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LETET from experience
Mikhail Sergeevich " is very disappointed with how the current leaders are doing business." The ex-president of the USSR calls on Trump and Putin "as soon as possible" to meet and collide. Gorbachev believes that “we need a new version of the Mir movement,” in which voters could put pressure on their rulers.
Just do not comment on his speech in the spirit that they are not interesting to anyone. Firstly, this is true, and offensive to the former leader of the superpower, and there is absolutely no need to speak such a truth out loud. There is no need to offend a person of a very elderly and deserved. Secondly, this is our great universal trouble that the point of view of the Secretary General, who, relatively recently, by historical standards, managed to end the Cold War and establish normal relations with the West, is not in demand today. That is, to what the world has reached, if a completely natural call in the current conditions emanating from the sophisticated politician is perceived as a children's babble.
In fact, what Putin and Trump can agree on each other, even if they met even in the foreseeable terms and locked themselves on “one or two days (for) a serious conversation with the participation of foreign ministers and defense”, as Mikhail Sergeyevich proposes? And on what issues to agree on them: in Ukraine, in Syria? .. As for the "movement for peace", then in the West it has existed since the Old Soviet times, with the Kremlin’s money, and it is simply impossible to imagine such a mass pacifist movement in Russia.
And the situation is such that the specific statements of the generals these days cause much more living responses than abstract declarations of peacekeepers. No, I do not want to say that a large war with catastrophic consequences is inevitable, but its probability increases day by day. More and more deviating from the insignificant values.
Why did it happen?
Apparently, in order to understand this, two established stereotype should be questioned. About Putin as a clever tactic and a useless strategist. And that the era of the confrontation of the two systems - the authoritarian communist and market democratic - has ended after the collapse of the USSR and today there are no objective ideological reasons for fundamental conflicts. Everyone became capitalists, and they are trading in the market, but do not fight.
The strategy of the Russian national leader, which becomes clearer every year, is reduced to provoking chaos on the planet. As the only argument in the polemic with the West, he uses nuclear weapons - and hardly because he fell in love with a bomb in early childhood. There are no other arguments, but this one in any dispute, whether Crimea, hackers or the fate of Assad, acts quite convincingly. The reason for maneuvers here is the collapse of the indestructible union, which Putin quite sincerely calls the largest geopolitical catastrophe and takes revenge for this failure, and the ultimate goal is not yet visible. It is possible that, following individual thinkers of the century before last, he sees Russia either the Great or the deceased. However, unlike thinkers, Putin owns a famous suitcase with a button, and this introduces a special intrigue into his discussion with the first world countries.
In general, the strategy of the President of the Russian Federation, obviously, is to bring the world to the edge, and then offer your conditions of the transaction with the West. He must believe that the enemies will not want to complete the history of mankind because of the Crimea, Donbass, Damascus, and there it will be possible to swing to Tallinn, and other beautiful post-Soviet cities and countries. Until now, he is almost impunity, except for the multi -billion dollar economic losses, discussed with America and Europe in this language available without translation. What will happen next - God is the news, but he, you will agree, is remarkable. Constantly replaying everyone, and so - to the very end.
Regarding the ideology of the case, too, is not easy. Say, in the First World War states fought that more likely shared sales markets, and did not bring the lights of any unfading ideas to the neighbors. And thinking on this topic in relation to the times of thaw or stagnation, you are inclined to the idea that the ideological war of the Soviet agitprop completely lost long before the Kremlin left the floodplains and the West. Actually, even under Brezhnev, it was not so easy to meet an idiot who is blindly believed in communism, even on the street or in a tram. On the contrary, the national-patriotism of the known lady in Putin Russia is experiencing heyday, and here the Second World War and its arsonist are more likely to come in memory.
Hitler, no matter how brutal this example, had precisely ideological discrepancies with the West, as well as with the East. Plus longing for revenge and a dream to combine the most divided people divided in the world with its extra chromosome. True, the Fuhrer could only dream about the miracle-arranged, which was noticeably different from our national leader, but rather for the better. In short, modern Russia and the West shares the abyss, and this abyss is just ideological. In Moscow, European values are hated with all their hearts, and this feeling is deepening over the years. In America and on the old continent, they are more clearly understanding where our large sick country moved and came, and unspoken, outrageous, monstrous speeches, equating the legally chosen Russian to the legally chosen Austrian, are increasingly sounding. Even from the lips of politicians of the first row.
Last night, when all projects of the resolution on the mechanism of investigation of chemical attacks in Syria were consistently blocked in the UN Security Council, another sweeping step to a direct clash was committed. Gorbachev forgotten now was not heard and could not hear. Therefore, the future, the closest one, is becoming more unpredictable, and we can only indulge in nostalgic memories these days. About how three decades ago humanity was lucky with Mikhail Sergeyevich, and this moment should be fixed. In the vague hope that someday, if we live, Russia is lucky with someone again and we will not miss a new chance.