Non -symphomatic shock. What does Moscow achieve by raising the United States obviously impossible ultimatum?

“Well, how is it a banner? - Ostap asked impudently. - reaches? " The scene of the demonstration on the campaign made of a poster made by Bender and Kisoy Vorobyaninov recalled when viewing a briefing of the deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Ryabkov. A senior Midovsky official represented two of the document made by the document (I can’t believe that they were professional diplomats) - draft security agreements with the United States and NATO. These documents were supposed to specify Russia's requirements for a detailed discussion with the West of the country's security threats, which, as Vladimir Putin said to the American president during negotiations, are growing.

And now Russia has prepared something in comparison with what the letter of the Cossacks of the Cossacks of the Turkish Sultan looks like the height of diplomatic sophistication. Sergei Ryabkov was well aware of what he was representing. And so he behaved with the impudence of Ostap. “Everyone on the dish [was presented to you],” he said, referring to future negotiation partners. “You just have to subscribe to this.” This can be done in general in a couple of days. ”

What to talk about when there is nothing to talk about

If you take these documents seriously, then we can confidently say that they are a new word in diplomacy. Or, more precisely, this is a fundamental nonsense. Because these proposals do not leave the opportunity to find a compromise. For example, the draft agreement with the United States contains an obligation to “refuse to support organizations, groups and individuals who advocate an unconstitutional change in power, as well as any actions aimed at changing the political or social system of one of the contracting parties.” The issues of external and internal security have never been mixed in documents of this kind so far. Neither Brezhnev nor Gromyko could have occurred to tie the issues of strategic offensive weapons demanding Washington’s refusal to support dissidents.

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