Get out of yourself

Today, Vladimir Putin is again holding a familiar show, by a misunderstanding, called the final press conference. I have no doubt that this year it will be the show of Putin the “peacekeeper”, and not Putin “warrior”. Putin has already helped everyone, defeated everyone - it remains only to withdraw the troops. It is no coincidence that on the eve of this press conference Vladimir Vladimirovich flew to Khmeimim and solemnly announced the withdrawal of Russian troops from Syria. Once again.

Putin does not at all risk anything when he talks about the withdrawal of troops. In the light of his previous statements in Syria, Russian troops from this ruined and bombed country should have been withdrawn for a long time - so it is very difficult to understand who Putin was going to withdraw and who he would withdraw, for example, a few months later, when he would again want to be known as a large peacekeeper. In the conditions of a "hybrid" war, Russian troops can be introduced and withdrawn depending on the propaganda intentions of the commander in chief - and not only from Syria. From Donbass too.

Because it is completely incomprehensible what kind of settlement in this Ukrainian territory, what compromise can be agreed in Minsk or at a meeting of Russian and American intermediaries, if the most important problem is the problem of occupation - the Kremlin is not recognized. If “they are not there” and there were never, if the whole nightmare, who destroyed the Donbass and deprived the prospects of its inhabitants, was arranged by the “oppressed miners”.

And will it be possible to believe Putin if, after some time, the Russian president announces leaving not from Syria, but from Ukraine? How can he leave if he is not there? How can this care can be controlled - even if you put a security guard from the UN to each OSCE observer? How can it be possible to guarantee that, having left, he will not return and will not declare his absence again? How can you agree with Ichtamett? How can you believe the Imtamnet? How can the troops be withdrawn by the one who does not admit that he was introduced?

The biggest problem of Putin's wars is not even their cynicism and meaninglessness. This is their anonymity. Regular troops are declared volunteers. Mercenaries are the rebellious people. If neither one nor the other is triggered, "green men" appear, as in the Crimea, sleeping shoulder straps and chevrons until better times.

It is like a war with the devil, invisible, false and ubiquitous. The expulsion of the devil has always been the most difficult task of any religion, any priest, any miracle worker. Because the most difficult it was not to believe the devil when he assured that he was not there, that he had already escaped from a mutilated soul, that he was already afraid of prayer and a cross. But in fact, the devil remained, undefeated and mocking - and waited in the wings.

The Devil was the very first Iltamet. Putin learned from him.