than fight, and if the partner is hopeless, then you need to pull the time, conquering days and watches from the upcoming war. And if at least Nadezhda Savchenko, in the framework of inaccurate Minsk agreements, will be able to get out of prison, then it was not for nothing that they met. It is definitely not in vain.

Finally, historical time also works against Putin, works quietly and tirelessly. This is an ordinary law of human life, and there is a hope to get trouble and someday come to new times without it, so unbending. Wait for another interlocutor in the Kremlin who perceives human speech and logical arguments. At least capable of hearing them. And such, due to the cyclicality of Russian history or for inexplicable reasons, also sometimes go up to the throne. Literally yesterday and the day before yesterday. But the deadlines are unknown to anyone, which is why there are no illusions, and it is good that they are not. This, you know, is very encouraging that with illusions in conversations with Vladimir Putin, Western politicians are over forever. This is better than super.