Alexander Golts: "Dialogue by means of" Bastion "

“In a variety of Russian foreign policy tools, a killer, in every sense, is becoming increasingly important. This time it is the latest Coastal Coastal Country Defense complex,” writes the chief editor of the Daily Journal .

"Recently, the Minister of Defense reported to the president:" Bastion "was perfectly shot in Syria. And not for sea purposes, but for terrorists. Skeptics claim that in this case the homing heads do not work. And" point "strokes were actually delivered in the squares. The baton immediately picked up the Kaliningrad. The S-400 and the Iskander-Tactical missiles (the Americans consider it unacceptable to create a useless zone over the Baltic), as the informed source told Interfax: in the Western region the Bastion was also deployed .

"The Far East is not behind. The next day the newspaper of the Pacific Fleet" Battle Watch " told : the ubiquitous Bastion appeared on the southern chicken - the islands of Iturup and Kunashir. You can’t help but see that the note appeared very on time. Three weeks later the main Russian boss will go on a visit to Japan."

"But it is necessary to happen this way: at the moment when Moscow makes all kinds of Tokyo advances, the Bastion unfolds on the disputed islands. Obviously, in order to further strengthen the Japanese hopes for good Putin's will to comprehensive cooperation in disputed territories."

"... The incident can have two explanations. It cannot be ruled out that naval journalists have lost political vigilance, did not understand that everything that is happening now on the southern chicken is in the center of attention. Then, of course, they will heal the first number.

But it is possible that the placement of the Bastion on Kunashir and Iturup is an important part of a complex diplomatic game. After all, the most perspicacious of the Kremlin strategists probably see: at the end, Russian-Japanese negotiations will inevitably wait for a dead end. It is impossible to imagine the situation that Putin, carefully creating the glory of the "collector of the Russian lands", takes a chance to give the islands.

It is just as incredible that Japan refuses to return these islands. And Moscow creates in advance what the president calls the “negotiation position” (this is how he described the crazy ultimatum presented to the United States in connection with the cancellation of the agreement to destroy Plutonium).

In this logic, you need to stuff more chicken with weapons, and then start long-long negotiations on the demilitarization of the islands. It will not be difficult to provide positive dynamics here. As the Bastion was placed, we will remove it. And the Japanese are satisfied, and the islands are intact ... "