But Melnik is not appeased

You can take the girl out of the village, but never take the village out of the girl.

It is possible to remove the infamous Andriy Melnyk from the post of Ukraine's ambassador to Germany, but it is impossible to remove the ambassador from Melnyk, or rather, the "sender" of German politicians to hell.

A little more than ten days ago, Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree that must have aroused hidden jubilation among very many servants of the people in Germany.

According to this document, after seven and a half years of hard work (inventing intricate insults is, you know, not the easiest thing to do), Andriy Melnyk is relieved of his post as head of the Ukrainian diplomatic mission in Berlin.

It would seem, finita la comedy.

The “temporarily unemployed” Andrey Melnyk seems to have no reason to teach German politicians to reason.

But, apparently, someone forgot to tell Melnik himself about this.

The flow of insulting moralizing continued as if nothing had happened.

This time, the target of the now ex-ambassador was the current Prime Minister of the federal state of Saxony, Michael Kretschmer.

Andrei Melnik advised him to "put your head in a freezer to cool down your fantasies about Russia."

What exactly in the actions of Kretschmer made Melnik once again strain his imagination?

The Prime Minister of Saxony merely stated the obvious: it is unprofitable for Germany to sever economic ties with Russia.

It is vital for Germany to continue to receive energy resources from Russia.

The current situation in Europe is throwing the whole world into chaos, so Berlin should become an intermediary in resolving the conflict in Ukraine.

And this set of quite sensible thoughts aroused in Andrey Melnik an irresistible desire to recommend Michael Kretschmer to "put his head in the freezer."

And this is what I have to say about this: Andrei Yaroslavovich is not the same, oh, not the same!

Apparently, the dismissal from the post of ambassador (although, according to rumors, in Kyiv, Melnik will have the position of deputy head of the local Foreign Ministry) still had the most negative effect on his state of mind and, consequently, his ability to come up with offensive language.

Of course, the rudeness from the speeches of the ex-ambassador still has not gone away.

But if we ignore this circumstance, then we can state: trying to insult Michael Kretschmer to the maximum, Andrey Melnik “missed the target”.

Can I prove the correctness of this my thesis?

I'm sure yes.

“Put your head in the freezer” is, in this context, an emotionally charged synonym for the wording “think with a cool head.”

Or rather, like this: in Andrey Yaroslavovich Melnik's “lexical coordinate system”, in order to gain the opportunity to “think with a cool head”, you must first “put your head in the freezer”.

But, as follows from past statements by the Prime Minister of Saxony, he did not need such therapy, and still does not need it.

Here, for example, is what Michael Kretschmer said in September 2020: “I am not interested in a further escalation of relations with Russia, in a greater deterioration in tone.

I would like us to cooperate with this country.”

Do you now understand why I think that, having turned into an ex-ambassador, Andrey Melnyk began to slowly lose his qualifications (if, of course, it can be called that, even as a joke)?

But Melnik still should not fall into a completely complete depression.

If we change the addressees of his “recommendation” and, of course, put it in a more correct form (I have no desire to compete with the ex-ambassador of Ukraine to Germany in terms of inventing insults), then it takes on some meaning.

Fresh (in several senses at the same time) statement by Michael Kretschmer caused discontent not only in Kyiv.

German politicians also attacked the Prime Minister of Saxony with very "emotionally charged" criticism - for example, the Secretary General of the Free Democratic Party, Bundestag deputy Bijan Jir-Saray.

And it would not hurt these figures to take advantage of Andrey Melnik's recommendation that I have reformulated - to start "thinking with a cool head."

But alas, ah.

In the case of the same Bijan Jir-Saray, this advice was also late - at least 14 years. In 2008, this future political star of the German Free Democrats defended a dissertation on a fashionable environmental topic at the University of Cologne.

But, as it turned out a little later, Bijan Jir-Saray's desire to follow fashion was much stronger than his willingness to engage in independent scientific research.

Numerous borrowings were found in the dissertation of the politician (Is that how it is now customary to call plagiarism in politically correct language, in my opinion?), And in 2012 the scientific degree of the current Secretary General was officially revoked.

This is such a poignant story.

Of course, she has only an indirect relation to Andrey Melnik.

But, forgive me this "desecration of geometry", sometimes indirect can be very direct.

After all, the principle “tell me who your friend is (in this case, an ideological like-minded person), and I will tell you who you are” has not been canceled.

"Swear Inventor" and "Borrower" - what a nice company!

It is a pity that it is absolutely impossible to convince its members that silence is golden!

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