The Iron Curtain is back

Blinken spoke.

He said that NATO structures should expand from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea.

Blinken's speech was commented on by Lavrov.

He said that NATO is shifting the center of gravity to the most Russophobic countries - the Baltic countries and Poland.

Well, you don't have to be the Minister of Foreign Affairs to figure out what's what.

Everything is more or less obvious.

Moreover, nothing new, strictly speaking, is said at all.

Well, yes, the alliance, contrary to the promises made to Gorbachev, has been quietly moving towards the borders of Russia all these 30 years.

And yes, the closer to the borders of Russia, the more the degree of Russophobia rose.

Fables were composed about communists and Russians.

The truth about the Nazis, both European, Polish and Baltic, was hushed up, swept under the rug.

Instead, new myths were composed - about civilized, noble, beautiful fascists.

The Russians were silent, Russia expressed concern - they probably thought that it would cost.

Russians were struck with their rights, Russians were not allowed to teach children in Russian, Russians were looked down upon.

SS veterans marched through the streets of the capitals, the Russians were dispersed from the monuments, to which they laid flowers on May 9th.

Now the monuments are being demolished.

Russophobia was carefully nurtured, implanted, encouraged.

And at the same time, the NATO bases were slowly moving.

All the same mechanisms were launched in Ukraine.

It was a little more difficult, but it worked here.

In the end, it has become unprincipled whether Ukraine will be in NATO de jure or not.

The main thing is that NATO is already there de facto.

What did we not know about this?

However, there is in the words of Blinken and not so obvious, but still a curious nuance.

Here it is: from sea to sea.

We are talking about cutting off Russia from Europe.

There is no natural border in the form of a sea or a mountain range, but it must be artificially created.

Cordon.

Iron curtain.

Let me remind you here that the iron curtain is not at all an invention of the insidious Bolsheviks, but quite the contrary.

Churchill spoke about the Iron Curtain in that same Fulton speech.

However, even here Churchill was not an inventor: even before him, Goebbels spoke about the same thing, and before him, Clemenceau.

Today, the cherished words are not yet heard, but the meaning is the same.

European politics for the past two hundred years has been based on the attraction and repulsion of three centers of power.

Since the Napoleonic Wars.

For England, a nightmare is the union of France and Russia; for France, the union of England and Russia; for Russia, the union of England and France.

In the 20th century, Germany took the place of France in this structure, and the United States took the place of England, but the structure itself remained the same.

This scheme is rough and approximate, but for our reasoning it is quite working.

Always the diplomacy of all three centers worked to prevent the union of the other two, and whenever two centers nevertheless united against the third, the latter lost.

Goebbels, by the way, in that very article in February 1945 bitterly complains that the British and the Americans themselves do not understand their own happiness and do not want to fight against Bolshevism together with the Germans.

Nothing, right after Goebbels himself sent himself to hell, vilely taking his wife and six children with him, such a plan was developed just in case: in the new war against the USSR, the remaining German divisions were to play a significant role.

This plan would certainly have been carried out if not for the Soviet nuclear miracle.

Napoleonic Wars (England with Russia against France), Crimean War (France with England against Russia), World Wars I and II (Russia with the Island against Germany).

The only thing that has never been successful is a united Europe and Russia to unite against the Island (the States, after all, are also, in fact, an island).

And this, in today's language, the union of Germany and Russia - and to this day the most terrible dream of the islanders.

And a seductive idea for many in Russia and Germany.

Such is, in the rough language of the poster, geopolitics.

Therefore, the eastern edge of NATO is not only a defense against a threat from Russia (rather, an imaginary one) and not only a springboard for an attack on it - this goes without saying.

But it is also a continent cut from sea to sea, cut in order to prevent even the slightest possibility of rapprochement between Moscow and Berlin.

Even a thin thread of the Nord Stream in this sense seems to the Island a terrible danger and must be cut.

However, this tripartite structure of European military history did not always exist, from time immemorial.

It took shape only after the Ottoman Empire gradually weakened, and before that, Sweden, and before that, Spain, and even Russia, joined the game relatively, by historical standards, late.

And it may very well be that we found ourselves in a historical theater at the moment when the three-part structure that has existed for 200 years stops working and mutates into a more complex and more global one, including centers of power that seem to be geographically far away from the Rhine, Vistula and Dnieper , between which all these centuries the bloody military swing has swayed.

And if so, then the Iron Curtain, whatever you want to call it, between Europe and Russia may turn out to be something like the Maginot Line for the Island - a thing apparently and admittedly cool, but completely meaningless.

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