Vladimir Putin addressed countries that were allies of the USSR in the fight against Nazism. He called for using the experience gained in that war to combat current threats. This appeal at first glance seems like a strange, lonely voice in the desert: in a situation where everyone fenced off each other, when separate blazing foci of the epidemic remained from united Europe, each survives for himself and everyone survives as he can - what kind of unity is there? What war, against whom to turn bayonets and warheads? But this is only at first glance.
You must admit that in recent years a premonition of great shocks has been in the air. In 2020, the Western world entered with an overheated economy, with a clear crisis of overproduction, the unresolved (and unresolved) refugee problem, the growing confrontation between the United States and China, the oil wars and the blessed Greta Tunberg, who calls something apocalyptic, almost like Tolstoy in "Walking through the agony" ("St. Petersburg to be empty!"). Typically, such states are resolved by war - and we waited for war in the usual sense for us, simply because we could not imagine otherwise. Although they did not understand how it is to fight at full strength when so many countries have a nuclear button.
And she came: a war without military operations, without armies and with very blurry fronts. The catastrophe that replaced us with the world carnage: with corpses, curfew, empty streets and the ruins of the economy. Perhaps, in this way, history will allow us to pay off from real hostilities, from shooting and missiles. We will release the steam, bury the dead and go further - to recover. But it may also be that the covide epidemic is only the first act of an upcoming global drama. The confrontation with China has not disappeared, but, on the contrary, only escalated, the migration crisis has not gone away, but with growing unemployment it has overgrown with new hopeless prospects, in North Korea it is not clear what the leader is and who is now in power in a hungry but nuclear power, and prices for oil - even lower than on the eve of the Gulf War.
And in this situation, Russia was exactly in the middle, between Europe, America and China. And if, God forbid, after the first act there will be a second and a third (and judging by how Donald Trump behaves - he is not averse to continuing the banquet), then we will have to choose the side, and moreover, this choice will be decisive. Whoever Russia joins will win. And here the fun begins.
Despite all the external contradictions, we still get along pretty well with “our redhead” Donald. But with Comrade Xi, we have reached a good level of mutual understanding. Over the past few years, Russia, torn away by Europe, has turned to the East, and the East as a whole has answered us the same.
In the current situation, Great China would be a more logical ally for us than the United States or Europe, but there is only one caveat: it was not with China that we defeated German Nazism.
Great America is much clearer to us in mentality, closer in its place in the global world game. Centuries-old ties connect us to Europe: we have common literature and music, a common aristocracy, we saved it at the cost of our Russian lives already many times. And Putin, traditionally our main European, is giving another hint.
Once together we brought the world back to balance, we restored the fragile world, we saved future generations. Having stepped over disagreements, in the face of a great war - empty and worthless. We can do it again, and when still to remember about it, if not on the eve of the anniversary of the Victory, which we will celebrate so strangely this year. Whatever goes on us, we reach out again. Before you finally turn your back on the rising sun of the coming great cataclysm.
The author’s point of view may not coincide with the position of the publisher.