Michael McFaul offended
The most discussed ambassador of a foreign state in the Russian Federation today is the US ambassador Mr. McFaul. Even among all the recent American ambassadors Michael McFaul is an absolute favorite in terms of attention to himself and his own activity, despite the fact that he turned up in Moscow quite recently. The names of his predecessors at the post of ambassador to Russia - William Barnes and John Beyrle - today not every Russian who even considers himself interested in political life in the country will remember. But the phrase "Michael McFaul" has become almost a stable idiom, denoting the attempts of a foreign state, one way or another, to influence the internal political situation in the country.
McFaul declares that he is completely shocked by the kind of “black PR” he was staged in Russia. Based on the statements of McFaul himself, one can say that he himself clearly did not expect such a “lively” interest in his modest person. According to the ambassador, he was warned, even before arriving in Moscow, that due to the height of the presidential race, we should expect any attacks from both politicians and the press in their favor. But McFaul was full of determination, and was preparing to strike, with all the American democratic naturalness, at the Russian “impassability and sloppiness”. But on arrival in the Russian Federation, this passion obviously subsided. The ambassador expresses concern that the elections seem to be left behind, and the Russian society still perceives him with excessive bias, and even the Russian media are attacking him on virtually all fronts. It turns out that something in Washington did not take into account ...
I wonder what the American ambassador wanted to see in Russia after he himself repeatedly stated that he was going to Moscow in order to sow the seeds of the American democratic order ... This is after these same seeds have already managed to ascend in Libya, Yemen and continue to ascend in Syria. And what did the ambassador want to hear in his address after too frequent repetitions of the phrases “violation of freedom of speech in Russia”, “non-observance of human rights” ...
Apparently, Michael McFaul is not well acquainted with the Russian classics, in which it is written in black and white that any attempts to impose interests from outside in Russia never took root even today, too, are not able to get accustomed. Well, in the end, we don’t bring jeans with a Coca-Cola to bring in an era of total deficit ... In general, we don’t like excessively active foreign leaders who are trying with all their might to change the established order. The Russian mentality, which, apparently, is unknown to the American ambassador, is simply arranged in such a way that it perceives order, which may not even be quite orderly, but ours will be homegrown. But all attempts to impose order on the part of us are perceived as a restriction of freedom. Some may not like it, but we too live in Russia. Unacceptable, you know, when they try to threaten us with a finger and teach life from abroad.
This situation is quite possible to illustrate at a completely everyday level. Imagine when a not very welcome guest arrives in our apartment, and he also begins to make complaints about the fact that we are not preparing dinner, we are not sitting at the table, we are raising children not like that ... If you are not allowed to drive out such a guest for certain reasons, then You can allow yourself to express everything that we think about him. With McFaul, the situation is similar. As one well-known modern politician said: “Let him teach his wife to cook soup…”
In such a situation, many experts immediately rushed to discuss why a relationship with the newly-formed American ambassador is being formed or already formed in Russia. Someone began to declare that it was nothing more than “Putin’s machinations” in order to continue to escalate the unhealthy situation around the relationship with our eternal friend and the most important partner - the United States. Someone saw in the attacks on the ambassador the natural anti-Americanism of Russian society, which is artificially fueled by journalists and politicians. Russian political scientist Mr. Radzikhovsky even saw in a peculiar rejection of the aspirations of Michael McFaul that Russia sees itself as the Third Rome, and at the same time cannot catch up with the West, and therefore, they say, speak out unflatteringly about any representative of the West in general and the United States in particular . But if this is so, then why no special complaints are made to the ambassadors of other Western states. Nothing that is not expressed, but simply the overwhelming majority of Russians, these people do not know. Why is the Russian press not so actively commenting on the work of the German ambassador Ulrich Brandenburg or the ambassador of France Jean de Gliniasty? For some reason, the previous American ambassador, Mr Beyrle, in Russia was not "nightmare."
Maybe it’s not at all how Moscow and Russia feel themselves like Rome, but what ambassadors themselves are doing in the territory of the Russian Federation. After all, the primary task of any ambassador is to represent and protect the interests of the state that sent him to another country, and not to promote the will of one state on the territory of another, and to support certain public structures with the expectation of active destabilization in the country. But Mr. McFaul, apparently, simply did not fully read his direct duties well, or in Washington they forget about what the embassy mission really is.
Obviously, the diplomatic mission of any state, in whatever relations it has with Russia, should begin with an expression of readiness to cooperate with state authorities, and not with those persons whom we would like to see in the state leadership to certain forces. And if for some reason cooperation with the current government is impossible, then the diplomatic mission closes, as they say, until better times. And in the situation with Ambassador McFaul, who was traveling to Russia to “restrain” and “destroy” ordinary diplomatic symbols were somehow too distorted.
McFaul, who is puzzled by the attacks on the Russian press, in order to understand the situation should simply present himself, how would the American press and the authorities react to the Russian ambassador, who would arrive in the United States and promise active support to demonstrators on Wall Street to change publicly political regime in the States. Here it is - a simple mirror, Mr. American Ambassador. And you do not need to spoil your nerves and become depressed, you just need to do the work that falls within the scope of your embassy duties.
McFaul declares that he is completely shocked by the kind of “black PR” he was staged in Russia. Based on the statements of McFaul himself, one can say that he himself clearly did not expect such a “lively” interest in his modest person. According to the ambassador, he was warned, even before arriving in Moscow, that due to the height of the presidential race, we should expect any attacks from both politicians and the press in their favor. But McFaul was full of determination, and was preparing to strike, with all the American democratic naturalness, at the Russian “impassability and sloppiness”. But on arrival in the Russian Federation, this passion obviously subsided. The ambassador expresses concern that the elections seem to be left behind, and the Russian society still perceives him with excessive bias, and even the Russian media are attacking him on virtually all fronts. It turns out that something in Washington did not take into account ...
I wonder what the American ambassador wanted to see in Russia after he himself repeatedly stated that he was going to Moscow in order to sow the seeds of the American democratic order ... This is after these same seeds have already managed to ascend in Libya, Yemen and continue to ascend in Syria. And what did the ambassador want to hear in his address after too frequent repetitions of the phrases “violation of freedom of speech in Russia”, “non-observance of human rights” ...
Apparently, Michael McFaul is not well acquainted with the Russian classics, in which it is written in black and white that any attempts to impose interests from outside in Russia never took root even today, too, are not able to get accustomed. Well, in the end, we don’t bring jeans with a Coca-Cola to bring in an era of total deficit ... In general, we don’t like excessively active foreign leaders who are trying with all their might to change the established order. The Russian mentality, which, apparently, is unknown to the American ambassador, is simply arranged in such a way that it perceives order, which may not even be quite orderly, but ours will be homegrown. But all attempts to impose order on the part of us are perceived as a restriction of freedom. Some may not like it, but we too live in Russia. Unacceptable, you know, when they try to threaten us with a finger and teach life from abroad.
This situation is quite possible to illustrate at a completely everyday level. Imagine when a not very welcome guest arrives in our apartment, and he also begins to make complaints about the fact that we are not preparing dinner, we are not sitting at the table, we are raising children not like that ... If you are not allowed to drive out such a guest for certain reasons, then You can allow yourself to express everything that we think about him. With McFaul, the situation is similar. As one well-known modern politician said: “Let him teach his wife to cook soup…”
In such a situation, many experts immediately rushed to discuss why a relationship with the newly-formed American ambassador is being formed or already formed in Russia. Someone began to declare that it was nothing more than “Putin’s machinations” in order to continue to escalate the unhealthy situation around the relationship with our eternal friend and the most important partner - the United States. Someone saw in the attacks on the ambassador the natural anti-Americanism of Russian society, which is artificially fueled by journalists and politicians. Russian political scientist Mr. Radzikhovsky even saw in a peculiar rejection of the aspirations of Michael McFaul that Russia sees itself as the Third Rome, and at the same time cannot catch up with the West, and therefore, they say, speak out unflatteringly about any representative of the West in general and the United States in particular . But if this is so, then why no special complaints are made to the ambassadors of other Western states. Nothing that is not expressed, but simply the overwhelming majority of Russians, these people do not know. Why is the Russian press not so actively commenting on the work of the German ambassador Ulrich Brandenburg or the ambassador of France Jean de Gliniasty? For some reason, the previous American ambassador, Mr Beyrle, in Russia was not "nightmare."
Maybe it’s not at all how Moscow and Russia feel themselves like Rome, but what ambassadors themselves are doing in the territory of the Russian Federation. After all, the primary task of any ambassador is to represent and protect the interests of the state that sent him to another country, and not to promote the will of one state on the territory of another, and to support certain public structures with the expectation of active destabilization in the country. But Mr. McFaul, apparently, simply did not fully read his direct duties well, or in Washington they forget about what the embassy mission really is.
Obviously, the diplomatic mission of any state, in whatever relations it has with Russia, should begin with an expression of readiness to cooperate with state authorities, and not with those persons whom we would like to see in the state leadership to certain forces. And if for some reason cooperation with the current government is impossible, then the diplomatic mission closes, as they say, until better times. And in the situation with Ambassador McFaul, who was traveling to Russia to “restrain” and “destroy” ordinary diplomatic symbols were somehow too distorted.
McFaul, who is puzzled by the attacks on the Russian press, in order to understand the situation should simply present himself, how would the American press and the authorities react to the Russian ambassador, who would arrive in the United States and promise active support to demonstrators on Wall Street to change publicly political regime in the States. Here it is - a simple mirror, Mr. American Ambassador. And you do not need to spoil your nerves and become depressed, you just need to do the work that falls within the scope of your embassy duties.
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