Congress of the winners of reality

The security forces really won. But not the West and terrorists, but its own country

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Speaking on Wednesday at the VII Moscow International Security Conference, the head of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov said, in particular that “only 25 terrorist attacks were prevented in Russia last year, four were committed. All of them were coordinated through the global network through messengers, including from the territory of Syria and Iraq. ” For a person who managed to deal with the simple logic of the Russian security forces (have those who still have not managed to figure out this logic still have left?), The hint is more than understandable: since messengers, coupled with the “global network”, have become a weapon of terrorists, then wait for new restrictions in the Internet sphere. Not for terrorists-they will somehow be able to get out, but for the most ordinary residents of Russia. It is good, of course, that the FSB prevents terrorist attacks, who would argue, but the background to Bortnikov’s statement in the news is a message about the criminal case for the repost of the record from the Telegram channel. The lawyer from Vladivostok Dmitry Tretyakov in the open chat of the Telegram messenger recited one of the recordings of the journalist Arkady Babchenko. Now Tretyakov in the pre -trial detention center, he is accused of “calls for extremist activity”, and just at the same time, when Bortnikov reported on successes, the court rejected Tretyakov’s defense of the arrest.

This is the background, and the rhyme is a press release from the Federal Security Service of the Sverdlovsk Region on Tuesday. The Chekists stopped trying to transfer secret military maps abroad. Caught attackers warned of "inadmissibility of actions creating the conditions for the Stateismman and Spying" and released. Goskanals in the news releases even had to explain in special plots - why the enemy of paper maps of secret objects, if any cards are now in the sections and freely? By the way, a clear explanation did not work out, which is not surprising. The correct explanation would have sounded somehow like this: the FSB is simply not very comfortable in reality, where the Internet and messengers (if, of course, about the fight against real terrorists, and not about the capture of fake “extremists”), but it is nice in the past, where paper cards and spies with overhead mustache. Only here such an explanation would look bad in a propaganda TV, right?

The FSB is simply not very comfortable in reality, where the Internet and messengers (if, of course, about the fight against real terrorists, and not about the capture of fake “extremists”), but it is nice in the past, where paper cards and spies with a mustache are pave

But reality is a fragile thing, the words sometimes win reality, and the power stars of the first magnitude - not only Bortnikov, also the Minister of Defense Sergey Shoigu, and the head of the foreign intelligence service Sergey Naryshkin, who performed at the same security conference, should understand this better than many others. And the point is not only in victory over the ISIS ** group banned in the Russian Federation, which was discussed repeatedly, even Vladimir Putin’s appeal to the conference participants, which was read out by the head of the Council of Security, Nikolai Patrushev, begins with mentioning this victory.

Victory over the forbidden grouping is good news, but we are talking about another victory. For years, high -ranking Russian security forces, all of the above - - Shoigu, Patrushev, and Naryshkin (when he was his speaker, the State Duma, by the way, also talked about the intrigues of the West, about the machinations of NATO, and the US desire to restore the same -sex world. They willingly referred to Madeleine Olbright invented words about the need to take Siberia from Russia, invented various horror stories to justify the meaning of their existence, their own significance and constant growth of expenses in weapons. And they acted in full accordance with their own speeches.

Now it has happened: the president scares humanity with unprecedented missiles and openly discusses the prospects of destroying the world, "in which there is no Russia." The international isolation of Russia is reality, and Russian mercenaries (which, according to Russian laws, simply cannot be), die under the blows of the American military in Syria. The Cold War in the whole goes, the West, as the Skripal case shows, is also ready to forget about the intelligible rules of the game, Russian diplomats go home (those who were sent from Moldova say, not even without joy, the rest are not without sadness).

And Naryshkin at the Security Conference shrugs and says: “It would seem that there are no objective reasons to aggravate relations. The Cold War has long ended. ” Yes, really, how did it happen?

Everything happened, the dreams came true, the security forces won. Not the West, however, won, but their own country. Now, referring to the stable growth of confrontation with NATO countries (at least something is growing stably with us, it’s nice), you can continue to pump out any money from the budget with a calm conscience, prohibit anything on the Internet, put the remains of the media and plant for reposts. Without doubting their own significance and not thinking about the meaning of their own existence. And, of course, without thinking about how much this victory - in lives and in rubles - will cost Russia.

* The author’s opinion may not coincide with the opinion of the editorial office

** Group prohibited in Russia as a terrorist