Morning after the "peaceful ultimatum"

Leonid Gozman - about how in the Kremlin they stopped worried and fell in love with a bomb

“In the beginning was a word” - not only at that beginning. The word at the beginning of all - the word precedes any business and any nightmare.

The pogrom, Jewish or Armenian, occurs after the words “Jew” or “Hach” were heard many times, as well as explanations of the maliciousness of these nations. A nuclear war can also happen only after the words about it are publicly sounded, they will stop scaring and become commonplace. They sounded!

They have been sounding for a month now: we’ll bomb everything, but what should we do when we are provoked, and the Americans in Hiroshima what they did. Teachings are held on the use of nuclear weapons - it is emphasized that not strategic, we are peaceful people, not animals. Let's kill, that is, but not to death. And the exercises, of course, exclusively in response to the aggressive policy of the NATO bloc. In the concept of security, they change something and fit something there. Nobody needs the concept itself, this is not our bosses that, when making historical decisions, to be guided by some documents there, but the changes made to it are a signal. The possibility (necessity, inevitability) of using the bomb is mentioned at all levels and so often that “this is impossible” is replaced by the question: “When and where?”

They talk about the bomb on TV, says Shoigu, wild nonsense, but Medvedev carries about the bomb. Putin constantly speaks of her.

And here is a new ultimatum . We agree to the world, says Putin. Just give us, the illegitimate Zelensky, another piece of your country (the one that we cannot capture), do not enter NATO, well, and denactive. The latter - nothing can be verified about anything and that is why it is very important - we can always say that you have not fulfilled our conditions. Well, the West (your "shitty allies", as the former president of the Russian Federation Medvedev affectionately called them) must immediately remove sanctions from us. And then the world is the world forever. About how after the seizure is captured.

About the world forever. A couple of days before their deafening victory over common sense - 87 percent of the fellow citizens officially voted “for”! - Putin said that the reunification of Ukraine and Russia is inevitable. All of Ukraine, not just Crimea and four regions. In this - in the destruction of Ukraine as a subject, in its disappearance - and is the purpose of the war, and the ultimatum speaks only of intermediate goals.

But our authorities, of course, did not expect that their ultimatum would be accepted - by the way, he was rejected by the main actors just a few hours after the announcement. Then why is he?

Freud considered his strange things that do not fit into logic informative for understanding. All this war does not fit into anything.

She has no pragmatic goals. This is not an access to the seas for which the first Russian emperors fought, these are not strategic resources, to which, fighting with the USSR, Hitler broke through. The accession of some territories, although all of Ukraine, will not make Russia stronger or richer, will not reduce the level of threats and will not reveal the way to new heights, which is not understood by them. This war of the early Middle Ages, when one feudal lord could go to war on another simply because he offended him with something, did not show his proper honors. Putin began this war from resentment against all the world who did not want to recognize his greatness, and even not understanding this world. He believed that the Ukrainians would not resist, but in the early days of the war he urged the Ukrainian military to make a coup. And, it seems, he waited for them to meet with flowers. Did you see the Soviet films about the war?

The ultimatum was put forward to an objectively unsuccessful moment for Russia - the offensive on Kharkov choked, Ukrainians successfully beat in Russian territory, they supply them again, and they become easier with money. The pendulum clearly swayed in their direction. Yes, and a summit in Switzerland - a hundred participants, after all, for which the ultimatum will clearly be a rallying factor against Russia.

Then why? After the first ultimatum of the end of 2021, in which they demanded that NATO were “cleaned up”, they went to Kyiv. Where are they gathered now?

Or is it just blackmail? Keep me seven, I'm crazy. It’s better to bite me away, at least leave Ukraine alone with me. Well, even with Iran and North Korea. Otherwise, nuclear weapons, I have nothing else left, I have everything that I could, and so I use it. Look, what we did with Volchansky, we will do this with your cities (they talk about it on TV).

But this is also the same offense, because of which the war began. I am in my right, I am the emperor, but that the earth is mine, so Bogdan Khmelnitsky wrote about that - so the document has been preserved. But you do not recognize my rights, you do not respect me, and Ukrainians - it’s not for nothing that they are stupid and stubborn - they all continue meaningless resistance, smart people would have long surrender. Well, I will slap the door so much that it will not seem a little.

Our authorities, as an offset child offended by the whole world, hid in a corner and dream of how they will take revenge on everyone. It is bad that they have something to take revenge (unless, of course, the nuclear arsenal exists, and is not the same myth as, for example, the Armata tank, which, as it stalled at the parade, has disappeared - no one else saw it).

But I'm afraid it's even worse. They are not just ready, they want, irrationally, without any logic, they want to use nuclear weapons, they dream of it. And the worse for Putin the summit in Switzerland passes, the better - it will be possible to convince your people who definitely does not want to be surrounded by, that they surrounded us, nowhere to go! And Belgorod is bombing, and the ships are drowned, and they will soon come to Moscow. And after all, we offer the world - they do not want, bastards.

Many do not pay attention to the words of politicians - they say, it is important what they do, and not what they say. Of course, there are such as Zhirinovsky - a tongue without bones, which he spoke there, he did not remember in five minutes. But Putin is not at all like that, he, oddly enough, often tells the truth. He said during the Duma campaign of 2007 that the liberals were enemies, so they are sitting in prisons. He declared enemies the West (when he just began to use this rhetoric, many reassured others and himself-it was he, for domestic consumption, in fact he is a Westerner), so he is fighting. Holds, in general, a word.

And now everything is about the bomb. And he already threatens not only with the mouths of Medvedev and television clowns, but himself. Here small countries warned with the high population density. And much more has already been - hear, finally!

He wants to use nuclear weapons, he probably has already painted goals and the schedule is approved. If, like after the first ultimatum, it will happen day. To make a mistake!

I hope this can still be prevented. But the necessary condition is that he abandoned his plans (unless, of course, my assumptions about his intentions are true) is his understanding that the answer will be immediate and terrible. After all, there was a moment when our bosses started talking about nuclear weapons, and then sharply fell silent. Then there were rumors that either SI or the Americans through SI said that it was not necessary to do this, otherwise it would be so. It will be bad! And he, as it seemed then, believed.

My impression is that now he has ceased to be afraid of the West, stopped believing in the possibility of a response blow, at least while everything is happening in Ukraine. He despises the West, considers it leaders talkers and panties, and therefore believed in his impunity. I think the West has literally left days to convince him.

The time for those who believe in God to ask him to spare humanity.