Yesterday and today the media are actively discussing Secretary of State Carrey's visit to Russia and his talks with Lavrov and Putin. As always, a lot of reasoning, conjectures and declarations. From a historic victory in the opinion of the patriots to the traditional #Putinsleal in the lips of the liberals. Some argue that the historic victory of Russia is already in the fact that for the first time in two years, Carrey deigned to come, which means he caved in. Others just as vehemently argue that the United States once again strictly indicated, pressured and threatened. The fantasies of some authors are only to be envied. From Carrie's wish to Poroshenko to think before shooting, it is concluded that Carrie called Poroshenko an idiot. And from an abstractly hypothetical promise to lift sanctions in an indefinite future, the conclusion is that the United States spat on its satellites in Ukraine and the Baltic states for the sake of relations with Russia. There is a lot of speculation about a US-proposed bargain like Syria (or Iran) in exchange for Ukraine. And only a few of the most balanced commentators note that, apparently, the negotiations ended in nothing.

With all this, almost no one gives the most obvious assessment of the negotiations, which is directly indicated by some scraps of available information. Lavrov's arrival at the talks at the wheel of Pobeda was noted by everyone, but no one went further than mentioning trolling of an outrageous level. They greeted with laughter gifts in the form of tomatoes, potatoes and T-shirts in exchange for a Russian media quote book and a briefcase, but again they did not notice the obvious. Neither did they notice Putin's key phrase, leaked from the talks, that Russia cannot discuss the terms of lifting sanctions, since it did not introduce them. There is no clear understanding of why, after the official part of the talks, Putin proposed an informal meeting in a larger format. If you put everything together and evaluate, then the picture is completely different from what the vast majority of authors saw it.

Let's step aside from high politics for a moment and just imagine the situation of an important commercial negotiation between two firms. One partner (from a company that he considers the largest and strongest on the market) prepared for the discussion, developed a position, and came up with a bunch of arguments in her favor. He put himself in the place of his opponent and came up with an argument for him, as well as his own counterarguments to it. And now, fully armed, he arrives at the epic battle, and instead of an equally serious and thoughtful opponent, he meets a cheerful character who literally shows with his whole appearance “well, fuck them, these negotiations, let me tell you better what kind of fish I recently caught. Also, look what a pumpkin my wife recently grew in the garden. The visiting partner, who has a multi-million dollar contract on fire, listens to this nonsense in complete stunnedness. Then he begins to think that his opponent is just playing for time while the most important negotiator builds his line of behavior. But now the most important one joins the meeting and even begins to listen to the visitor with all his arguments. And after listening, suddenly, instead of opposing and breaking through better conditions for himself, he declares. “No, this is not good, but I’m too lazy to waste time discussing, you yourself somehow think about what to change so that everything suits us. In the meantime, God bless them with negotiations, we're tired, let's go chat better in an informal setting. Let's drink some wine or tea." Doesn't it look like complete bullshit? But that's pretty much what happened yesterday.

We have been accustomed to the fact that our main partners and opponents live in the West since ancient, still imperial pre-Soviet times. We could feel weaker or stronger, we could look for friends among them or be at enmity. Could trade or fight. But for several centuries, our entire policy revolved precisely around relations with the countries of Europe, and later the United States. All our policy in other parts of the world, when it happened, still served only to strengthen our own positions in constant disputes with the West. Never during these centuries have we stopped thinking that Russia is Europe, and our entire policy is a struggle for a worthy place in this very Europe. Even in those days when Russia was called the gendarme of Europe, and even Britain did not dare to argue with it. Even in the days of the USSR, when the country had dozens of allied or friendly states on all continents, it was still a struggle for leadership with the United States and Western Europe. Dozens of generations of Russian politicians and oppositionists grew up on this psychology. The confrontation between Slavophilism and Russophobia in our politics and culture has always occupied a central place.

And suddenly, for the first time in centuries, everything changed. It did not change suddenly, but so quickly that no one had time to notice it. But there were signals. Russia has long tried to warn both Europe and the United States that it is necessary to conduct business with us honestly and openly, it will not work out differently. But no one took these warnings seriously. I'm pretty sure that Merkel's words about Putin's loss of reality about a year ago were directly related to the warning that Russia could simply spit on Europe and its plans to integrate with it. They didn't listen, they didn't take it seriously. Merkel’s sharp tone in Moscow on May 10, which almost openly broke through irritation, which is in principle unacceptable for a politician of such a rank, is the best indicator of who ended up on better terms with reality and who got lost in his own illusions.

Strange as it may seem at first glance, a paradoxical situation suddenly arose. Russia, according to the West, languishing under the burden of sanctions, suddenly had neither serious problems nor important tasks that it must solve in relation to Europe or the United States. There is no current agenda. And hence the amazing feeling of inner freedom, which instantly caused panic among all our “partners”. From Western politicians to domestic domestic Russophobes. This panic is not even particularly tried to cover up with something, it comes through from every speech or text. What is here, what is there. Indeed, unlike Russia, the West has an oversaturated current agenda. And not a single problem, in principle, can be solved without Russia.

Ukraine, gradually plunging deeper into chaos, has hung like a strong burden on Europe and the United States. Both morally and materially. Russia has no urgent tasks there, freezing the conflict in Donbas plays into our hands. However, the intensification of confrontation will not hurt much, it will only push Kyiv into the abyss faster. It is enough for Russia to simply do nothing and wait for the complete collapse of Western policy in this country.

Approximately the same picture in Syria. Everything is bad there, but viscous. There are no quick fixes and there cannot be. ISIS, for all its assistance, is not powerful enough to destroy the Assad regime, and time is working against both it and its sponsors. Even today, the idiotic US policy in the Middle East is pushing the same, seemingly already completely conquered, Iraq towards Russia.

The situation with Iran is even clearer. After all the years of unprecedented pressure on it, Iran has withstood and is closer than ever to a diplomatic victory over the US over its nuclear program. The renewal of the contract for the supply of the S-300 only emphasizes the results of many years of confrontation.

And the situation in Europe is quite interesting. For so many years, everyone was shouting in unison both here and there that the most important task for the United States is to tear Europe away from Russia, that the latter felt like an enviable bride with a rich dowry. And the screamers themselves, both here and there, endlessly believed that this was the case. And the United States, having turned on all its power resources in recent years, literally raped the whole of Europe, forcing them to take an exclusively pro-American position, even to the detriment of itself. And suddenly it turns out that Russia doesn't give a damn about it. Europe feels robbed and fooled. The United States, having already prepared to fight with Russia for Europe until the latter is completely disintegrated, suddenly realizes that they almost killed their only ally with their own hands. All out.

In general, the situation is such that the United States, having scattered a bunch of problems in different parts of the world, has become bogged down in all of them without clear prospects for a successful way out of the situation. At least without the help of Russia. And the clock is already actively ticking, measuring the time until the start of uncontrolled processes of the collapse of the overseas empire. And resources are running out.

And Russia suddenly, quite unexpectedly, finds itself in a position where "Europe will wait until the Russian Tsar is fishing." Unusual, but invigorating. For a long time there were no such times.

Of course, in such a situation, the merit is far from Russia alone. China has contributed to it no less, if not more. And most likely he is not alone.

However, this is exactly the situation. Yesterday, neither Lavrov nor Putin needed anything from Carrie. The person wanted to come to talk, for God's sake. Meet, greet, eat, drink. We are truly open to everyone. But this does not mean that we will continue, as everyone is used to, to solve other people's problems at our own expense.

Non-children's note

One day I was walking up the stairs to meet with a group of linguistic students. And then a bug crawled up to me. The aunt who slowed me down introduced herself to me as the head of an English department like a university, like in the city center. she wasn't wearing it, but I took her word for it. Beside her loomed "white nigga", boy with two bags. As my aunt explained to me, she “now she’s on her way to the post office, and this guy, a language student, helps her deliver the packages”. The aunt also added that "this kid needs help with the offset". I was surprised to myself at such a formulation of the question, but did not answer her, and only said that "I'll be here for another hour".

Half an hour later this "nigra" ran into the audience. I, as if nothing had happened, offered him a ticket and half an hour to prepare for an oral answer. These half an hour was not enough for him, which he told me without complexes. To which I replied that I would leave then. And he had to answer me. And when he answered the awesome questions, then "LDPR" turned out to be purely "liberal party", and the powers of the next prezik will have to be limited to four years old ...

And in this regard, I invited him to come again. To which the student tried to remind me that the head of the department was hinting about him. And to this I calmly replied that "Negro problems do not concern the sheriff". The student was embarrassed, taken aback and answered: “Ah, well…”

And here's the full anecdote:

Leaflet-appeal of the administration of the beer bar in the toilet:
“Please do not clog the toilet. The plumber was tired of cleaning!”
Just below, in different inks:
"The problems of the Negro Sheriff do not care!"

Yesterday and today the media are actively discussing Secretary of State Carrey's visit to Russia and his talks with Lavrov and Putin. As always, a lot of reasoning, conjectures and declarations. From a historic victory in the opinion of the patriots to the traditional #Putinsleal in the lips of the liberals. Some argue that the historic victory of Russia is already in the fact that for the first time in two years, Carrey deigned to come, which means he caved in. Others just as vehemently argue that the United States once again strictly indicated, pressured and threatened. The fantasies of some authors are only to be envied. From Carrie's wish to Poroshenko to think before shooting, it is concluded that Carrie called Poroshenko an idiot. And from an abstractly hypothetical promise to lift sanctions in an indefinite future, the conclusion is that the United States spat on its satellites in Ukraine and the Baltic states for the sake of relations with Russia. There is a lot of speculation about a US-proposed bargain like Syria (or Iran) in exchange for Ukraine. And only a few of the most balanced commentators note that, apparently, the negotiations ended in nothing.

With all this, almost no one gives the most obvious assessment of the negotiations, which is directly indicated by some scraps of available information. Lavrov's arrival at the talks at the wheel of Pobeda was noted by everyone, but no one went further than mentioning trolling of an outrageous level. They greeted with laughter gifts in the form of tomatoes, potatoes and T-shirts in exchange for a Russian media quote book and a briefcase, but again they did not notice the obvious. Neither did they notice Putin's key phrase, leaked from the talks, that Russia cannot discuss the terms of lifting sanctions, since it did not introduce them. There is no clear understanding of why, after the official part of the talks, Putin proposed an informal meeting in a larger format. If you put everything together and evaluate, then the picture is completely different from what the vast majority of authors saw it.

Let's step aside from high politics for a moment and just imagine the situation of an important commercial negotiation between two firms. One partner (from a company that he considers the largest and strongest on the market) prepared for the discussion, developed a position, and came up with a bunch of arguments in her favor. He put himself in the place of his opponent and came up with an argument for him, as well as his own counterarguments to it. And now, fully armed, he arrives at the epic battle, and instead of an equally serious and thoughtful opponent, he meets a cheerful character who literally shows with his whole appearance “well, fuck them, these negotiations, let me tell you better what kind of fish I recently caught. Also, look what a pumpkin my wife recently grew in the garden. The visiting partner, who has a multi-million dollar contract on fire, listens to this nonsense in complete stunnedness. Then he begins to think that his opponent is just playing for time while the most important negotiator builds his line of behavior. But now the most important one joins the meeting and even begins to listen to the visitor with all his arguments. And after listening, suddenly, instead of opposing and breaking through better conditions for himself, he declares. “No, this is not good, but I’m too lazy to waste time discussing, you yourself somehow think about what to change so that everything suits us. In the meantime, God bless them with negotiations, we're tired, let's go chat better in an informal setting. Let's drink some wine or tea." Doesn't it look like complete bullshit? But that's pretty much what happened yesterday.

We have been accustomed to the fact that our main partners and opponents live in the West since ancient, still imperial pre-Soviet times. We could feel weaker or stronger, we could look for friends among them or be at enmity. Could trade or fight. But for several centuries, our entire policy revolved precisely around relations with the countries of Europe, and later the United States. All our policy in other parts of the world, when it happened, still served only to strengthen our own positions in constant disputes with the West. Never during these centuries have we stopped thinking that Russia is Europe, and our entire policy is a struggle for a worthy place in this very Europe. Even in those days when Russia was called the gendarme of Europe, and even Britain did not dare to argue with it. Even in the days of the USSR, when the country had dozens of allied or friendly states on all continents, it was still a struggle for leadership with the United States and Western Europe. Dozens of generations of Russian politicians and oppositionists grew up on this psychology. The confrontation between Slavophilism and Russophobia in our politics and culture has always occupied a central place.

And suddenly, for the first time in centuries, everything changed. It did not change suddenly, but so quickly that no one had time to notice it. But there were signals. Russia has long tried to warn both Europe and the United States that it is necessary to conduct business with us honestly and openly, it will not work out differently. But no one took these warnings seriously. I'm pretty sure that Merkel's words about Putin's loss of reality about a year ago were directly related to the warning that Russia could simply spit on Europe and its plans to integrate with it. They didn't listen, they didn't take it seriously. Merkel’s sharp tone in Moscow on May 10, which almost openly broke through irritation, which is in principle unacceptable for a politician of such a rank, is the best indicator of who ended up on better terms with reality and who got lost in his own illusions.

Strange as it may seem at first glance, a paradoxical situation suddenly arose. Russia, according to the West, languishing under the burden of sanctions, suddenly had neither serious problems nor important tasks that it must solve in relation to Europe or the United States. There is no current agenda. And hence the amazing feeling of inner freedom, which instantly caused panic among all our “partners”. From Western politicians to domestic domestic Russophobes. This panic is not even particularly tried to cover up with something, it comes through from every speech or text. What is here, what is there. Indeed, unlike Russia, the West has an oversaturated current agenda. And not a single problem, in principle, can be solved without Russia.

Ukraine, gradually plunging deeper into chaos, has hung like a strong burden on Europe and the United States. Both morally and materially. Russia has no urgent tasks there, freezing the conflict in Donbas plays into our hands. However, the intensification of confrontation will not hurt much, it will only push Kyiv into the abyss faster. It is enough for Russia to simply do nothing and wait for the complete collapse of Western policy in this country.

Approximately the same picture in Syria. Everything is bad there, but viscous. There are no quick fixes and there cannot be. ISIS, for all its assistance, is not powerful enough to destroy the Assad regime, and time is working against both it and its sponsors. Even today, the idiotic US policy in the Middle East is pushing the same, seemingly already completely conquered, Iraq towards Russia.

The situation with Iran is even clearer. After all the years of unprecedented pressure on it, Iran has withstood and is closer than ever to a diplomatic victory over the US over its nuclear program. The renewal of the contract for the supply of the S-300 only emphasizes the results of many years of confrontation.

And the situation in Europe is quite interesting. For so many years, everyone was shouting in unison both here and there that the most important task for the United States is to tear Europe away from Russia, that the latter felt like an enviable bride with a rich dowry. And the screamers themselves, both here and there, endlessly believed that this was the case. And the United States, having turned on all its power resources in recent years, literally raped the whole of Europe, forcing them to take an exclusively pro-American position, even to the detriment of itself. And suddenly it turns out that Russia doesn't give a damn about it. Europe feels robbed and fooled. The United States, having already prepared to fight with Russia for Europe until the latter is completely disintegrated, suddenly realizes that they almost killed their only ally with their own hands. All out.

In general, the situation is such that the United States, having scattered a bunch of problems in different parts of the world, has become bogged down in all of them without clear prospects for a successful way out of the situation. At least without the help of Russia. And the clock is already actively ticking, measuring the time until the start of uncontrolled processes of the collapse of the overseas empire. And resources are running out.

And Russia suddenly, quite unexpectedly, finds itself in a position where "Europe will wait until the Russian Tsar is fishing." Unusual, but invigorating. For a long time there were no such times.

Of course, in such a situation, the merit is far from Russia alone. China has contributed to it no less, if not more. And most likely he is not alone.

However, this is exactly the situation. Yesterday, neither Lavrov nor Putin needed anything from Carrie. The person wanted to come to talk, for God's sake. Meet, greet, eat, drink. We are truly open to everyone. But this does not mean that we will continue, as everyone is used to, to solve other people's problems at our own expense.

Yesterday and today the media are actively discussing Secretary of State Carrey's visit to Russia and his talks with Lavrov and Putin. As always, a lot of reasoning, conjectures and declarations. From a historic victory in the opinion of the patriots to the traditional #Putinsleal in the lips of the liberals. Some argue that the historic victory of Russia is already in the fact that for the first time in two years, Carrey deigned to come, which means he caved in. Others just as vehemently argue that the United States once again strictly indicated, pressured and threatened. The fantasies of some authors are only to be envied. From Carrie's wish to Poroshenko to think before shooting, it is concluded that Carrie called Poroshenko an idiot. And from an abstractly hypothetical promise to lift sanctions in an indefinite future, the conclusion is that the United States spat on its satellites in Ukraine and the Baltic states for the sake of relations with Russia. There is a lot of speculation about a US-proposed bargain like Syria (or Iran) in exchange for Ukraine. And only a few of the most balanced commentators note that, apparently, the negotiations ended in nothing.

With all this, almost no one gives the most obvious assessment of the negotiations, which is directly indicated by some scraps of available information. Lavrov's arrival at the talks at the wheel of Pobeda was noted by everyone, but no one went further than mentioning trolling of an outrageous level. They greeted with laughter gifts in the form of tomatoes, potatoes and T-shirts in exchange for a Russian media quote book and a briefcase, but again they did not notice the obvious. Neither did they notice Putin's key phrase, leaked from the talks, that Russia cannot discuss the terms of lifting sanctions, since it did not introduce them. There is no clear understanding of why, after the official part of the talks, Putin proposed an informal meeting in a larger format. If you put everything together and evaluate, then the picture is completely different from what the vast majority of authors saw it.

Let's step aside from high politics for a moment and just imagine the situation of an important commercial negotiation between two firms. One partner (from a company that he considers the largest and strongest on the market) prepared for the discussion, developed a position, and came up with a bunch of arguments in her favor. He put himself in the place of his opponent and came up with an argument for him, as well as his own counterarguments to it. And now, fully armed, he arrives at the epic battle, and instead of an equally serious and thoughtful opponent, he meets a cheerful character who literally shows with his whole appearance “well, fuck them, these negotiations, let me tell you better what kind of fish I recently caught. Also, look what a pumpkin my wife recently grew in the garden. The visiting partner, who has a multi-million dollar contract on fire, listens to this nonsense in complete stunnedness. Then he begins to think that his opponent is just playing for time while the most important negotiator builds his line of behavior. But now the most important one joins the meeting and even begins to listen to the visitor with all his arguments. And after listening, suddenly, instead of opposing and breaking through better conditions for himself, he declares. “No, this is not good, but I’m too lazy to waste time discussing, you yourself somehow think about what to change so that everything suits us. In the meantime, God bless them with negotiations, we're tired, let's go chat better in an informal setting. Let's drink some wine or tea." Doesn't it look like complete bullshit? But that's pretty much what happened yesterday.

We have been accustomed to the fact that our main partners and opponents live in the West since ancient, still imperial pre-Soviet times. We could feel weaker or stronger, we could look for friends among them or be at enmity. Could trade or fight. But for several centuries, our entire policy revolved precisely around relations with the countries of Europe, and later the United States. All our policy in other parts of the world, when it happened, still served only to strengthen our own positions in constant disputes with the West. Never during these centuries have we stopped thinking that Russia is Europe, and our entire policy is a struggle for a worthy place in this very Europe. Even in those days when Russia was called the gendarme of Europe, and even Britain did not dare to argue with it. Even in the days of the USSR, when the country had dozens of allied or friendly states on all continents, it was still a struggle for leadership with the United States and Western Europe. Dozens of generations of Russian politicians and oppositionists grew up on this psychology. The confrontation between Slavophilism and Russophobia in our politics and culture has always occupied a central place.

And suddenly, for the first time in centuries, everything changed. It did not change suddenly, but so quickly that no one had time to notice it. But there were signals. Russia has long tried to warn both Europe and the United States that it is necessary to conduct business with us honestly and openly, it will not work out differently. But no one took these warnings seriously. I'm pretty sure that Merkel's words about Putin's loss of reality about a year ago were directly related to the warning that Russia could simply spit on Europe and its plans to integrate with it. They didn't listen, they didn't take it seriously. Merkel’s sharp tone in Moscow on May 10, which almost openly broke through irritation, which is in principle unacceptable for a politician of such a rank, is the best indicator of who ended up on better terms with reality and who got lost in his own illusions.

Strange as it may seem at first glance, a paradoxical situation suddenly arose. Russia, according to the West, languishing under the burden of sanctions, suddenly had neither serious problems nor important tasks that it must solve in relation to Europe or the United States. There is no current agenda. And hence the amazing feeling of inner freedom, which instantly caused panic among all our “partners”. From Western politicians to domestic domestic Russophobes. This panic is not even particularly tried to cover up with something, it comes through from every speech or text. What is here, what is there. Indeed, unlike Russia, the West has an oversaturated current agenda. And not a single problem, in principle, can be solved without Russia.

Ukraine, gradually plunging deeper into chaos, has hung like a strong burden on Europe and the United States. Both morally and materially. Russia has no urgent tasks there, freezing the conflict in Donbas plays into our hands. However, the intensification of confrontation will not hurt much, it will only push Kyiv into the abyss faster. It is enough for Russia to simply do nothing and wait for the complete collapse of Western policy in this country.

Approximately the same picture in Syria. Everything is bad there, but viscous. There are no quick fixes and there cannot be. ISIS, for all its assistance, is not powerful enough to destroy the Assad regime, and time is working against both it and its sponsors. Even today, the idiotic US policy in the Middle East is pushing the same, seemingly already completely conquered, Iraq towards Russia.

The situation with Iran is even clearer. After all the years of unprecedented pressure on it, Iran has withstood and is closer than ever to a diplomatic victory over the US over its nuclear program. The renewal of the contract for the supply of the S-300 only emphasizes the results of many years of confrontation.

And the situation in Europe is quite interesting. For so many years, everyone was shouting in unison both here and there that the most important task for the United States is to tear Europe away from Russia, that the latter felt like an enviable bride with a rich dowry. And the screamers themselves, both here and there, endlessly believed that this was the case. And the United States, having turned on all its power resources in recent years, literally raped the whole of Europe, forcing them to take an exclusively pro-American position, even to the detriment of itself. And suddenly it turns out that Russia doesn't give a damn about it. Europe feels robbed and fooled. The United States, having already prepared to fight with Russia for Europe until the latter is completely disintegrated, suddenly realizes that they almost killed their only ally with their own hands. All out.

In general, the situation is such that the United States, having scattered a bunch of problems in different parts of the world, has become bogged down in all of them without clear prospects for a successful way out of the situation. At least without the help of Russia. And the clock is already actively ticking, measuring the time until the start of uncontrolled processes of the collapse of the overseas empire. And resources are running out.

And Russia suddenly, quite unexpectedly, finds itself in a position where "Europe will wait until the Russian Tsar is fishing." Unusual, but invigorating. For a long time there were no such times.

Of course, in such a situation, the merit is far from Russia alone. China has contributed to it no less, if not more. And most likely he is not alone.

However, this is exactly the situation. Yesterday, neither Lavrov nor Putin needed anything from Carrie. The person wanted to come to talk, for God's sake. Meet, greet, eat, drink. We are truly open to everyone. But this does not mean that we will continue, as everyone is used to, to solve other people's problems at our own expense.