Results of the week. "And both, and can be without bread"
A new version of the state’s military doctrine was discussed at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine this week. The discussion turned out to be rather short-lived, since the basic concept of the doctrine of the Ukrainian regime is well-known and, of course, does not need heated discussions by representatives of the regime itself. In a nutshell, the Kiev doctrinal concept is simple: “in any case, we are blaming everything on Russia.”
We were called the enemy and the aggressor, and what we?
In the end, they decided to register in the new military doctrine a clause stating that Russia is an “adversary” and concurrently an “aggressor”. And as a supplement, Ukraine’s refusal of non-aligned status and striving for integration with North Atlantic “friends.”
Well, with the fact that Russia is an “aggressor”, everything is clear ... Is it possible to call Russia somehow differently, if, following the adoption of the new military doctrine by Ukraine, the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation immediately declares another willingness to discuss a gas discount if Russia sends Ukrainian citizens have thousands of tons of humanitarian aid, while accepting hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees on their territory ... A typical aggressor ... And the "aggressor" rescues a Ukrainian citizen from Afghan captivity and takes other Ukrainian citizens out of war-torn Syria airplanes Yes, it is even more than the "aggressor", it is already a real warvar, you know ...
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Vasilyeva quarreled "irreconcilable"
The decisions of the recent Russian courts have forced even the representatives of the “irreconcilable opposition”, who are trying to position themselves as a united front, to converge in absentee quarrels. After a congratulation addressed to Evgenia Vasilyeva, who received a gift in the form of parole, from Mikhail Khodorkovsky, another “irreconcilable” - Garry Kasparov said that the MBH’s move surprised him, and that the MBH’s strategy for addressing the “Russian elites” is well seen - well, something like a signal that "I (MBH) will not leave you either."
Vasilyeva's congratulations from Khodorkovsky are really a signal ... A signal indicating that the so-called irreconcilable opposition is very much reconciled. Oppositionists make it clear that for them it is not fundamentally important who is who: a bribe taker, a bribe giver, “political” or completely apolitical - the main thing is that if there are certain resources from a person (finances, connections, information background) he can direct these resources to promoting "irreconcilable opposition" to the heights of state power. In fact, this desire to repeat the Ukrainian scenario, when all radicals, extremists, criminal elements, oligarchs, mistresses of oligarchs, etc., were declared to be comrades and allies of Western puppets rushing to power, if only they all shouted at different angles about “fighting Yanukovych regime "and" European integration. The result of this we all see for the second year in a row behind the “European shaft” ...
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Monkey with a grenade
During the week, the territories adjacent to the building of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine turned into an arena of real street battles. The reason was the adoption in the first reading of the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of the so-called “changes” to the country's constitution, allegedly leading to decentralization. Of course, no decentralization of the amendment is envisaged, while the usurpation of power by the president is very much envisaged. Radicals boil ...
The culmination of the confrontation between the raging mob and the representatives of the police and the National Guard under was an explosion that eventually took the lives of three NSU soldiers. One of the raging protesters (his name is Igor Gumenyuk) threw an explosive device into the group of representatives of the National Guard under. Gumenyuk was detained after police watched cadres from CCTV cameras and mobile phones of those who were shooting. It is noteworthy that in this case, viewing the video allowed the Ukrainian law enforcement authorities to identify the criminal after a few hours after the incident, but still the staff (of which gigabytes) of the 2 sample of May 2014 of the year still do not allow them to identify the perpetrators of the terrible tragedy in Odessa
And if on the day of the unrest under the walls of the Rada, Interior Minister Avakov directly accused the "freedom fighter" of the Freedman, then after a while President Poroshenko laid all the blame on ... Russia. Should all this be understood as the fact that the agent is a Russian agent? .. Much ... Or, again, as in the well-known poetic work: "The cat threw the kittens, this is ..."
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Inconvenient film and uncomfortable truth
German director Mark Bartalmay made a documentary tape about the conflict in the Donbas and the political crisis that preceded it. The German director, who has lived in Ukraine for over a year and has already presented the film in Berlin and Donetsk, says that the film shows the chronology of the events of the Ukrainian crisis. According to Barthalmay, the war in the southeast is the consequences of Maidan, but not the invasion of Russia. The film is scheduled to be shown in Moscow.
The German director has already managed to feel what it means in the modern world of western “freedom of speech” to make a film that does not fit the norms of the information war against Russia. Everything that these norms (the norms of the United States, which are implanted in the same Germany as the object for imitation) does not fit, is declared "Russian (well, or just Kiselev's) propaganda." CNN and Deutsche Welle are “mouthpieces of truth,” and RT is “propaganda TV.” Voice of America and Radio Liberty are knights in white robes, and Russia Today news agency are horrible Kremlin trolls ...
Bartalmayu in the screening of the film “Ukrainian agony. The hidden war "was refused by leading European distributors, although, as the director himself says, sooner or later the Europeans will still see the tape and realize that they have been led by the nose for a long time saying that" it was Russia that provoked the war in Ukraine. "
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The politicians of the European West are well aware of what is happening in Ukraine, but they cannot do anything, because Obama took them by the throat so that without his approval they could not breathe. The states pulled Europe into their insane adventures in the Middle East, and from there the uncontrolled flow of migrants went, again to Europe. One gets the impression that the purpose of amerikos is to bring chaos in Europe. And they, behind the puddle, will sit out and be in chocolate on the background of the mess and the Islamization of Europe. The EU has already become a vassal of the States.
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The economic routine of Ukraine: from peremoga to peremoga
The Ukrainian authorities in the week reported that since Russia did not take part in the discussion of the restructuring of the Ukrainian debt, "Ukraine will not repay the debt to Russia on favorable terms for the lender." At the same time, Finance Minister Yaresko announced that, they say, Russia had lost the opportunity to be in the same cage with those “civilized” US-European partners who had restructured the “independent” debts (the word is a real sobriety test for the main Ukrainian of the era ...).
Against the background of the fact that Yaresko and Yatsenyuk reported on the restructuring “peremog” (and the Ukrainians will eventually have to pay several times more than what they needed to pay today), the Ministry of Social Policy has already told about the “peremog”. Peremoga after Peremoga ... Not a government, but pure gold! ..
So what is the next government "victory" in Ukraine? It turns out that Ukraine, under the current Cabinet, broke the record ... The unemployment rate in the country only according to official statistics is 11,5% among the entire economically active population and 23% among young people. This is a real record, because there was no such thing since the announcement of Ukraine’s independence (and certainly not in the days of the Ukrainian SSR). It did not take long for the Deputy Minister of Social Policy of Ukraine to declare who was responsible for the record level of unemployment. This (drum roll) ... of course, Russia. It turns out that we are preventing Ukraine from receiving investments from outside.
The conclusion suggests itself: apparently, even the ATO meat grinder stops coping with the plan to reduce the number of Ukrainian unemployed ... But this tool seemed to the government of Yatsenyuk an example of efficiency ...
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The sacred cow and her cake
At the “Territory of Meanings in Klyazma” forum, and later at a meeting with future diplomats at MGIMO, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the era of the domination of the historical West is coming to an end.
But the West is doing everything to ensure that the era of its dominance never ends. And all these attempts are not noticed unless the one for whom the very word “West” is akin to the concept of “the sacred cow” - just pray, worship and admire with every step and every new “cake”. There are even those who follow this sacred cow from behind with their palms replaced, so that the output of the next “economic aid” loaves should not be missed ...
In the meantime, the West is trying to cling to “dominance”, and its sixes, ingratiating themselves, are indulging, Russia is trying to develop a system of multipolarity, and not only political. The next step is the holding of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, according to the results of which the Primorsky Territory concluded agreements with partners from China, South Korea, Singapore and other countries of the macro-region of the planet for a total amount of more than 50 billion rubles. In the course of the WEF, it turned out that the American “friends” had not spared the growing economic partnership between the Russian Federation and the countries of East (Southeast) Asia. For example, Chinese and Russian banks faced difficulties with transactions under Rosneft contracts in the PRC due to the proliferation of US sanctions. It must have been our big black friend who decided to “stick” another speed in the box of “breaking the Russian economy to shreds” ... Well, well ...
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There would be more. I'm worried about the "revival of the tandem" lately. What is it for?
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I will believe in the truthfulness of the words of D. Rogozin, when American astronauts break their legs when trying to jump to the ISS on a trampoline ...
Sea wolves
During the week, an armada of the Ukrainian Navy began training with its allies and partners from the North Atlantic alliance and not only from the alliance. This is about the Sea of Breeze 2015, which started on the Black Sea.
Tricky comments. 2015 sea spray, or what else would scare Russian?
The exercises are attended by Ukrainian, American, Canadian, British, Bulgarian, German, Romanian and even Moldovan (!) Military personnel. In what phase of the exercises are the Moldavian “sailors” taking an active part? - in surface or underwater? .. - the press service of the National Army of Moldova, unfortunately, does not report ... But this press service (and not only it) reports that the ships of the Black Sea are observing the course of the "partner" exercises fleet RF And in the reports of Ukrainian media it is said that Russian ships "are trying to impede the conduct of exercises." Apparently, they are “trying to hinder” the very fact of their being in the Black Sea - apparently, preventing the NATO sailors from relaxing (as they like) in full and frightening the Moldavian “sea wolves” with their remote silhouettes.
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Rating them to help
Global Firepower portal has published a regular ranking of the armies of the world. The rating reportedly takes into account the nuclear potentials of states, the economic security of armies, geographical factors affecting the use of armed forces and other aspects. For each of these points, an army of a state was assigned a certain coefficient, and, based on a general analysis of the coefficients, a rating table was created.
Ratings are an interesting thing. For example, in this ranking, the DPRK army is put on the 36 place, which is 29 places below the ranking position of the South Korean army ... This is despite the fact that the DPRK seems to have a nuclear weapon. The strange position of the North Korean army, if only because a few years ago, Washington declared that the missile defense system in Europe is not directed against Russia, but protects the EU exclusively from Iran and DPRK... Iran, by the way, is in the 23-th place, which is three positions lower than the level of the Thai army and almost at the level of the most interchangeable army in the world - the Ukrainian one (it has the 25 position ... Somewhat surprising is the 11 position of the Israeli army, which is For decades, it does not actually leave the state of full combat readiness, participating in numerous operations. It is not so much the 11 that surprises the place, but the fact that the Israeli army is virtually at the same level as the army of Australia ...
And how should Estonians be offended by such a rating, whose army was called the weakest among the NATO armies (included in the list) - it is on the 108 place from the list 126. This is on the 24 line below the ranking position of the army of Nepal, but, and this Estonians, apparently, should reassure, on the 4 position above the army of the democratised Iraq and on the 14 position above the army of an even more democratised Libya ...
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On what, I wonder, place would put the authors of the ranking army of Germany 1930-s? A small, bloodless First World country with a curtsy army ... and it was the last one, welded with steel discipline and armed with the latest military doctrine of the "blitzkrieg" wiped her legs about all the states of Europe, except perhaps England, which was saved only by the English Channel.
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The Japanese did not come
This week, China celebrated the seventieth anniversary of the victory over Japan, which marked the end of World War II. Before the military parade in Beijing, the leaders of the 49 states met. Vladimir Putin arrived in the capital of the Middle Kingdom last and was met in the most cordial way. Arrived on the parade and the first person in Latin America. China, like Russia, is looking at this region with interest.
The stance of the United States, Japan, and Western European states, whose leaders dared to ignore the celebration, looks strange. However, for such behavior from, for example, Japan, there is historical justification. We remember that Angela Merkel was not at the Victory Parade in Russia.
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But, by the way, here I was pecked as illiterate, when in the topics about aircraft carriers I was talking about the possibility of creating anti-ship ballistic missiles. And the Chinese have done! Are we dumber than them?
Fear has big eyes
Strategic partners Moscow and Beijing frightened Washington again. The likely joint military project of the two states haunts influential American media. What are they afraid of in the Pentagon, Congress and the White House? Creations by the Chinese and Russian aircraft carrier! True, analysts with gloating note that such a project is too tough for the dragon and the bear: the ruble is falling for the Russians, and the entire economy for their strategic brothers, the Chinese.
Harry Kazianis, executive editor of The National Interest and senior researcher at the Center for the National Interest, believes that China will simply not need an expensive joint aircraft carrier.
The fact is that the Chinese have weapons capable of hitting aircraft carriers: DF-21D. These maneuverable warheads placed on the CSS-5 rocket, according to statements by the Chinese military, can hit the target in several directions at once. And the question turns out to be quite simple: why should China invest billions of dollars in joint projects of aircraft carriers with Russia or even in their own when China at the same time undermined the military utility of such a sea platform?
Harry Kazianis is skeptical about the reasoning in the world press about the “projects” of Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin. The author does not believe that China and Russia will jointly create an aircraft carrier. At least in the near future. Both states do have many areas in which they can strengthen cooperation, but aircraft carriers are hardly included in the plans of Moscow and Beijing.
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Well, as an idea from J. Verne, a floating island on 5-10 ha?
Yes, and why the Chinese should buy a terribly outdated aircraft carrier of the Second World War, if the detailed blueprints have long been freely available? Or the Chinese can not read the drawings?
"Since we were great shipbuilders ..."
We have never been great shipbuilders. As Americans have never possessed the best in the world of air force. Russian theorists, yes, ahead - from the time of Peter I, when the theory of stability and the theory of the ship appeared in Russia. Krylov's achievements in ship theory, Alekseev's in hydrodynamics, etc., etc. All is not reduced to a mediocre performance, look at the boats of the Dugong type.
A couple of factories, which are loaded for the most I can not yet, somehow doing something, the bulk - even Soviet equipment, and retirees in the workplace ...
Need something else.
The aircraft carrier Bartini, by the way, is also an idea, not fully appreciated.
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Arctic president
31 August Barack Obama arrived in Alaska for a three-day visit. He became the first American president to visit the Arctic Circle. Taking advantage of the moment, a retired US Army colonel and former FBI security adviser David Hunt gave B.H. Obama some advice on the Arctic confrontation between the Americans and the Russians.
38.000 military, 110 aircraft, 41 ship and 15 submarines. 6.000 soldiers additionally arrived in the north-west of the Murmansk region. New radar, new missile systems on the coastal strip. A fleet of six nuclear-powered icebreakers and at least ten diesel-powered icebreakers. And three more, and even more, atomic icebreakers will appear at Moscow by the end of the decade. The day is not far when the Russians will say: the whole Arctic is Russian, and only Russian! The new cold war with Russia is going on all over the world, the American retiree believes, but it received the most vivid reflection in the Arctic. And the current situation represents an “escalation of threat” for the “national and economic security” of the United States.
In our opinion, there is no need to talk about the freezing of US national security in the Arctic region by the Russians. The Cold War is certainly underway, but its focus is not Alaska, but Ukraine. And the fears of some individuals like David Hunt or, say, Alaska Governor Bill Walker, who is also agitated by the close presence of Russians, stem directly from State Department propaganda. Many officials in the United States, and in Europe as well, now see Putin's "green men" everywhere. Either they occupy Estonia and Finland, then they flicker along the borders of Romania, then Poland will cause a new attack of war with monuments, then to Kiev on tanks will reach. Now we got to Alaska. Putin is everywhere!
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That is why we support Putin’s actions, which are aimed at strengthening our country, and we give a rebuff to the enemies of Russia.
Love Russia, act in the interests of the people of our country, and you will be supported.
So it depends on us how we will live.
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For us, investments in the Arctic have not only a military sense, but, above all, an economic one. In the "north" we have long been built and mastered a lot of things. And it all works and brings economic benefits. Plus warming and prospects for the development of the Northern Sea Route. This will also give an economic return.
And for America it is (so far) some expenses.
Enemy number two
Speaking to California Marine Corps, US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter voiced his own short list of US external enemies. The head of the Pentagon gave the first place to an “ugly phenomenon called IG, with which we must fight and which we will win.” The second largest threat the minister called the policy of Russia for the last year. Carter is ready to impede Putin’s threatening policy: “We must prevent it from the point of view of our national interests, and because we have important allies and partners in this part of the world, and we have important NATO commitments.”
And what is curious: in holding back Russia, Carter at the same time would like to cooperate with her. "We continue to cooperate with Russia ... There are issues on which they cooperate with us, for example, in many significant aspects of the fight against terrorism, on North Korea, Iran and some other issues." The minister also expressed the hope that Putin’s successor, or even Putin himself, would lead Russia into a bright future: “... under Vladimir Putin or some of his successors, the leadership will lead Russia ... not along the path of confrontation with the rest of the world and self-isolation, according to which they are going now, but on the path of closer economic and political integration with the rest of the world. ”
It is not difficult to imagine, let us add, what Ashton sees this “integration” of Russia with the “rest of the world”.
First, a “successor” sits on the Kremlin throne, ready to dance to the tune of Washington.
Secondly, Russia does not encroach on any role in the world, except the role of a raw materials appendage of the West. Remaining as an appendage, it will “restrain” itself.
Thirdly, Russia cancels counter-sanctions and again buys European apples, cheeses and jamons with wagons, because America’s European partners are dissatisfied with losses.
Fourth, Moscow is returning the Crimea and apologizes to Poroshenko for the temporary use of the peninsula. Ideally, it would be nice to pay a square and cash compensation.
Fifth, Putin’s successor reviews the causes and results of the short 2008 war, returns the “occupied territories” and welcomes Georgia’s entry into NATO.
Sixth, applause: Poroshenko and Carter receive the Nobel Peace Prize in half.
Seventh, the name of Putin’s successor: Garry Kasparov. And Mikhail Khodorkovsky will become Prime Minister with him.
This is where full integration will come.
Rosneft is solemnly renamed Yukos, while the tireless Interpol is chasing after Sechin in London and Zurich. Berezovsky is suddenly resurrected in New Zealand ...
Americans even moved Russia in the list of enemies somewhere in third, and even fourth place. Count almost friends. This will be a real geopolitical achievement of the new president of Russia. Not that some kind of annexation of the Crimea!
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In space on a ride
The head of NASA, Charles Bolden, is unhappy with the fact that American astronauts are forced to fly the ISS on Russian missiles. His article was published in the magazine “Wired” under the title “Congress, do not force us to“ fly a car ”with Russia. With love, NASA. ”
Bolden is not satisfied with the fact that the agency had to extend the contract with Roskosmos, since “they cannot currently deliver their astronauts to the ISS.” Americans contract will cost 490 million.
What does this work out? Is Mr. Bolden an adherent of mercantilism? Or even a supporter of the iron curtain? After all, he showed a complete rejection of the liberal global economy!
If Americans can not make iPhones or do not know how to sew pants, they will help the Chinese brothers. If the Americans cannot "independently deliver their astronauts to the ISS USA at the present time," they will have to vote on space roads, stopping the Russians.
This is called the global division of labor.
And we are talking about just something 490 millions of dollars! Bolden would better know something about how much money the White House spends on wars all over the world. According to the Institute of International Studies at Brown University, only for the war in Iraq, the United States spent more than two trillion dollars!
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How the Spaniards frightened the British Russians
London was indignant at the act of Spain, which launched the Russian submarine Novorossiysk to its port of Ceuta (the northern coast of Morocco) to refuel.
Representatives of the British Parliament and military experts accused Madrid of "a clear provocation directed against Gibraltar - overseas territory of Great Britain on the Iberian Peninsula, which is disputed by Spain." According to politicians, the Spaniards allowed Novorossiisk to enter the port, located near the territory of Gibraltar, in order to “intimidate the population of the British enclave.”
Why are there "enclave"! Just think - Russian submarines pop up where they want! But what about the cold war and loyalty to the principles and objectives of NATO? In short, the Spaniards got out of control and became the “fifth column” of the North Atlantic Alliance.
Of course, in Washington they could not remain silent. Since Obama was cold at that time in Alaska, looking for the governor of the Russian invaders in northern areas, the floor was taken by the military expert of the American analytical center Heritage Foundation Luke Coffey. He said: “Over the past eighteen months, NATO has focused on confronting Russian aggression in Ukraine, and here one of the NATO members is actively receiving the advanced Russian warship following the Black Sea. This is crazy, it will cause confusion in Washington. Spain’s actions are unacceptable, given that Madrid does not allow US or NATO ships to anchor off the coast of Spain when they are in Gibraltar. ”
I wonder what will be the answer of Madrid?
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Well, and on the topic ... First, in Europe there really is no unanimity. And secondly, I think this is another bell for NATO (first of all) and the EU, that Spain may withdraw from NATO in the near future. For the shouts from Berlin and Washington are tired of freedom-loving Spaniards. And they, without knowing it, are looking for other allies. Accordingly, why Russia cannot become this ally?
Defend fraternal Romania!
In the British research center Henry Jackson Society believe that the time has come to send troops into Eastern Europe and break the line of the oncoming Putin hordes. Researchers believe that the Russians want to make “manageable chaos” on NATO’s eastern flank. London must confront it. The British should block the possibility of spreading chaos from Ukraine to other states.
Experts believe that London should deploy a contingent of ground forces on a permanent basis in Eastern Europe. British soldiers are obliged to protect the Baltic republics and Romania from Russian “provocations” and “aggression”.
And will Britain do everything? It is strange that the experts did not even mention the military contingents of NATO. And they did not report anything about the superpower of the great and exceptional hegemon, who is always ready to come to the aid of europartners, like Chip or Dale, or both.
However, the Americans do not know anything about Putin’s insidious plans to seize Romania. Putin does not know about them either.
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By the way, even the fighters of Ukraine recognized that the British instructors were the bottoms. That is, the sense of their training - zero! How can soldiers who have no war experience teach something? Is that the British well-known pomposity, no more! But in war, this is of little help.
“Researchers believe that the Russians want to arrange“ controlled chaos ”on the eastern flank of NATO ...” It is also very significant. Our enemies think in their own way and try to predict our behavior based on their logic. That is, what would they do in our place, but we won the hordes of Napoleon and Hitler because we acted on the basis of our logic, which the Saxons never understand. We didn’t trade blankets soaked with cholera (or smallpox, I don’t remember exactly) with the Indians, we didn’t throw bombs on Hiroshima, we didn’t organize genocides around the world ...
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