How many times in recent years have we said and heard: the world has changed, the system of international law is bursting at the seams, all the agreements between the two great nuclear powers, the USA and the USSR, reached in the 1980s, have been thrown into the trash can.
How many different sanctions have already been introduced against us, which surprisingly clear the markets for the authors of those very sanctions?
Well, there are no idiots in business and economics, so no matter how much glaze you put on a donut, you can't hide a hole.
These are all elements of a full-scale hybrid war that has been waged since 2003.
NATO enlargement, sponsoring the Orange Revolutions, military interventions, denying access to foreign financial markets, banning technology transfers and delaying registration of today's best and very first coronavirus vaccine.
Well, I generally propose to celebrate yesterday.
Let's call it Dementor's Day, for example.
After all, for the first time since the Second World War, the leader of a civilized power (even if he looked like a person stuffed with tranquilizers) called his colleague and the leader of a nuclear power a killer.
Why did Vladimir Putin not call Barack Obama and Joe Biden the murderer in 2009-2017?
These people have so much blood on their hands that it can be delivered by tankers.
And this is no exaggeration: hundreds of thousands of civilians suffered at the hands of these people.
At the same time, Putin met with them, shook hands and behaved extremely correctly.
It's simple: composure cannot betray the leader of a nuclear power.
Never.
The head of such a state cannot afford to burn bridges by blurting out (or hyping) a direct insult on the air.
Behind him stands the people and their interests, and in the case of Russia and the United States, also the question of the survival of the human race.
If you do not know how - do not take it.
Tired - take a break.
They asked - think before you tell the whole world.
The journalist, of course, caught his finest hour.
He asked an idiotic question (well, with no prospects, if you are not Frost, and before you is not harassed and humiliated Nixon) and received the answer of his whole life.
Drinking a five-dollar milkshake now, I guess.
And Mr. Biden deprived himself of the possibility of a personal meeting with Vladimir Putin.
Because America does not know how to apologize, and a blind old man, whose problems with speech and diction are similar to dyslexia, will not even pick up the right words.
Personally, I'm sure Biden fell into the trap of his own importance yesterday.
Having not done anything yet in geopolitics (START III was not his doing), he behaved like an aspiring actor who for the first time was asked something on the merits.
And it turned out that you seemed to have an advance payment for the future, and you immediately ran to perform Ranevskaya's benefit performance.
I am sure that composure will not change Vladimir Putin.
Channels will be found for communication even with such a King Lear.
But the Americans are both sorry and not.
They themselves called the Dementor, let them now shout: "Expecto Patronum!"
Until he sucked the remnants of sanity out of them.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.