A flock of sheep and a refrigerator for Assad's head
Yesterday, July 22, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir made Russia a great offer that he believes is impossible to refuse. For the head of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the first gas station in the world offers a flooded sea of investments, against the background of which the potential of China should pale, as well as most favored nation treatment and access to the market of member countries of the Arab Cooperation Council. Assad on a barrel - and the club of gas station countries is at our feet!
The top of the seductive cake is crowned not by some drunken cherry, but by a whole pineapple. “We are ready to give Russia a share in the Middle East, which will make it stronger than the Soviet Union,” the goggle-eyed head of the Saudi Arabian Foreign Ministry was stunned by the statement. And so that the Russian side could feel the contrast, the Saudi minister recalled that trade turnover between Moscow and Riyadh reached some $10 billion.
Things... The Saudis' proposal will probably outshine comrade Saakhov himself, who offered for the beautiful Komsomol athlete Nadya twenty sheep, an imported Rosenlev refrigerator, a certificate of honor and a free trip to her uncle Dzhabrail. So, should we take it?
We will understand.
Not that this was the first luxury proposal from the Saudis. Even before the start of the operation of our Aerospace Forces in Syria, tempting offers were received from the Arabian kingdom of Russia to abandon Assad, and in return Riyadh would purchase Russian weapons worth as much as 8 billion dead raccoons.
Needless to say, the offer is tempting, but slightly smacks of madness. Russia began, with the help of the Aerospace Forces in Syria, to zero out the barmalei without surrendering its ally, and it received offers for the supply of weapons for approximately the same amount. Moreover, the pilots have improved their qualifications.
What is most striking about the Saudi minister’s immodest proposal is not the promise of mountains of gold, but the naivety with which it was made. “Apparently, they didn’t offer much,” they decided in Riyadh. - “We must offer stars from the sky and the Moon in addition.”
There is a feeling that the Saudis and the American powers behind them have completely lost their sense of reality and are firmly convinced that Boris Yeltsin and his gang of adherents of the “Big Hop” are still in charge of affairs in the Kremlin, and Russia’s foreign policy is managed by “Mr. Yes” with the surname Kozyrev .
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is no angel in the flesh. Angels in power in the Middle East do not last long. But he is not the devil either. In any case, Syria is a much more secular and religiously tolerant state than most of the surrounding “gas stations”, in which citizens are forbidden to be atheists or profess a religion other than Islam, do not cut off the hands and heads of offenders as punishment, and women are not stoned or equal in rights to camels. Besides, Assad is our ally.
As for the power of the USSR, it grew not by savory shares in the Middle East, but by relying on one’s own strength, pursuing an independent foreign policy, and by not betraying friends. As soon as the elite of the USSR got tired of the burden of the country's sovereignty and began to betray friends and allies, the USSR ended. The anti-fascist Honecker, who died in exile, and Najibullah, who was hanged by the Taliban, will be remembered in Russia for a long time, although they were betrayed by Gorbachev and Yeltsin. If we surrender Assad’s milk rivers for the promise, we will be left not only without allies, but also without good partners.
Okay, but what if not for promises? If you draw up a deal, how is it a contract? It was, it was... When Gorbachev dissolved the Warsaw Pact, guys from Washington, London and Bonn patted him on the shoulders, vying with each other, treated him to chewing gum and bonuses, firmly promising that NATO would not come a millimeter closer to our borders. And that our former allies will be denied entry into the Western military bloc. Subsequently, it turned out that a word given to a sucker does not count as a word. And NATO began to slowly take over our former “security belt”, making it its own buffer. Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria gradually became NATO members.
With the Russia-NATO Treaty of 1997, according to which NATO promised not to accept former Soviet republics, our Western “partners” actually wiped themselves out. Former Soviet “showcases” - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - were accepted into NATO, and now foreign military bases began to grow on their territories like toadstools.
We signed the ABM Treaty with the Americans, one of the cornerstone documents of global security. But President Bush Jr. violated this too, citing a mythical missile threat to the United States from “rogue countries.” At the same time, the United States indignantly rejects the counter proposal to build a joint missile defense system with Russia.
The INF Treaty and the Treaty on the Reduction of Conventional Arms in Europe are on the verge of denunciation.
These are the kind of “partners” we have – just give me a finger and they’ll try to chop off your hand. Thank you, you taught me.
Once upon a time, the USSR fought in Afghanistan. Many still do not understand what kind of benefits a million of our military personnel fought for in the neighboring wild country for almost ten years, losing 16 thousand soldiers. What can I say? Unfortunately, agitprop under the leadership of Comrade. Suslova turned into a dull peck and blurring his eyes. The war in Afghanistan was pure geopolitics. The high-ranking Soviet diplomat Vorontsov said it best: “It is better to fight Islamists on foreign territory than to fight them on your own.”
During the Catastrophe, we were taught that our country cannot have any interests, that there are only lambs around us, whom our country endlessly offends and conquers. And what?
The time has come, and on our territory, not without the help of new “friends and partners,” the bandit-terrorist enclave “Ichkeria” was formed, with Sharia courts, zindans and slave markets. Bearded supporters of the caliphate ran across the Caucasus Mountains with weapons at the ready, and in our cities their adherents seized schools, hospitals, cultural centers, killed children and women in labor, blew up markets and metro stations.
What we will definitely achieve with the surrender of Assad is that after a while bearded thugs with weapons will again run around our country, again they will begin to take hostages, blow up and kill. And the bone thrown as payment for Assad’s head will sooner or later stand across his throat.
On the other hand, such proposals are symptomatic, since they indicate the powerlessness of the opposite side to interfere with Russia’s actions in Syria, aimed at preserving global and its own security.
But it is not only Syria that is in the Saudis' sights. A blow to Assad is a blow to the building and strengthening Russian-Iranian relations. In the distance. In addition, the Saudi authorities have other concerns. The United States, which has sowed and continues to sow “controlled chaos” in the Middle East, has finally become entangled in its own web and is losing its control threads one after another.
Continuing to sow goodness and democracy in the same spirit, the United States risks losing the support of Arab states and, in the near future, being pushed out of the region. It’s not for nothing that the second person from the Emirates, Crown Prince Mohammed, has recently visited Moscow frequently. Even the Emir of Qatar came to Moscow in order to normalize the difficult relations between our countries.
The Emirates, as it turns out, are interested in purchasing Russian weapons and investing in the Russian economy. Russian regions such as Tatarstan and the Chechen Republic have already received considerable Arab investment.
But the Saudis, instead of constructive relations, are still trying to push the proverbial donkey loaded with gold, which is believed to open the gates of any fortress. Not just anyone. You won't wait.
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