Fear has big eyes

A single-component drug for coronavirus "Sputnik Light" has been registered in Russia. Based on the specifics of the application, it can be called a rapid response vaccine. President Vladimir Putin has already said that our vaccines are being compared to a Kalashnikov assault rifle. But not in the sense that no matter what we do, everything turns out automatically, but proceeding from the basic principles: simplicity, reliability and tradition. “Our drugs are based on technologies and platforms that have been used for decades,” the Russian leader noted. We stand on this, these are the foundations and secrets of our security concept. Use it!

By the way, this call is also implemented in the domestic philosophy of vaccination: Russia is transferring technologies for the production of its vaccines to other countries, and is also ready to support proposals to remove patent protection from drugs against COVID-19. And so the very primacy of security comes to the fore, when an infection can be overcome only by vaccinating an overwhelming number of countries, and not making a profit at any cost. This is a completely traditional domestic solution. Only not everyone understands and enjoys it ...

All this is significantly different from the global background, where a real battle of vaccines is taking place, the promotion of economic, political and other interests at any cost. Still: huge sums are at stake, the reputation of a deliverer from a lingering infection, and so on and so forth. How can you not use the situation to your advantage, and let people wait. Long expectations bode well for big profits. The health of humanity, intimidated, exhausted, backed by a wall, can be juggled, if only it is in their favor. Cynically? Yes. But do the standards of democracy that are imposed on the whole world cancel cynicism? ..

So the European bureaucrats are doing everything possible to prevent the solution of the problem of the shortage of vaccines against coronavirus in Europe with the help of Russian drugs. Now there are arguments that such vaccines are not needed at all, then they begin to speculatively declare that many months will pass before it will be possible to start production of the same "Sputnik V". In short, don't let it go - and that's it. Thierry Breton, the European Commissioner for Internal Market Affairs, distinguished himself with a similar bias.

The manufacturers of Sputnik V have already approached him with a request to stop "misleading the public with biased statements against the Russian vaccine." The letter says that from June to September 2021, up to 50 million EU citizens can be vaccinated with Sputnik V. Do you think these words will take effect? The question is rhetorical, but it seems that the health and well-being of these tens of millions of citizens is still not in the first place among the European bureaucrats.

A prejudiced attitude towards our country, as well as towards everything connected with it, is an extremely profitable enterprise.

A kind of universal master key to promote all kinds of personal interests.

How is it possible to refuse such a gold-bearing vein, which is overt or veiled Russophobia?

It allows you to solve many issues bypassing logic, common sense, laws, the safety of your own population, in the end.

All you have to do is brandish the Russian threat.

Reinforced concrete argumentation, none of their own will condemn, for them the necessary picture of the world has long been formed, and at this time you can drag chestnuts out of the fire.

Nice thing.

In general, the strategy of containing "aggressive" Russia promises many benefits.

A dubious espionage hysteria was launched in the Czech Republic, to put it mildly, and Rosatom was excluded from the tender for the expansion of the Dukovany nuclear power plant.

Also after that, Prague announced that they would not attempt to purchase Russian vaccine.

Red tape, many obstacles and tantrums on the way of Nord Stream 2, and all because there is more correct gas from a more correct and democratic country.

Our "bees", of course, carry the wrong "honey" ...

That is why, with special zeal, our country is suspected of all grave problems.

They convince themselves that in fact the Russian vaccine is a hybrid weapon, from the same opera as the cyberattacks of inflamed brains.

That it is an instrument of soft power that Russia allegedly uses to sow discord and split the collective West.

This is how highly profitable phobias spread. You can get an idea of ​​the specifics of their promotion, for example, from the remark of the Ukrainian President Zelensky, who reacted to the Russian speech with the words: "They are everywhere!" So this wrapping up of fear, efforts to drive society into a cocoon of phobias does not happen just like that, you do not live well and not because of the love of horror stories.

We, of course, have huge fangs, long and powerful paws, and we ourselves are covered with wool, wild and unbridled, democracy for us is a powerful allergen, and our vaccines and natural gas are all the same, with Novichok ... with all this political and economic cynical mythology, the huge ears of many interested parties are always sticking out. The situation with the admission of Russian vaccines to the EU perfectly illustrates this. And not only her. Remember how Italy was reprimanded last year for accepting Russian assistance in the fight against the coronavirus outbreak? This is how they do their business, this is how they eliminate competitors. Although it is also possible to understand: they are used to staying out of the competitive environment for a long time, which was replaced by the system of vassal-suzerain relations with the smell of the old colonial clichés, only in a new wrapper. One can do everything, while others are supposed to stay within a rigid framework,entangled in regulations and restrictions, chains and shackles - this is how they live.

For such a mythology close to paganism, clergymen are needed, broadcasting legends, plots that mislead people.

Priests, ready for mass sacrifices, just to prevent the strengthening of Russian influence.

Eurobureaucrats regularly fulfill their role in this sacred rite.

Or here's the story with the recognition of the American drug Moderna as the best way to create immunity against coronavirus.

This is the decision of the World Vaccine Congress in Washington DC.

Can you imagine for a second that there was a different solution?

For example, to be recognized as the best Russian "Sputnik V"?

It is clear that this is from the realm of unreal fantasy, and there can be no arguments, as well as the criteria for awarding the palm are very dark and incomprehensible.

However, the argument is always the same: we choose our own for the sake of new evidence of our own exclusivity.

Clean politics and clean economics.

Therefore, there is no competition, there are no common standards and rules of the game.

Point.

Strangers will not be allowed.

And the fact that there are many lives on the scales is a traditional subject for manipulation.

Russia, on the other hand, declares the opposite: it relies on security for all, and therefore focuses on simplicity, reliability and tradition.

This is our time-tested effective conservatism.

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