Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken agreed to hold a meeting in Reykjavik on May 20, one of the main goals will be to discuss the details of a future meeting between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden.
Of course, you need to meet and talk.
When the state takes the position “I am offended,” it looks undignified.
On the other hand, it should be remembered and understood that the United States is an extremely unreliable partner.
This expression has recently become stable in domestic political journalism.
Although if we consider it from the point of view of formal logic, it turns out that the United States cannot be any partner.
The default partnership assumes at least some minimal reliability.
And the USA - they gave their word, took the floor, changed their minds, then changed their minds again.
Is it bad?
Of course, there is nothing good about that.
But there is nothing new either.
We all understood very well a long time ago that agreements with the United States are sometimes worthless if they give their word so easily and take it back.
Of course, you shouldn't feel sorry for the Americans, they didn't deserve it, but it should be understood that the situation is much more difficult in these conditions for the United States itself.
After all, this progressive insecurity is virtually identical to a lack of authority and respect on the part of the peer countries.
America is respected out of habit, but the further, the more the attitude towards the United States as a world gendarme is replaced by the attitude towards Washington as a monkey with a grenade.
There is fear, respect is zero.
Of course, this state of affairs may continue for some time, which we are seeing today, but in the long term, such positioning will definitely not bring any positive results for the United States.
Actually, their problems have already begun, and serious ones.
And this is just the beginning, the trajectory of the movement is clear.
Once upon a time the whole world was "crap English", then she faded into the background, the United States came to the fore.
It looks like their time has almost run out by now.
Next in line is another change of leaders and a reconfiguration of the geopolitical space.
Obviously, having insulted our president in one of his recent interviews, Joe Biden, quite simply, spat against the wind.
Because in a decent society, such statements should automatically mean the impossibility for the speaker of such words to meet with the person to whom they were spoken.
But what do we see?
Very little time passes - and Biden offers to meet Putin.
What is this in terms of generally accepted norms of behavior?
Either complete self-deprecation, or renunciation of views.
Neither one nor the other for the president of a nuclear power, in theory, is unacceptable.
In fact, the Americans did not notice how they themselves had lowered themselves from the pedestal of the world hegemon to a small animal rushing from side to side.
They have not yet realized this and continue to puff out their cheeks vigorously, pretending that everything is still and their affairs are in order, but everyone around them has either already become clear, or their eyes are starting to clear up.
Well, we are glad that the United States cannot do without a meeting with the Russian president.
An excellent statement of an indisputable fact: Russia is a world player, it is impossible not to take her and her position into account.
Moreover, it turns out that Washington would like to have “stable and predictable relations with Moscow, for which it is necessary to establish communication channels,” says Blinken.
The question arises, why was it necessary to tear these channels?
A complete list in its inadequacy on the part of the United States - that's what it is.
More precisely, it would be so under normal, normal conditions.
And for several decades we have moved, if we talk about big politics, into total postmodernity, and there rational rules do not work, and there is no healthy view of things.
It turns out some kind of unnatural symbiosis of norm and postmodernity. On the one hand, Lavrov and Blinken go to Reykjavik. This is normal. No “new reality” has been able to change the balance of power in the world space. There is no doubt that if the goal is declared, then with the goodwill of each of the parties, it will be achieved. Dialogue is always better than no dialogue. In any case, in the end, you will still have to speak, no matter how tough the confrontation is, humanity has not yet come up with another way to get out of difficult situations.
On the other hand, is there any point in expecting any real results from this meeting?
I guess not.
Let's face it.
Most likely, a common desire will be declared to resolve the crisis in relations, perhaps some provisions will even be fixed on paper.
But we were not born yesterday and should understand perfectly well that it is naive to expect from today's America, with its current establishment, which has already managed to show itself in all its glory, especially in the last American elections, a paradigm change of behavior and any fundamental turns.
Perhaps the only thing that can really be expected is Biden's next bravado after meeting with Putin about how he, Biden, talked hard with the Russian president, placed all sorts of red lines, and everything like that in the same spirit.
The Americans have become very predictable in their instability.
For them it is a sentence.
And for us it is very good.
You don't have to be a great sage to guess what America's future behavior will be.
Do not be surprised every time by their uncivilized and arrogant behavior.
Stop paying attention to the United States.
Their irreversible processes of decay and fall of the once powerful power have already started and are in full swing.
But we, Russia, on the contrary, are rising from the ashes.
Our time begins.
And we must not miss it.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.