The Russian blitzkrieg has been announced since November by Bloomberg.

Then the announcements followed both from the Western fourth power (the lion's share of the Anglo-Saxon press was noted, the German tabloids also participated), and from the side of the first power.

British Foreign Secretary Elizabeth Truss... everything happened in the Foreign Office, but no historians will remember such a miracle.

Senior State Department and White House officials, including President Biden.

Justice requires that the leaders of continental Europe (if you do not include the limitrophs, who also burned not like a child, but what to take from the poor?) Show great caution.

Some idea that one should play with military anxiety, knowing the measure, they have preserved.

But Washington and London threw a tantrum both for themselves and for the European guy.

The climax came on Wednesday, February 16th.

On this date, the blitzkrieg was scheduled not only by some Bloomberg, but by Biden himself.

Further, with the expectation of the barbarians, an indecency appeared, described by the modern Greek poet Konstantinos Cavafy -

Night fell, but the barbarians did not arrive.

And from the state borders they reported to us,

that they do not exist at all in nature.

And what are we to do now without the barbarians?

After all, this would be at least some way out. ”

After all that was said and done, including the hasty evacuation of the embassies and the destruction (so that it would not fall into the hands of the Russians) of the embassy encryption equipment, the need to somehow convincingly explain "what it was" seemed undoubted.

If this was a mental eclipse, then where is the guarantee that the authorities and media of the enlightened West will not now be regularly subjected to this kind of eclipse?

And when a country is led by people with a twilight consciousness, it is both unpleasant and dangerous for the citizens of these countries themselves.

After February 16, the Western rulers of bodies and souls choose different methods.

Pluralism is great.

Some, like the minister of Her Majesty Truss, behave as if nothing had happened at all:

"I sing the old hymns

And my wet robe

Drying in the sun under a rock,

those.

the invasion will still be highley like.

You will object to such unshakable hardness of Hailey.

Others, like the State Department's port-password Ned Price, use a different method of argumentation: "There was no rain, all this tempted you."

Namely: “I don’t think you heard us from some podium, indicating the exact day of the “invasion”.

For a while, you hear us trying to get across that Russia has created an opportunity to attack at any time.”

Obviously, Price means that his colleague Psaki, as well as Biden, Blinken and national security assistant Sullivan, although they reported the exact date of the blitzkrieg, they did it not from the podium (high pedestal), but from some other lower place.

So we didn’t crap at all ... and shame on anyone who thinks otherwise.

However, Price has a job like this -

“Yes, he was always a debater:

You lean against the wall - refuse

He went through the corridor

And ended up with a wall, it seems.

Chief Biden himself, carefully avoiding the topic of false prophecies (which is reasonable), preferred to use the harassment of favor: “I appeal to the citizens of Russia: you are not our enemies.

And I don't believe you want a bloody, destructive war against Ukraine."

Which was found in the fable "The Wolf in the Kennel", written by grandfather Krylov more than two centuries ago:

"Friends!

Why all this noise?

I, your old matchmaker and godfather,

I came to put up with you, not at all for the sake of a quarrel;

Let's forget the past, set a common mood!

It should be noted that although the image of a friendly godfather may not have a touching effect on all Russians, it is still definitely better than the intransigence of Trass or negatively Price.

True, the task of the collective West now is not so much to move the Russians, but rather to convincingly explain to their own subjects.

And somehow it doesn't work out with that.

For they lied, as before the end of the world, not even allowing the thought that they would have to disentangle this mess.

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