Tit for tat: TV proposes to impose sanctions on Europe

Sergey Mitrofanov

The statement by Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov that Russia is ready to break with Europe and start a war made a lot of noise. Many were upset. True, later the Kremlin cut Lavrov somewhat short, and told the public that they had misunderstood everything. I didn't understand, so to speak, the context. The TV took a long pause for reflection, and finally spoke up. Naturally, in support of Lavrov.

The idea of propaganda is as follows. It is not Russia that breaks with Europe, but the EU that breaks with Russia. Russia, for a sweet soul, is ready to be friends with everyone and save gas from the cold, but the side itself is passive and reactive. But in general, the EU is not Europe, we are doing well with Europe, this is evident from the conference on strategic cooperation between Russia and Germany, where businessmen write with delight, anticipating expanding ties. The EU is the occupying bureaucratic structure of the American administration. God Himself ordered to destroy it, and Russia, apparently, will provide assistance to the European expanding Resistance, if it asks. How old, gentlemen, will open the Second Front!

But while the Second Front has not yet been opened, and the Versailles Peace II, which once again humiliates Germany, has not been torn apart (* Russia, as it were, traditionally tries to free Germany from the Entente protectorate), the Russian Foreign Ministry is also trying to justify itself for human rights violations and the trial over Navalny.

In fact, according to the Foreign Ministry, and this, according to the press service, was in a film shown some time ago in Moscow to Josep Borrell, Russia is fully adopting the EU norms and practices. And these norms are "double standards", we did not come up with it.

Why are you surprised? In France, the police brutally crack down on yellow vests, and riot police (much softer, gentlemen!) Crack down on demonstrators behind Navalny. You tell us that Jehovah's Witnesses are persecuted in our country ( banned in the Russian Federation - noted by the ed. ), And in Europe mosques built with Turkish money are being closed . They also restrict freedom of religion. You are poking us with Navalny, and what are you doing with Pablo Asel?!

(* Oh, who is Pablo Asel?)

It turns out that this is a blogger from Catalonia. He composed an offensive song about the king and posted it on YouTube. He was sentenced to 9 months in prison (“For a post on Twitter!” - Skabeeva pedals, although, apparently, not only for fasting), asked to come and serve him. Asel said: I won't go, let them kidnap me. And the police went to "kidnap" Asel to the local university, where he was not hiding so much. In the theatrical smoke, Asel was politely escorted to the car. “They took it away,” Skabeeva said and continued: “Let's not sell gas to Europe until Asel is released”. A fruitful idea.

(* Mirror: Europe does not want to finish building Nord Stream 2 because of the arrested Navalny, and Russia itself does not want to supply gas to Europe because of the arrested Pablo Asel.)

And it should be noted that the story about Asel arrived in time. Arresting 9 months for a tweet is not comme il faut, it's true. Although less "comme il faut". It should also be noted that we do not really know anything about Asel. The TV even asked the Russian German Alexander Rahr, why in the West they say nothing about Asel?

“Because we didn't publish anything about him”, - Rahr replies. - There are double standards here.

(* As much as the West is interested in Navalny, while Asel is not interesting to the West)

Nevertheless, it turns out from our shuffle that the Catalan rapper Asel is a Leninist (!) And was convicted of glorifying terrorism, which is not surprising for a Leninist. At the same time, it was added that "on February 8, it was announced that the Spanish Ministry of Justice may amend the country's criminal code so that crimes related to freedom of expression are not punishable by imprisonment". So it is possible that Asel will earn herself a great publicity.

It is easy to see that in the Society-Lavrov-Kremlin conflict, TV is more likely to associate itself with the propagandists of the Foreign Ministry than with the public or the officials of the Kremlin administration, who asked Lavrov to be calm. And the propagandists of the Foreign Ministry are traditionally more radical than both the real Foreign Ministry and the Kremlin administration. If Lavrov said "you give war," then M. Zakharova will strengthen, and TV will do everything to pass off Lavrov's defeat (a forced retreat from macho rhetoric) as victory, compensating with its own machismo.

A reason to practice is the visit of the next EU emissary to Moscow, Finn Pekka Hoavist, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finland.

Finn was warned how dangerous Moscow was, but instructed not to bend. In Moscow, they didn’t troll him like Borrell, they didn’t show a movie about yellow vests and, in the end, they let him say everything he thought about the EU-Russia relationship. And he thought that Finland shares the principles of the European Union and does not share the principles of Russia.

But the TV was no longer so polite. Oleg Matveychev, a professor at the financial university under the government of the Russian Federation, fell into a controlled, or maybe not entirely controlled hysteria.

About the EU. "The European Union is a lackey, the US six".

About Finland. "This is the EU's six".

About the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finland Pekka Hoavista (remembering that Finland was the backyard of the Tsarist Empire): "He is a clown, he is a slave, a lackey and a six, six sixes, how can Lavrov talk to him?" Like a soup to give in the kitchen, whip and chase. Nobody stops the professor. And Skabeeva giggles: that's how we can!

When a deputy from Germany, Sergei Lagodinsky, was shown on the screen, he allegedly studied with Navalny at Yale University and was friends with the latter, the voice of deputy Zhuravlev is heard behind the scenes. He, too, does not restrain himself in a value judgment: "Bastard!"

It is interesting to explain why Jehovah's Witnesses are being persecuted in our country (banned in Russia - noted by the ed.). Zhuravlyov: “And they go and ring the doorbell. They stick. My voters themselves would kick them out of the district. They are also against blood transfusions”.

Hmmm, if you put in jail everyone who rings the doorbell and who are against blood transfusions... then in our country a postman who rings twice would have been a political prisoner twice.