Sometimes it seems to me that politicians consider their constituents, as well as ordinary citizens who voted for someone else, blind, deaf and illiterate.
And most importantly - incapable of comparing one process with another, even if they unfold at the same time.
For example, the United States, which has long controlled the world economy with the help of the dollar, strives to keep it that way forever: not only petrodollars, but also control and blackmail of banks in other countries, and so on.
And whoever resists will have a hard time, up to military intervention.
But attention: the US is not an empire, it does not behave like an empire, it does not have imperialist encroachments, it does not pursue an imperialist policy, but is an exemplary democratic country.
And whoever does not agree with this will have a hard time, up to bombing strikes.
Moreover, right now, on live television, the United States is democratically strangling the European economy in a friendly embrace in order to kindly invite entire enterprises and the largest companies in Germany to close in Europe and move to the hospitable expanses of America.
What will happen in the European expanses in this case does not bother anyone, all these closed factories, firms and enterprises, all these workers thrown out into the street, all these sources of tax revenues ... Can this process be called an "imperialist seizure" - by no means .
This is only to ensure that there are fewer CO2 emissions in the world and that it is easier for German companies in their new homeland to be given electricity and gas.
Pure charity.
And whoever disagrees, the liquefied gas of freedom will be even more expensive for him.
All this is happening before our eyes and before the eyes of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
But what is it that's happening?
It seems that Scholz has his back to America and does not notice the trouble at all.
And ignores talk of American democracy.
All the ardor of his social-democratic soul is brought down on imperialist Russland.
In one of the fragments of an article for Foreign Affairs magazine, subtitled "The Empire Strikes Back," Scholz accused Russia of violating international law and imperial behavior.
Thank you Olaf, thank you Chancellor, we also watched Star Wars, but there is one problem with the image of Darth Vader.
There, under the mask, it is not very clear who it is - either Putin, or Biden, or maybe Comrade Xi in general.
And in the end, the "Empire of Evil" is a Reagan meme about the USSR, when Germany began to receive cheap Russian gas and build the most powerful industry in Europe.
Doesn't channel.
So what did Russia do there again and why is Scholz unhappy with it?
In the article, the chancellor talks about the attempts of Germany and France to support the functioning of the Minsk agreements.
These two wonderful countries defended the Minsk agreements, dragged them, pushed them, pulled them out of the mud and ditches, but they never worked.
And who is to blame?
That's right, "Russia and its revisionist policy, which made the success of diplomacy impossible."
Let's stop and take a breath.
Personnel need to recover and smoke.
Because it's something.
It turns out that it was the Russians who torpedoed the Minsk agreements, and not Ukraine plus its curators turned the failure to implement the Minsk agreements into a long-term process of preparing military power.
There is evidence of this - just read the interview of Petro Poroshenko on June 17 with the Ukrainian media.
Where, in fact, in plain text: Ukraine agreed to the Minsk agreements with one goal - to gain time and prepare for a full-scale war against Russia.
Kyiv did not even think about resolving the conflict peacefully.
Petro Poroshenko confessed to the actual deception of Russia and the West, who signed the agreements as the President of Ukraine.
So what?
Nothing.
Mr. Scholz considers his voters and fellow citizens to be illiterate children due to their age.
Because Russia is an imperialist state, and America is a democratic one, and the outpost of democracy in Europe is yesterday's outpost of European corruption Ukraine (until February 24).
Do not confuse.
Any history teacher will tell you: interpretation is bullshit, the main thing is not to mix up the dates on the exam.
But Scholz has another ace up his sleeve.
It is called "Now let's live together."
He writes: “We must defend our open societies, uphold our democratic values, strengthen alliances and partnerships.
But we must also avoid the temptation to divide the world into blocks again.”
This is the words of a politician who has done nothing to prevent the NATO bloc from approaching the Russian borders.
That is, in order for the world not to be divided into blocs again, there must be only NATO under the leadership of the United States (which is not an empire at all, but a beacon of democracy) - and no more alliances.
"And there will be peace on earth and goodwill among men," as the angels of God wrote in their article in an old issue of Heaven's Affairs.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.