During the direct line, Vladimir Putin said that the West understands that he will not emerge victorious from the third world war.

The president said this when answering a question about the recent provocation when the British destroyer Defender crossed the Russian border.

It was a planned action, and the UK carried it out in collaboration with its older American brother, who watched everything and recorded everything. Otherwise, one might think that there was a British hysteria caused by jealousy over the fact that the American president met with the Russian one. No, in the camp of the Western world everything is strict, strict discipline. A conditional fly will not fly by without the supervision and blessing of a higher authority, let alone a destroyer. But at the same time, there is competition for the role of a beloved vassal, and therefore they are trying in vain.

It is noteworthy that Putin has to answer questions about the Third World War from time to time. In fact, he is engaged in the fact that he regularly returns this topic from the format of utopianism (with certain assumptions) into the plane of realism. Namely, it returns to the level of general consensus the understanding of the prospects for such a clash, in which the Cold War between the USSR and the United States ended. That is, to the axiom that there will be no winner, that we are talking about suicide.

“We will go to heaven, and they will simply die,” it is no coincidence that this phrase was uttered to him several years ago. This is a therapy for the inflamed mind of a potential aggressor, thinking about games of Armageddon and looking for loopholes to deceive the inevitable. In such statements, not militarism and threats, but a vaccine against the darkness and illusions that arose in the situation of a unipolar world. Unfortunately, in the current realities, such a return to reality is necessary, because the level of self-hypnosis about the exclusivity of others and their "right I have" often goes off scale.

So the Russian president has to get from the western castles of the utopia of war, which supposedly could impose a unipolar order on the world in the future, return it to earth. Moreover, the key to peace is Russian military power, which forces the West to move from utopias to the understanding that it cannot become a winner in such a war. What would have happened to Russia without this power in the current situation of general aggression towards it and clinical Russophobia, one can easily imagine ...

The West understands, and therefore makes regular psychological attacks, tries to wear them down economically and send them into isolation.

They do not leave alone and will not leave.

They will try to use the technologies of splitting society, restructuring, followed by turmoil.

This is because, as the president noted, "the Russian people have always been trying to pull apart and crush, this has been going on since the Middle Ages."

Realizing that in the event of a direct confrontation, it will not become the winner, the West will not start suicidal directly to unleash the Third World War, but will act indirectly, by the hands of others.

The president also spoke about this scenario when he called “the beginning of the military development of the Ukrainian territory” a “fundamental thing”.

In this regard, one can recall the situation before World War II - that "strange" policy of the Western countries, which boiled down to consistent attempts to pacify Hitler, and in fact, to push him to march on the Soviet Union.

It can be assumed that the current project of Ukraine is also needed as such a ram.

They do not feel sorry for her, her power is perceived as collaborators, and therefore they are in a hurry to use it to the fullest until her term expires.

Therefore, they turn a blind eye to the growth of nationalist sentiments there with a frankly fascist smell, because for this, the “Maidan” of 2014 was needed - for a split with Russia, for the subsequent equipping of Independent to the east, for a tough clash.

In fact, the West is well aware that, as Putin said, "Ukrainians and Russians are generally one people."

They understand, and therefore act on the principle of "pull apart and then push."

Their main weapon is split.

Ukraine is needed to unleash a civil war, to cover the territory of historical Russia with new fault lines, as in the time of the collapse of the USSR.

That is why the Russian president called the "military development of the territory" of Ukraine "a fundamental thing."

This is his signal to the West, which in all respects needs Ukraine only as a promising military foothold, because otherwise Poland or Europe in general could be such, but here you can take a breath.

For our country, in the context of understanding the essence of one people, this is a fundamental thing.

Therefore, we are talking about the lack of subjectivity of the current Ukrainian government, which is only implementing a project to promote confrontation and ramming Russia in order to further "pull apart and crush".

The authorities there serve as the Libyan rebels or the Syrian opposition, akin to ISIS *.

He behaves according to similar stencils, because their designers are the same ...

Hence Putin's cautionary emphasis on this topic.

Even if the British destroyer goes to the bottom, there will be no third world war, but the further implementation of the Ukrainian anti-Russia project, turning it into a military base, could lead to unpredictable consequences.

The provocation with the destroyer and the exercises of the NATO countries Sea Breeze in the Ukrainian part of the Black Sea are just needed to raise the militant spirit of the Ukrainian government, to temper and train this gladiator.

Western mentors and leaders hope to observe his further valiant "exploits" from their high tribunes.

Actually, they treated Nazi Germany in a similar way: they hoped to remain observers.

But an incredible world carnage unfolded.

Then we played it out.

Will they understand, will they now realize the danger of such games?

Or do they hope that this will not affect them? ..

We, as the president said, "we know what we are fighting for": "We are fighting for ourselves, for our future on our territory."

We are opposing all those forces that want to pull us apart, and therefore for the Ukrainians too.

* "Islamic State" (IS, ISIS) - the organization was recognized as terrorist by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of December 29, 2014.

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