As you know, Ukraine is the sixth in the list of countries with a special status of relations with NATO.
Not that the Odessa linguistic analogies suggest themselves, but here there is no need for analogies either.
Squares are no stranger to gearing.
Be it for cheap gas in front of Moscow in the 2000s or, having changed the wind and faith, in front of Poland, Germany, the United States and NATO entirely - for loans, a petty gesheft and simply from the natural cowardice of the Ukrainian political manager.
It has been so long ago, since time immemorial.
Here I ask you to strictly and clearly separate the wonderful Ukrainian people, who are, of course, our relatives, from what is always ultimately obtained from the local government when it is not supervised by the metropolis.
Recently, a prominent representative of the latter category of Ukrainians, the Minister of Infrastructure (there is such a ministry, and there will be no infrastructure soon), Pan Krykliy, due to some misunderstanding, held talks with the whole NATO Deputy Secretary General for Defense Policy and Planning Patrick Turner.
The very fact of such a meeting, to put it mildly, is already an oxymoron.
But this is only at first glance.
Taking advantage of such luck, Krikliy tried to sell to a visiting NATO member what did not belong to him.
Or rather, directly and bluntly offered NATO to use the Crimean airspace for its military purposes.
At your own discretion, so to speak.
Indeed, according to his, Krikliya, documents (with seals!), The air navigation zone from Kherson to Cape Fiolent on the South Coast and the city of Russian sailors of Sevastopol with a missile submarine base in Balaklava is all at his own disposal and in the jurisdiction of Kiev.
For this small service, as usual, Pan Krikliy asked for a little, but in hard currency.
“We propose to use this part of the airspace for NATO air operations to transport troops, equipment, cargo and the like.
We hope for NATO's support in monitoring the air situation along the border with Russia, ”- can be read on the website of this strange Ukrainian agency, signed by its chief.
It's a pleasure to endlessly mock and scoff at this absurd reason, but still.
Yesterday another representative of the Ukrainian political administration spewed out another initiative.
“Crimean Tatar Mejlis” * as a structural subdivision of the SBU, through the mouth of one of the leaders, suddenly announces that they will urgently submit to the Verkhovna Rada a ready-made bill on the gradation of harm to residents of the Russian Crimea according to the degree of harm done to the Ukrainian state.
This bill suggests a scale of 100 points of harm according to "the degree of active cooperation with the occupiers and guilt towards Ukraine."
The invaders are you and me, for example, I was born in the city of military glory of Feodosia, my relatives and my graves are there.
Well, ok, I, in principle, do not mind.
Moreover, as it is proposed under these Ukrainian laws (what do we, citizens of Russia have to do with it?), The inhabitants of the Russian Crimea themselves need to assess their degree of harm.
And, accordingly, the transition to the 50-point line automatically leads to repression, sanctions, lustration, and so on.
What can you say here?
It is not that they completely and completely lost their brains in Kiev, but such initiatives only strengthen all, without exception, the inhabitants of the Crimean peninsula in the exactness of their historic decision to return to their native harbor in 2014.
For seven years, the native Crimea within Russia has changed so much and has become critically different from everything Ukrainian that, of course, none of the Crimeans wants to return to the rude Ukrainian reality.
As for Pan Krikliya's geshefts regarding the airspace of the Crimea, then, of course, if anyone wants to get acquainted with the latest air defense systems of the RF Armed Forces in practice, then please shave!
I think there are not so many idiots in NATO as in the independent political administration of Ukraine, and Pan Krykliy will be left without sweets.
Although, of course, the media effect from the statements of Ukrainian politicians will be exaggerated in Western media for some time.
In addition to feeling annoyed for Ukrainian relatives, there is another thing.
Such a disgrace is how to wash it off, and most importantly, what will you then?
Well, when will everything fall into place and Ukraine will become itself again?
The question is, of course, rhetorical.
Forgive me for this tone of presentation, but as new, so is the tone.
* "Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People" is a public association recognized as extremist and banned on the territory of Russia (decision of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Crimea of 04/26/2016 and an appeal ruling of the Judicial Collegium for Administrative Cases of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of 09/29/2016).
The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.