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Vitaly Portnikov
the only trump card of Putin.
Why Putin rattles the saber near our borders? Why are satisfied with all these endless exercises? Why acts with provocative statements? The thirst for war? Insanity? Irritation due to the fact that Ukraine and the civilized world is not in a hurry to fulfill the conditions of impunity crazed autocrat?
Putin is behaving quite logically. Soon – a meeting of leaders of “twenty”. The meeting with Obama has not been confirmed, and the Kremlin has put a good face on a bad game. Putin’s press Secretary Peskov explained to journalists that the presidents of the United States and Russia will not be able to face on the sidelines – and the media presented the news as “the possibility of Putin’s meeting with Obama”. And this is not the opportunity to meet. This means that Putin will run for Obama, yet it has not come across. A bilateral meeting is still to be agreed.
The idea of torpedoing the “Normandy format” and turning it into a trilateral format during meetings, which will develop guidelines for Poroshenko, failed spectacularly. Apparently, the idea of the trilateral meeting was a lie Peskov. Or Lavrov. What is the difference in the end, one of those pointless gray officials lying? Work for Putin – that means you’re lying. Sometimes even to Putin himself, as demonstrated by the sad fate of Crimea liar” Ivanov.
With the Crimean provocation, which was aimed at lifting the sanctions on the evidence that the main destabilizer of the situation is the Ukraine, which also did not grow together. In the West we are talking about maintaining – and even strengthening – the sanctions.
Oil is teetering on the verge of $ 40, putting under question the performance of even that gnawed budget, which was approved for the current year.
Putin to have influence on the West? What else he knows, but to scare? Once the Soviet Union was called “Upper Volta with rockets”. But such a comparison now – is an insult to the Republic of Burkina Faso and its President Rock kaboré, who won the alternative fair elections and carrying out economic reforms, which in backward Russia needs not less, and even more! – the former Upper Volta. No, the country, headed by Putin – it’s just Russia with missiles. In addition to missiles and troops, Putin has nothing. Well the oil is. But getting cheaper.
So he will escalate tensions on our borders in the hope that Obama and Merkel will be frightened. So many more women and children will die under Putin’s bombs in Syria – if only they will not save the offensive of the Turkish army. To frighten and kill – the only foreign policy trump card of Vladimir Putin. No other content in his policy no longer is.
