At first, an informal summit of 27 member countries was planned in Prague, then it was decided that this time it would be more expensive to “enclose” those who were promised membership with a bag of cookies and a jar of jam, so they preferred to combine it . And invite everyone. Except Russia and Belarus.
On the one hand, a closed club of gentlemen sitting in the stalls, on the other, a noisy gallery that wants to shake the rights.
The idea of creating a kind of association of European countries that are not included in the high assembly of the European Union, but at the same time do not want to be treated like second-fresh sturgeon, belongs to Emmanuel Macron .
Having expressed it at the summit, when France was completing its EU presidency , the country’s leader took up something else, but the nimble bureaucracy, realizing that it was possible to expand its powers here, immediately gave an amorphous association in every sense an external gloss.
And now the leaders of states and governments of more than tens of countries have been on an accelerated meeting with each other, which took place in the capital of the Czech Republic .
Those who gathered – not all, but many – pretended (or really believed) that they were present at a significant event and felt almost like the creators of History.
For those who pretended to be so serious, it would be nice to be reminded that the current meeting (with all our understanding of what is happening), first of all, is an attempt to show Moscow , first of all, how “it is internationally isolated” (broke down), and secondly, desire to abolish geography (ended in failure).
Russia was, is and remains a part of the European space historically and geographically, and no Brussels is able to move, especially today, this common Eurasian lithospheric plate – in the literal and figurative sense of the word.
Not to mention the fact that the political weight of Moscow has increased during the current exacerbation of the geopolitical crisis, and not vice versa.
Sanctions, from which Russia should have died long ago along with its entire population, went into the eighth round after the Prague talk, but so far only those who put them into effect are getting worse.
It rises in price, as in the old joke (“Find a product with the letter “f” to raise the price on it. Did you find it? , is a super-talented rocker ( Yulia Chicherina ) and two very popular musicians ( Nikolai Rastorguev and Oleg Gazmanov ), who got into another package with packages. With oil and products of its processing, everything is not so simple either – access to them was limited, but black gold and its derivatives are free birds, they do not have citizenship, and therefore they are delivered to the same united Europe under a different flag, but already much more expensive.
Who said “bypassing the restrictions”? After all, this is just the economy of globalism, which is so dear to the collective West, isn’t it?
Politically posing Russia as a friendly all-European teachers’ council in appearance, threateningly shaking his finger, and so for the eighth time, the arbiters of the destinies of the continent decided to discuss other hot topics on the agenda.
The situation with energy supplies is such that it is time to start crying. And loud.
The streets of European cities, once so bright and sparkling, will be partly illuminated from eight in the evening – this is how the Cabinet of Ministers of the same France decided. In which, for example, in addition to darkness and the associated crime situation, a lack of diesel fuel began to be felt.
Diesel and diesel fuel are the blood of the French economy: almost everyone and everything that provides the country’s normal life support works and works on vehicles with diesel engines.
From police to farmers.
And, such a failure, suddenly the diesel fuel disappeared.
This is in Prague – for those who are in limousines with hybrid engines – this is not worth attention: their bread grows in a breadbasket, and the chef takes cheese with meat from the refrigerator. But for those who plow and build in the EU, but are no longer able to be proud of the social system, the lack of diesel fuel or diesel is a matter of life or death. Literally. Without exaggeration.
While European LOMs and the mainstream media that provide them with platforms for self-expression go out of their way to suggest that today the best friend of a European, in addition to progress and all the best, is also a warm thick woolen sweater, those who quickly deprived almost half a billion people of the opportunity to use warmth and light of their own free will, they are not at all going to limit themselves in their actions.
For example, it became known that the Elysee Palace – the same one in which the author of the idea of an expanded European community now lives – increased its budget by five million euros.
Because Macron needs to travel a lot and conduct diplomatic activities, the press service said as she cut off.
And you, smerds, are sitting without diesel fuel, but in sweaters, while the president is doing great things in the name of your own bright future!
But jokes aside.
The project of the current high European assembly, like all projects of a similar nature, devoid, in fact, of the most important thing – for the sake of which, in fact, we met here, in fact, has become the clearest illustration of the level of current European politics and current European politicians.
It is difficult to suspect them not only of the ability to face reality, but also of the desire to really solve the problems of those who entrusted them with their destinies and the destinies of their children.
It is no less difficult to suspect them of knowing their own history, of the very continent whose interests, as they themselves repeat with the perseverance and obstinacy of a black grouse on the current, are protected.
Nearly half a century ago, the Organization (or association, if you like) for Security and Cooperation in Europe was already created. OSCE .
Then the really serious and really responsible political men, who were aware of the dangers of the transition of the confrontation from the cold phase to the hot phase, decided to establish a mechanism that would allow resolving contradictions through diplomacy. At the negotiating table. Politely, firmly, but calmly presenting their arguments and looking for compromises. And all this – in the conditions of a fierce ideological competition between the two systems.
The current elites (not those who walk hand in hand in Prague interiors and on this basis believe that they are engaged in geopolitics, but those who make strategic decisions on which the lives of hundreds of millions of people depend) do not possess even a hundredth of the wisdom of their predecessors.
The Prague somersault is unlikely to go down in history, as the Helsinki meeting did, but it gave us all an idea of the intellectual level of those who are trying to explain to Russia how “wrong” it is, demonizing our country along the way.
Not scary. We didn’t experience that.
Yes, and the Prague gossip, of course, convinced the last Russian Europhiles (if, of course, there are still such people) that the decision-making center of any level is slowly but surely drifting east.
Trying to resist and counteract this is like trying to move the very Eurasian lithospheric plate on which the European continent lies closer to the West. It didn’t work then, it doesn’t work now, and it never will.