Posted 24 мая 2021, 07:29
Published 24 мая 2021, 07:29
Modified 24 декабря 2022, 22:37
Updated 24 декабря 2022, 22:37
Sergey Mitrofanov
The TV week began blues, stuck with a needle on the track "Zelensky-Medvedchuk", but then it went rock and roll. Biden backed down, announcing the reduction, or even the abolition of sanctions for the construction of Nord Stream 2, and Putin (in response?) Promised to kick in the teeth to anyone who encroached on even a centimeter of our land. The case smelled like a strong triumph for Russia and for the President personally.
But before that there was a story with Viktor Medvedchuk.
As far as one can understand, the problem was that defending a Ukrainian politician from the Ukrainian political administration was not entirely handy for the Moscow Kremlin. And it is impossible not to defend, because Medvedchuk is like our person and a particularly valuable “foreign agent” of Russia, if you approach him with modern Russian legal standards. And “ours” don't give up theirs. In any case, not all.
Therefore, Dmitry Peskov constantly emphasized (by phone) that the conflict around Medvedchuk is entirely an internal affair of Ukraine, the Kremlin does not intend to interfere in it, which does not prevent him, however, from being surprised and even amused by the fact that Kiev is spreading rot against its best patriot of Ukraine. which also offered to save the Ukrainians from the pandemic "Sputnik-V". But the Ukrainian authorities seem not to be frightened by the mountains of the corpses of their citizens, and therefore Medvedchuk's initiative does not find support.
Nevertheless, everyone understands that it would probably not be very good for Moscow to abandon Putin's "godfather" to be devoured by the Kiev authorities. And Moscow is not going to do this in reality. Moreover, judging by the statements of the TV, a cunning plan of blackmail was invented. If Medvedchuk is mostly blamed for doing business with Moscow, i.e. with the aggressor state in the coordinates of Ukrainian political rhetoric, the Kremlin offered to publish the names of all representatives of the Kiev nobility, which does business with Russia. Of course, not in order to betray potential friends of Moscow, but in order to dissolve Medvedchuk in this mass of "collaborators", or to make them all afraid (that they will no longer be elected to the Rada or that the prosecutor's office will also take care of them), and so that they go and influence President Zelensky. Moreover, the list begins right with Zelensky's wife, who owns real estate in Crimea. (They show an elite mansion that a Russian correspondent is trying to get into.)
On this, the plot with Medvedchuk is paused for the time being. He is pursued, put under house arrest, but he is still a strong figure on the chessboard.
And the plot with potential negotiations between Putin and Biden is gaining momentum. On the eve of such a meeting, the Americans decided to send "signals of good" to Russia. Biden has publicly considered the option of allowing Russia to complete the construction of Nord Stream 2, for which he received reproaches from the Trumpists that his administration "got into bed with Putin" even more zealously than the Trump administration. Meanwhile, TV for some reason gladly quotes the Trumpites and at the same time does not believe in Biden's good intentions. As our presenters wittily remarked, "they fool our heads with stardust-striped dust".
Obviously, in exactly the same mood, Lavrov went to meet with Blinken. And again there was a mismatch in interpretations. Polite (this time!) Lavrov expressed himself in the sense that the parties had a desire to clean up the rubble (sent a signal of goodness). And the TV did not hesitate to doubt this. Diplomats are diplomats, why? And we’ll say it bluntly: there are no friends there, they are not colleagues, as diplomats like to call them, they are just plain enemies, goats. Lavrov offered a helping hand, and Blinken rejected this hand.
According to TV, because Biden allows the completion of Nord Stream 2, which wants to strengthen relations with Germany. And since Germany has to pay its 2% of its contributions to NATO, then let it make money on Nord Stream-2. In other words, let Nord Stream 2 contain NATO!
At the same time, Blinken does not abandon the idea of continuing to complicate the operation of this pipeline until it stops completely. As the expert of all subjects, the president and founder of the "Center for Strategic Communications" Dmitry Abzalov, explained that everything must be certified there, and it is not a fact that it will ever be possible to achieve a full-fledged pumping! Meanwhile, Ukraine, whose own gas transit comes under attack from Russia if a new pipeline is launched, has sent a letter to Biden asking him not to ease the sanctions pressure.
Suddenly…
Suddenly, at a virtual meeting of the Victory organizing committee, Putin said that Russia would "knock out its teeth" to everyone who tried to "bite off" at least a centimeter from it. Who wants to bite off, where this centimeter is - remained unclear in our talk show. If about Crimea, then yes - since 2014, when it became "ours", they want to bite it back. But maybe Putin already considers Donbass "our"? Moreover, the deputy Zhuravlev dreamed that Shoigu was dozing on the sidelines at the computer at that time (it was a video conference), and then he heard that it was necessary to knock out his teeth, and immediately began to be keenly interested: who and where, but without the "why"...
The statement is strong, and it seems to formulate a proposal to Biden through it. If Biden can offer Putin something concrete in the development of relations - Nord Stream-2, then Putin can only offer Biden ... not to knock out his teeth. In general, this is the only thing that Russia can offer to the modern West - not to complicate life. Do you think the West will admire such a gift?
But the audience likes it. "General" Igor Korotchenko "makes a speech about the invincible power of Russian weapons. It turns out that only one salvo from the Borey submarine of 12 ammunition sets immediately destroys the middle-western country. Such a unique salvo is called "Crocodile" - the host Ye. Popov adds with a touch of holy delight. And the deputy Zhuravlev proposes to give Korotchenko diplomatic status and take him to negotiations with Blinken in the future, so that before the beginning he would read lectures about Borey.
"But it won't help", - Ye. Popov jokes risky (is he joking?), - "so we also have Boshirov and Petrov".
However, the propagandists agree that, regardless of the West, we still need to raise our economy so that the West does not catch up. What a correct thought, however! Never crossed my mind.