
Question to backfill: how to justify the “tremendous expenses” related to the growth of defense expenses? Hundreds of billions of dollars that make up the sum of the upcoming "military budgets of the European Alliance countries" - how to justify them? You will never guess. But still try.
Ukraine? It is clear that you mean the annexation of Crimea and the capture of the Donbass with further freezing of the conflict, which at any moment can be defrosted, spreading the Russian spring throughout the fraternal neighboring state. They did not guess. Cold.
Syria? Well, yes, there the armies of the Russian Federation and the USA are fighting in dangerous proximity to each other and once it has already reached the direct collision of the Pentagon with the hired troops of Yevgeny Prigozhin. Moreover, the Americans, if the cook again goes to storm some factory, can repeat, and ours probably dream of revenge, which is fraught with completely unpredictable consequences. Even colder.
Radioactive dust, say? That is, the Third World War, announced at first by the favorite journalist of the Russian president, and after advertised by himself? When he, reading the message to the two chambers, the upper and lower, sometimes asked to turn on the screen and showed how easily and beautifully he was demolished from the face of the Earth, the state of Florida, and then brought the philosophical basis to his military-space superstructure. Why, Putin said, such a world to us, if there is no Russia in it - and have these seductive speeches did not appear bloody rhetorical food for American hawks? True, having heard a kind of one, it’s not that you’ll start pumping hundreds of billions into the budget - you won’t regret trillions, you will begin to scrape the quadrillions, if not? No, again by, again it’s terribly cold, just frost on the skin.
All these were weak arguments for the West to be scared and arm themselves. Just think, Crimea, Donbass, Ukraine. Eka Nevidal, Syria. What, right, trifles are winged nuclear fuel missiles. Who, if to figure it out, can seriously concern the threats of the leader of the superpower, who aloud reasoning about the completion of human history. Yes, spit and rub. You have not guessed or guess.
And the only right answer we heard from Alexander Grushko yesterday, the deputy head of the Russian Foreign Ministry. Speaking in the Valdai discussion club, he revealed the true reason for the gathered, why the Americans with their European henchmen were going to sharply increase the general military budget. It turned out that the whole thing is in Russophobia. The methodology was also designated. In order to nourish his sense of hatred of our country, to infect Western society and have a reason to arm themselves, enemies poisoned his father and daughter of Skripals, Russian citizens in London. Or, if it is more sweaty to quote the deputy minister, the "British side" was started by a "big provocation" to "throw additional combustible material into the Russophobia campaign." And you rackled your head, inventing the most tricky guesses. The correct answer, as they say, lay on the surface. Fuel is hot, even hot.
However, it remained, not completely clear, why they pulled for so long in their Brussels with allocations for a cold war with Russia. Under Gorbachev, they were disarmed. Under Yeltsin, in general, sometimes they indulged in heavy thoughts, not understanding why they needed this NATO. Under early Putin, who aloud expressed the idea of the entry of the Russian Federation into the North Atlantic Alliance, completely relaxed. They expanded just in case, yes, but exclusively under the pressure of the states of the former social camp, which for some reason headlong fled from under our wing into the arms of Washington. They knew something, probably, what no one knew or forgot. It is possible that they were all then hidden Russophobes, and now, for no reason, they have become obvious. The former Russian Permanent Representative of NATO Alexander Grushko will not lie.
At the same time, by the way, yesterday the "big provocation" with poisoning of the father and daughter was exposed. Gary Eitkenhead, director of the British defense research laboratory, where the novice poison was identified, admitted that it difficult to indicate the country of the poison manufacturer. This news in Moscow was perceived as an unexpected gift of fate and celebrated as a national holiday, and our speakers are easy to understand. Is it a joke, the chemist, saying that he is not a spy and the solution to the problem with the poisoners leaves intelligence at the discretion, was very encouraging the peace -loving Russian authorities. Since in the laboratory, having examined the poison, they did not find on it stickers with inscriptions such as "May in Ze Yuessar" or "in Ze Rasha", and this was served as a big victory. Probably, the authorities decided that the British scientists supported him and soon the enemies would be ashamed and would abandon their militaristic plans. Although it is unlikely to be ashamed, between us. It is said - Russophobes.
In short, these days it is more close to Alexander Grushko. Firstly, an unusually intelligent person turned out to be terribly insightful. Secondly, for some time he is being sent to the place of the co-standing current head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and if this happens, then we, without being afraid to make a mistake, we can say today: the minister will be amazing. No worse than Lavrov at least. Fully consistent with our ideas about Russia in 2018 and generally about the time in which we live. Easily the latter secrets of being and so eloquent that the descendants will still envy us, listeners of unheard of official statements and witnesses of an unprecedented arms race.