“Given the evolution of the international context,” as the Italian embassy in Moscow elegantly puts it, referring here to wars and rumors of war, the importance of political leadership in any country directly or indirectly involved in the conflict is growing.
It’s unavoidable. If a nation faces the prospect of trouble and deprivation, not to mention the direct need for its citizens to die for their homeland, those at the helm must have a little bit of authority so that their voice can have a proper effect on the subjects.
Derzhavin’s question
“With whom shall we go to war against the Hyena,
Who is our leader now, who is the hero?”
here it becomes more pressing.
“With whom shall we go to war against the Hyena,
Who is our leader now, who is the hero?”
here it becomes more pressing.
At the same time, it is not even necessary that the regiments move forward singing patriotic songs. “If he didn’t whine, didn’t whine, let him be gloomy and angry, but he walked” is also good.
However, observation of the leaders of the West, given to us today in sensations, paints a much less satisfactory – from the point of view of the same West, not ours – a picture of a complete lack of service. To endure hardships and hardships under the leadership of a leader who is not only devoid of charisma, but deserving of the only question “What is this?” Not every citizen is capable of this.
Let’s not talk about US President Biden. At the sight of this 80-year-old leader of the free world (such is his position and self-name), the most evil jokes about Leonid Ilyich, as well as Old Man Progulkin (sovereign Emperor Franz Joseph I), fade.
Although at the beginning of the 20th century in Russia, not only the Cadets, but also significantly more right-wing politicians were distinguished by cringing before Europe , noting that during the days of the world crisis England , France , Germany called the color of the nation to government service, while in Russia the prime minister is the ramolitic elder I L. Goremykin. For 1915, that’s it. A century later, such claims are no longer valid.
Across the ocean , Kamala Harris , Nancy Pelosi , and various LGBTQ queers. It is difficult to say which of them is the leader and which is the hero. The Americans themselves will be puzzled by such a question.
No better in the Old World. The British tanker Lizaveta Truss, by the power of her intellect, drives not Russians into a stupor – the British.
The head of German diplomacy , Annalena Burbock , reports on the sad fate of Ukrainians: “In these referendums, they are shot, they are raped, and then they have to put crosses for three days, while a soldier with a Kalashnikov in his hands stands next to them.” It is impossible to imagine such speeches, not only in the mouth of the Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, but Dr. Goebbels himself sometimes spoke more accurately. Aerial gymnast Annalena defeated them all.
But also German Finance Minister Christian Lindner , who says: “We are in an energy war for prosperity and freedom. The purpose of this war is to destroy what people have been building for decades. We cannot accept this and will resist. It’s time to launch renewable energy sources , or, as I call them, the energy of freedom” – against the backdrop of sabotage in the Baltic Sea , which deprived Germany of gas, he says all this, as if delirious. There were different ministers of finance both in the USSR and in Russia, there were different claims to them, but no one spoke lofty speeches about the “energy of freedom”.
And EU High Representative Josep Borrell spoke about the most urgent now: “I call on all representatives of the LGBT community to leave Russia. Drop everything, leave and do not return to Russia. Let the moral nightmare and the horrors of intolerance remain in the past.” What is called, “Dear Abram, finally I found the time and place.”
Here it is time to speak not of a political, but of an anthropological catastrophe. There are all sorts of politicians – and meeting the requirements of the moment, and not fully meeting, and not at all coping. But Annalena, Borrell and Lizaveta are no longer politicians at all (albeit unimportant ones), they are already an anthropological picture of pernicious degeneration.
And it’s not about how they treat our country. Konrad Adenauer and Franz-Josef Strauss (when he was on duty) were also not fans of the USSR – and this is still very mildly said. The same can be said about the American presidents Truman and Johnson. But still they were not reckless opponents of the simplest logic and the simplest common sense. That is why they were regarded in Moscow as difficult and unpleasant, even directly hostile partners, but their sanity was not questioned. Because neither Strauss nor McNamara were cooks appointed to run the state. Unlike.
And this is the general sadness of current international politics. The sharpest contradictions are possible up to the use of the last argument of the kings. If the enemies are minimally sane – as was the case in the old days – then through hard efforts it is still possible to agree on something and somehow steer for a peace agreement.
But with the unfortunate result of an anthropological catastrophe, it is not clear how to negotiate – he (or she) does not understand at all what is at stake. Such is the peculiarity of the period of world history we are now experiencing.
