The US is again bargaining with Russia for Ukraine

Over the years of the new Cold War, we have learned to read the news from overseas correctly. Here and now. In the United States, they started talking about the settlement in Donbass and started a new hurdy-gurdy about Ukraine's membership in NATO. Is Washington suddenly seriously concerned about the fate of our neighbors and sincerely wants to help Kiev? As our neighbors say, “it’s more dumb.” Everything is very simple. The Americans are starting to bargain with Russia again. Ukraine here is only an instrument, an object, and not a subject of international politics, as it has been in recent decades.

What will the bargaining be about this time?

There are many reasons: the latest weapons in the form of hypersonic missiles - Avangards, Daggers, Zircons, and joint Russian-Chinese exercises, and energy resources, and metallurgy, and much, much more.

Americans act in the style of playing poker - their usual technique.

First, raise the stakes and bluff, force your opponent to fold or make concessions.

Will not work?

No fear: there will be a new round.

But Washington has one serious problem at the moment.

Americans still think they have a full house, but in reality they only have a street.

But we have a royal flush both in the field of armaments and in the ability to withstand any, the most severe economic sanctions - the years of preparation and import substitution were not in vain.

"We support Ukraine's defense reform and its aspiration to become a NATO member," said Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin. “No third country has the right to veto NATO membership,” these are his words again. Traditional, already familiar and even boring mantras designed to raise the morale of the Ukrainian elite, cheer them up, give them another empty hope. The already familiar fatherly pat on the shoulder: hold on, boy, we are with you, we are together. Lulling phrases, lulling the vigilance, and rare handouts to remind who is the boss here.

It is dangerous for Ukrainians that the local political class, having got used to such forms of interaction with the United States, continues to believe them by inertia. And this is an extremely alarming symptom for the further existence of Ukraine, because living in a state of self-deception, in constant hope for something that, by definition, cannot happen, is only to aggravate the crisis in which you find yourself. 

Instead of starting to somehow solve the mountain of accumulated problems of an economic, political, and social nature, Kiev continues to take sedatives, hoping that Crimea and Donbass are about to be brought to them on a silver platter - and then life will improve immediately.

They won't: there is no such force in the world now that would be able to do this.

This must be understood and accepted.

In order to start treating Ukraine, its political leadership still needs to face the truth and see the real state of affairs.

And this is a very serious problem in Kiev.

And in general, there is a serious crisis in the world in terms of a sober assessment of the real state of affairs, which is already there. 

What is the main conclusion we should draw in the wake of the news coming from Washington?

They still perceive Russia as a threat - and a very serious threat.

They really want to do something with us to stop being afraid.

But what can they really do?

Even if Nord Stream 2 is about to start work, even if life goes on under sanctions, the Russian economy is developing, GDP is growing, and with Russian military power it is not at all clear what to do. 

They are very scared, so the methods are the same: blackmail and threats.

We saw, we know, we react exclusively with irony and self-esteem.

Washington does not understand that no one takes such stories seriously anymore.

Their state car slips, making a lot of noise, splashing mud from under the wheels in all directions, but not moving forward a centimeter.

The United States has become predictable and easy to calculate.

Well, we will watch and pursue our policy.

The United States can no longer seriously interfere with us - it can only sprinkle it with mud.

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