We live in an amazing, dangerous and very interesting time. In fact - at the turn of the eras. It would seem that the 20th century, with its world wars and the largest ideological and geopolitical confrontation, forced all progressive mankind to develop universal rules for international relations. They were based on mutual respect for interests and the desire to engage in dialogue even at a time of insurmountable contradictions. This is because the alternative to this order was chaos, in which the threat of mutual annihilation faced the entire population of our planet.
Thirty years after the Soviet Union, having broken up, removed the burden of the second pole in world geopolitics, we observe the dismantling of the entire legacy of international diplomacy in the second half of the 20th century. One of the symptoms of the redistribution of spheres of influence is the so-called visa wars unleashed by the United States as a state that arbitrarily declared itself the only global hegemon.
Only in the last six months, the refusal to issue visas has disrupted the work of the Russian diplomatic delegation at the UN General Assembly, then the delegation of the Federal Treasury, which was supposed to take part in the conference of the International Institute for the Regulation of the Audit Profession, and finally refused to enter Oleg Sergeyevich Malginov, director of the Foreign Ministry’s department for work with compatriots abroad.
No, of course, I understand that American diplomacy is relatively young and cannot compare with ours. When, in 838, the first Russian embassy arrived in Constantinople, and a year later, in Ingelheim, to Louis the Pious, even before the colonization of North America, there remained seven whole centuries. But can this justify such diplomatic nihilism? If you do not want to let diplomats come to you, your will. Let's move the UN headquarters somewhere in Serpukhov. We have no such problems with hospitality.
I understand that it’s hard for Americans now. They accidentally chose the wrong person for president, and he did not have time to take office, as the entire establishment began to accuse Russia and Trump of conspiring to seize power in the United States - not otherwise.
The frightened Donald began indiscriminately to sign all the sanction documents, since he does not smile at all in Russian history with a mole. Congress, even after it turned out that there was no conspiracy, and “interference” is Facebook posts, continues to issue formidable acts with a list of new restrictions like the DASKA Act and DETER Act.
Against this background, all of Trump's peace-loving rhetoric is not worth a penny. I would honestly say: "I will make America great again at the expense of all other states." All the same, nothing remained of diplomacy. Well, perhaps the streamlined formulations by which the administration of the 45th president covers up his geopolitical robbery. By the way, the photographs on Trump's Twitter, where he took photos of his 73-year-old head to a young muscular body, lack only a scream: This is Sparta !!!
I sincerely hope that Western European and American diplomacy will survive their deaf-mute period and it will do without serious consequences. Sooner or later, diplomats in countries that we, by diplomatic tradition, call partners will realize that dialogue should be maintained in any conditions. The law of hospitality did not appear out of the blue: after all, while we are talking, there is a chance of maintaining peace and good neighborliness. And this is much more important than personal ambitions and wounded national pride.
The author’s point of view may not coincide with the position of the publisher.