Or, for example, the excitement around Trump's speech at the UN and the idea of reform of this organization. The first was originally a tautology of the speeches of all previous "leaders of the free world", and the second sank in joyful approval without any detailed discussion or additional proposals.
And, like the cherry on the cake, satellite imagery provided by the Russian Defense Ministry, proving the cooperation of the western "comrades" (which we are not comrades at all) with the ISIL grouping banned in Russia (DAISH, Dzhebhat an-Nusra) - does not matter ). And complete silence. The deathly silence of Western media and politicians, drowning in a heap of political and near-political talk, like the appearance of a “wrinkled mushroom” on the Internet, as he was quickly dubbed on the Internet, Morgan Freeman with his fantastically original statement about the war with Russia.
Unfortunately, we are too accustomed to look for a double bottom, and the wild-capitalism inoculation received by our country during 90's shock therapy often makes us see the purchase / sale of each action, figure or party. And this is partly true. But, alas, everything is simpler than it seems, and worse than you want.
The fact is that since the collapse of the USSR, and, accordingly, the bipolar structure of the world, the pro-Western politicians have totally changed not only all decision-making algorithms, but also the Modus operandi itself, and the thinking itself. By giving the US almost all foreign policy and concern for its own security, which the United States carried out without any losses, since all the threats were mythical, Europe lost not only passionarity, but also the ability to return it. This concerns not only the highest echelons of power, but also the peoples of Europe themselves, especially the western ones.
After the Second World War, the mild dismantling of European independence gained momentum. Old De Gaulle, after his attempt to get out of the suffocating embrace, was thrown to the side of the road stories. And the slow elimination of the high-tech military industrial complex of the US allies was not a special secret. Britain was just beginning to feel nostalgic for the seas and skies, and last week, analysts with "surprise" noticed how the American F-35 just "devoured" the Royal Air Force. But this is so, the nuances. The main thing is that future “chancellors”, prime ministers and “European bureaucrats” grew in this environment.
The collapse of the Union took the last source of motivation for a certain independence from many countries that have ceased to be targets. In a couple of years, by inertia, so to speak, on the “old” brains, the European authorities continued their solemn expansion until the formation of the EU. The bureaucratic apparatus, which was swollen to unimaginable dimensions, soon began to engage in simply self-reproduction, with the imitation of vigorous activity characteristic of this process.
Soon for many European bureaucrats, any crisis really became an opportunity, just like in the tale that creacles were saying recently from TV screens, only with a minus sign. The crisis, migration, economic, military-political, becomes in this model the reason for expanding the staff, budgeting of the enterprise and another way to prove its own indispensability (there is no Stalin for them, really).
In this context, the adoption of a decision, and more often simply a statement about the decision made without its implementation, becomes the result of several factors:
- the degree of influence on publicity (is it worth it to contact the topic if it is not interesting);
- the possible amount of budget funds and the duration of their receipt;
- a guarantee of saving your own post.
The latter directly depends on the fact that these “new” rules are in the trend. As soon as someone shows principle and, God forbid, ideological in defending his opinion, he is subjected to public flogging, like Dominique Strauss-Kahn used to be. The naive Dominic, whom the European Union appointed as head of the IMF in 2007, and in 2011, he decided to turn his back on Washington, after which he was immediately declared a sex machine, in habits of which he would force hotel staff on arrival in the room.
That is why it is impossible to grow in this environment anything other than “European bureaucracy”. Those. Nobody needs to bribe or intimidate, the system is already closed, and it has developed a special thinking. And this concerns not only the EU, NATO, but also practically all Western organizations. The UN, headquartered in New York is no exception, because such thinking in the air is like sarin. After all, the people who are in the system cannot assess the extent of her illness, so all these meaningless sessions, conferences, and so on are extremely important to them.
Cocoon around the system is reliable and debugged sweeps all dissidents away. Even US intervention is sometimes not required, the thinking of pro-Western bureaucrats will work as it should.
Therefore, seemingly at least strange decisions of Western-oriented organizations only confirm the inviolability of a closed system. Drunk Jean-Claude Juncker - the norm. Anders Fogh Rasmussen is a great “warrior” and former NATO secretary general who has traveled a difficult path from the liberal leader and prime minister of Denmark to adviser Pan Poroshenko - all the more. Zitz-chairman of the company is not a hindrance, especially properly "educated." Even the “conflict” of the EU with its participants from Eastern Europe over the reluctance to accept refugees only helped to put together a couple of additional commissions that were not even going to resolve the crisis itself, but only exchanged small legal barbs with the “European officials” of the guilty countries. Everyone is happy ...
However, one should not think that I am singing a song about “decaying” Europe again, no. First, as I indicated this thinking, like sarin. And our bureaucrats, who settled in the UN, PACE and other organizations, will lay bones in order to prove their own importance; they cannot imagine the world without their “horn and hoof” office, even if it is completely useless. However, they simply cannot notice this fact.
Secondly, sometimes it seems that the local authorities, really aiming at the result, who are forced to communicate with their Western comrades, simply encounter people from a different reality. After all, these “aliens” are not aimed at the result, often not because of the “pro-Western” position or the machinations of the United States, but simply because the spring of the budget dries out, and the flickering of their names at the highest level will fade.