Camed Kim

A gloomy view of things is almost always true, but there is no rule without exception, and here you have a fresh example. When a week ago, immediately after voting in Congress for anti -Russian sanctions, Secretary of State Tillerson suggested that now the relations of Moscow and Washington could improve, this sounded like a mockery. The Russian Embassy in the United States expressed an understandable "bewilderment". Prime Minister Medvedev, falling into a sin of despondency, prophesied the Cold War for many decades. However, the situation gradually began to change. For the better.

First, the heads of the foreign policy departments of Russia and America spoke on the phone, and "professionally and without militaryness." Then the Americans and Russians, together with the Chinese, jointly voted in the UN Security Council for tightening sanctions against North Korea. And yesterday, after the meeting of Lavrov and Tillerson in Manila, it was announced to restore the diplomatic communication channel between the deputy heads of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the State Department, which was closed at the initiative of the Russian side a month and a half ago.

In general, one gets the impression that things really were slowly went in the way. The inconsolable Medvedev seemed to be mistaken. It turned out to be right, a cold -blooded and experienced Secretary of State, a gentleman of our Order of Friendship.

The plot, apparently, developed like this. Dear partners approached the edge of the abyss, looked there, looked at each other, agreed that the abyss, opening underfoot, inspired them with similar feelings, and began to slowly crawl. In the language of diplomacy, to find the points of contact in search of consensus.

And where to look for them? In Crimea - impossible. In the Donbass - it’s better not to even start. As for Syria, Putin and Trump seemed to have agreed to observe a truce in the southwest of this country, which did not contribute to the rapprochement of America with Russia. Equal to the cessation of the process of sluggish impeachment to the US President following the results of secret meetings of the players of his team with the players of the enemy team and the obvious special matters of patriotic Russian hackers. Nobody will return summer cottages either, this is not a sandwich. However, it turns out, it turns out, peacefully or at least without signs of militaryness to talk on the phone, recreate the Ryabkov -Shannon communication channel and suddenly show unanimous, discussing the issue of increasing sanctions pressure on the DPRK.

This is the structure of the current world, in fact, paradoxical. For in it two states, constantly punishing each other, agree that in order to improve the situation in the world, it is necessary to severely punish the third. To complete the picture, only North Korean response sanctions against Moscow are not enough here, but this is excluded, since Russia, in old memory, maintains relatively friendly relations with the very single Kim Jong -un. To quarrel loudly with Putin, under the influence of sanctions, the Pyongyang regime can hardly afford.

Worse than that (for North Korea). Judging by how negotiations between Russia and America were on the eve of voting in the Council of Councils, the fate of Kim Jong -un today becomes a bargaining card in a large geopolitical game and hangs in the balance. Otherwise, do not explain the Kremlin’s advisability when discussing a resolution, in the text of which there is no thesis that there is no military solution to the DPRK problem. At first, the members of the Russian delegation insisted on, but later they gave themselves to convince.

In other words, the military solution to this problem is considered, which forces us to recall the persistent attempts of the President of the Russian Federation to put together with the West some latest "anti-Hitler" coalition and become a faithful ally of Washington and Brussels. The counter -terrorism, as we know, did not set. But Kim Jong -un, who literally got everyone with his radioactive ash, can be the perfect Hitler for beating with American weapons with the silent support of Moscow. Like, for example, Saddam Hussein shortly before the first war in the bay, when the United States and the USSR jointly voted against the Iraqi dictator.

In general, the war with Pyongyang may be profitable for many. Trump, who in this way for a long time, if not forever ending the threat of impeachment. The DPRK neighbors, who, in the case of lightning -fast, with terrible losses for the inhabitants of North Korea, will be spared the permanent danger of nuclear massacre. Well, Russia, if she manages to exchange her complaisance for a certain imitation of rebooting with America. There is even the idea that Vladimir Vladimirovich recently chased a pike the other day, and, having caught it, demanded geopolitical tips, and the pike conversation in the dull hands of the fisherman. So this is either not so, but the fact is evident: Washington and Moscow are quite peacefully discussed on various important topics, which should be recognized as encouraging news.

Nevertheless, a gloomy view of things is almost always true, which should not be forgotten, reflecting on the future. After all, no matter what happened tomorrow, Ukraine, as it was, remains a partially occupied country. Russia as it was and remains an aggressor and violator of international laws. The contradictions between the world of civilized and Putin remain insoluble and the problems that share them, in principle unresolved. And this means that the Cold War will continue in the correspondence polemic of Medvedev with Tillerson the rights of the still miserable Russian prime minister.

He looks in the root , noting the powerlessness of the poor Trump in a duel with his implacable opposition - with the legislative power - and predicting the decades of Russia under sanctions. “If some miracle does not happen,” adds Dmitry Anatolyevich, who will breathe optimism into us. However, what a miracle should happen, he is silent, and we have to conceive him, pessimists and optimists. After all, everyone has their own idea of ​​the miracle, unlike the end of the world, which is one at all.