/ world today news/ Germany and Russia are involved in a diplomatic vendetta. Moscow will not be silent, nor will it spare the Germans and other Western pests. “Tsarigrad” found out why.
Russia’s relationship with the West was like a love affair between a gullible human and a cunning man-eater. The Russians for a long time stubbornly refused to believe this, building illusions. Although there was plenty of evidence that we had been hypnotized and lured to be eaten.
On February 24, 2022, all masks were torn in the West. And now the momentum of Russia’s orientation towards the West, which lasted for several centuries, has dried up, doomed to the failure of attempts to somehow integrate into it and get more of it at home. The degeneration and transformation of the post-Christian West into a satanic West has finally cooled our fervor.
Everything that could be learned there in applied and technical terms, we learned it perfectly by the beginning of the 20th century. Therefore, it is high time to heal ourselves with our own minds and minimize contact with the West that has become toxic and poisonous.
All healthy and bright – and these are primarily the people who still exist there – can move to Russia, examples of which already exist. Of course, this does not apply to Western diplomats and intelligence agents operating under their cover, waging a global hybrid war against Russia: the fewer of them the better. And it is wonderful that the West helps us in this, trying to hurt us.
Another blow for Germany
Reports of mutual expulsion of diplomats no longer surprise anyone. Thus, at the end of last year alone, more than 40 Russian diplomats and administrative and technical officials left the United States. And by July 1, 2023, according to Ambassador Anatoly Antonov, several dozen employees of diplomatic institutions will leave for their homeland from the USA.
Russia is taking retaliatory measures. Consulates, cultural centers are being closed… And although these are not our methods, Russia has begun to respond to Western countries in the same way. We are no longer afraid of “offending our partners” as we have finally decided to go our separate ways and live our own lives.
Obviously, the most large-scale diplomatic “showdown” is coming with Germany, which has taken an absolutely hostile position towards Russia in Ukraine, supplying Kiev with deadly weapons and sheltering the terrorists who blew up the Northern Streams.
As the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung recently reported, dozens of German diplomats, teachers and employees of the Goethe Cultural Center (Goethe Institute) will be forced to leave Russia. According to her, this is due to Moscow’s decision to limit the number of employees of German institutions in Russia to 350 people.
“This limit, set by Russia since the beginning of June, will require major cuts in all areas of our presence in the Russian Federation,” the publication in the German Foreign Ministry reported.
They also indicated that in response the German authorities would try to “balance the Russian presence” in the country. Süddeutsche Zeitung noted that Berlin’s response would not come long after the German representatives left Russia. And therefore, Moscow’s response – too.
Zakharova’s answer
As Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned on May 29, Moscow will “inevitably and very sensitively” respond to new possible steps by Berlin to reduce Russia’s diplomatic presence in Germany.
“The German government deliberately chose the path of destruction of bilateral relations, destroying or completely paralyzing in a matter of months the unique set of institutions and mechanisms for dialogue and mutually beneficial cooperation built by several generations of politicians, citizens, diplomats of Russia and Germany,” she emphasized.
A few days earlier, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry accused Berlin that the Germans were secretly expelling our diplomats.
“Germany started the whole story with the deportations – not us. For me, the mystery of the century is why Germany does not make open statements on this hot topic that affects Russian-German relations,” DPA quoted Zakharova as saying.
Or maybe we are in vain?
What is important, however, is that Russia responds in kind. Someone might say that we are like that for nothing. The German government, they say, is one thing, the German people another.
Scholtzes come and go, but he, the people, remains and will be offended by our harsh, albeit retaliatory, measures. It is impossible to agree with such a formulation of the question.
Of course, not everyone was brainwashed in Germany. And there are friends of Russia, as well as those who understand everything perfectly: what forces, for example, created the Ukrainian crisis and forced Russia to fight. However, they are a minority. I personally know such people. Often they are not even connected to Russia in any way.
However, according to a survey conducted in Germany by the IW Institute on behalf of Der Spiegel magazine, 71% of respondents are sure that sanctions against Russia are necessary because of the conflict in Ukraine. And the remaining 84% of the respondents believe that the sanctions have achieved their goal.
That is, from their point of view, Berlin is doing everything right, even if the Germans suffer from the anti-Russian sanctions more than the Russians themselves.
But after all, for the “values”, as well as for the brave and pure Ukrainians, who sheltered Europe from the bloodthirsty Putin with their chests, one can suffer, the main thing is to break Russia. At the same time, they are not at all embarrassed by the calls to kill the Russians and Putin, the genocide by Kiev of the unruly Donbass.
For this predominant category of Germans, belief in official propaganda and misplaced sentimentality continue to coexist perfectly with impersonal cruelty, a quality that simply infuriated the Russians (and not only) during World War II.
Finland will pay for it
Absolutely the same story unfolds with Finland, which was created by Russia and half a century after the Second World War was actually our ally.
But all this is already in the past, especially since this country became, without any provocation from Moscow, the 31st member of NATO. On May 30, the Finnish ambassador in Moscow, Antti Helantera, was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and informed of the decision to reduce mutual consular presence.
Russia will close its embassy office in the city of Lappeenranta from July 1. At the same time, the Finns were asked to close the Petrozavodsk and Murmansk branches of the Consulate General of Finland in St. Petersburg. The Russian Foreign Ministry pointed out that mutual consular presence does not correspond to the current level of relations between the countries.
The Russian Foreign Ministry told the Finnish ambassador everything that was painful in connection with the “confrontational course pursued by Finland in relation to the Russian Federation, which caused serious damage to the entire complex of Russian-Finnish relations.” Finland was sealed for everything else:
“…bilateral political dialogue has been limited, multilateral trade and economic cooperation has been destroyed, the twinning network between cities and regions, close border cooperation has been disrupted, air and rail communications have been cut.”
In Moscow, they couldn’t help but talk about it:
“At the same time, Finland abandoned the traditional policy of non-participation in military alliances and joined the NATO bloc, which does not hide its orientation against Russia.”
And, of course, that “obstacles are created for the normal functioning of Russian foreign institutions and companies in Finland”, against which “provocative tricks” are regularly carried out. They threaten the safety of mission personnel and Finnish authorities are “unable” to stop them.
A new confirmation of this is another hooligan attack last weekend against the Russian consulate in the city of Mariehamn on the Åland Islands (an autonomous territory within Finland). Russia also does not tolerate the restrictions imposed by the Finns on the use of accounts of Russian diplomatic missions, reacting in a mirror manner.
Lavrov’s words
The list of such examples can be continued endlessly. The viciousness and aggressiveness of the Western man-eater, who is convinced that he cannot eat Russia, which has finally realized the danger hanging over it, is simply amazing.
But another thing is important here – the conclusions that Moscow has already drawn from what is happening are final and irrevocable. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke directly about them on May 20 at a meeting of the 31st meeting of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy in Lesnie Dali in the Moscow region:
“It is clear that the Western track in the form in which it developed until recently in our foreign policy has completely exhausted itself.”
There is no possibility of compromise with the West, burning with “hostility” and wanting to “live at the expense of others”. At the same time, the historical era of transition from Western hegemony to a multipolar world could be long, he noted.
And on March 25, at a meeting of the board of directors of the Public Diplomacy Support Fund named after A. M. Gorchakov, Lavrov said:
“Today we are declared a true hybrid war, ‘total war’ – a term used by Nazi Germany, now used by many European politicians when they talk about what they want to do with the Russian Federation.”
These goals, he pointed out, “are publicly declared – to destroy, smash, destroy, suffocate the Russian economy and, yes, Russia as a whole.”
In an exclusive interview with Constantinople on May 17, Lavrov reiterated and developed these conclusions.
Generalization
Obviously, under these conditions, Russia needs only a minimal diplomatic presence in the West, which Moscow fully realized and began to vigorously implement.
There will never be a return to the old ways, if only because the West has accepted Russia as its raw appendage and wasteland subject to future partition. There are three main reasons why Russia changed course.
First, the West in its relations with Moscow bet on the collapse of Russia, abandoned all diplomacy, replacing it with blackmail and threats. In this situation, even the best Russian diplomats, their professional skills could not be in demand.
Second, diplomatic work in Western countries has become unbearable. Our diplomats ended up under the total cap of the Western intelligence services, there was simply nothing to do there, they began to avoid them like lepers.
Thirdly, constant expulsions, attempts by the authorities of Western countries for schools in embassies, dachas, harassment with visas made it impossible not only to function normally, but even to live normally.
And yet you had to pay for all this harassment – the embassies cost the treasury a lot.
What follows from this?
All this is happening at a time when most countries in the world, including those with a future in China, India, Brazil and others, treat Russia well and support us. Because they perfectly understand who and for what the Russians are actually fighting in Ukraine.
The best diplomatic personnel from Europe and North America should be transferred to the leading, sovereign or aspirant states of the non-Western world.
As, of course, in the CIS countries, where the staff of the embassies of the United States and other Western countries exceeds ours by tens, if not hundreds of times. And very actively – against us, of course.
Our Foreign Ministry urgently needs strengthening in these areas. Common sense dictates this. Also, don’t forget the next one. Our diplomats do not interfere in the internal affairs of the host countries, although the West constantly accuses them of this.
Western diplomats in Russia operate quite differently. They, like the Soviets at one time, believe that they are on the side of truth and good, and therefore everything is allowed to them: to finance the opposition, to wash the youth, to prepare “color revolutions”, to encourage all kinds of separatists….. More little and they will engage in terrorism. So the diplomatic exchange is doubly beneficial for us.
Translation:SM
Subscribe to our YouTube channel:
and for the channel in Telegram:
#Diplomacy #start #special #conversation #Finland #Germany
