Balancer of Europe

“Europe and the OSCE must prepare for such openness.

This is our chance in promoting the idea of ​​joint European security - security that cannot be achieved without Russia or even in spite of it. "

These are the words of the German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas. 

Diplomats are often given the thankless role of saying obvious things to everyone.

Oak is a tree, a rose is a flower, and further down the list.

There is a huge state, a nuclear power, half of which is located in Europe and which Mark Jongen, the ideologist of the Alternative for Germany party, quite accurately called “a country with a European head and an Asian belly.”

This country has many years (largely due to the "Asian belly") experience of negotiations of varying degrees of rigidity with "problem areas".

There are “local people”, there is a language that a huge number of people in these most problematic areas understands better than English.

There is an experience of integrating foreign cultures: you can argue as much as you like whether the USSR was good or bad to be the homeland of hundreds of peoples, but the fact that modern Europe is doing much worse is also a completely medical fact.

Finally, there is simply the experience of fighting terrorism, about which the EU has been breaking its teeth for many years.

That is, we more or less know how to deal with modern challenges.

And yet, our "geopolitical partners" (let's call them that because "West" or "Europe" is not entirely accurate - we are both) for some time tried with all their might and are still trying to pretend that neither this country nor its interests exist.

Themselves, they say, with a mustache.

In an extreme case, there is always America, which will resolve any issues by dropping a couple of humanitarian bombs from the sky.

What happened in the end?

2014, Ukraine.

Germany is struggling to play a global powerhouse by casting its boxer Klitschko as the protest leader and presidential candidate.

The current President of the Federal Republic of Germany, and then Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier acts (among others) as the guarantor of Viktor Yanukovych's security.

Less than a day has passed since the moment these guarantees were voiced - and Yanukovych flees to Rostov, the revolution in Ukraine, Klitschko remains out of work (the post of mayor of Kiev is clearly not what the Germans wanted for him).

But the son of the current near-president Joe Biden appears on the scene, the Burisma case and other indicators that Ukraine is now a sphere of American interests.

Some time passes - and Vladimir Zelensky comes to power, who very slowly, very carefully, on tiptoe, but begins to drift towards Russia.

Not because we bought it, and not even because it hadn't come out of our TV before.

But simply because, having acquired Ukraine, neither the United States nor Europe simply know what to do with it.

And how to do it.

2018, in the wake of the next "velvet revolution" Nikol Pashinyan was elected Prime Minister of Armenia.

The general jubilation of our opposition, enthusiastic tweets from Navalny: the Armenians succeeded, the country chose the "European path".

We are now watching the final phase of this path almost live.

European politicians tried to solve the Karabakh problem, Macron and Trump (together with Putin) issued statements, but nothing was resolved and nothing stopped until the direct participants in the conflict turned to Putin. 

Now many are asking why Russia did not intervene earlier, why it did not bring in troops, but few of them mention that no one asked Russia about it then.

Where to send troops?

To the territory that Armenia itself officially recognizes as the territory of Azerbaijan?

But as soon as the Russians were asked, they immediately solved the problem.

As much as circumstances allowed at that time.

2020, Belarus.

An attempted coup, “people's leader” Svetlana Tikhanovskaya fled to Lithuania, from where she was trying to lead the process with the support of literally all of Europe.

All parliaments, all TV channels.

They rush with her as if with Greta Thunberg.

So what?

Old Man is sitting in the same place where he sat before.

Meanwhile, I am sure that if people took to the streets of Minsk with Russian flags and turned to us, and not to Europe, the situation in Belarus could be different.

No, no violent overthrow of the president - the Kremlin doesn't like that. 

And then there is Syria and Venezuela, which we will not touch upon, just so as not to endlessly stretch this text.

And then there is terrorism, which has been shaking Mother Europe for many years now.

And with which Russia every time offers to help deal with - and every time these proposals are not heard. 

But one day you will have to hear.

Russia is there.

And she can do something that others do not.

The heads of our eagle, deployed in different directions, know how to negotiate, know how to maintain balance, otherwise the outlandish bird would have been torn apart long ago.

Moreover, the other, the Stars and Stripes eagle has noticeably passed recently.

Is it starting to reach Europe?

Pleasantly.

Then let's start by stopping speaking the language of sanctions.

You will be surprised in what a wonderful world we can wake up literally the next day.

The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.