The price of peace and Biden's war

Putin confirmed that the participation of the state corporation Rosatom in the construction of nuclear power plants in Kazakhstan is possible, but the decision remains with Astana. This, as for the "peaceful atom." But the issues of nuclear and other weapons, confrontation between Russia and the West occupied representatives of the Russian media no less, the UtroNews correspondent reports.

Positions are strengthened, the approaches are the same

Putin said that the latest powerful weapons systems strengthen Russia's military position, but do not change Moscow's approaches to resolving the conflict in Ukraine. Putin previously named these conditions: the withdrawal of the Ukrainian armed forces from Donbass and Novorossiya; Kyiv's refusal to join NATO; lifting all Western sanctions against Moscow and establishing Ukraine's non-aligned and nuclear-free status.

In the meantime, Moscow can use Oreshnik to strike at military industry facilities or at decision-making centers in Kyiv. But this is not all that threatens Ukraine with destruction comparable to the consequences of nuclear weapons strikes on targets on its territory.

If Kyiv attempts to obtain nuclear weapons, plans to transfer such weapons to Kyiv, or attempts by the Kyiv regime to use a "dirty bomb," Russia will use all available means of destruction, the President warned.

During a meeting with journalists in Astana, the President once again recalled that attacks by Western weapons on Russia mean direct involvement of the West in the conflict in Ukraine, noted that after the use of the Oreshnik complex, the Russian Federation had already been attacked twice by ATACMS missiles.

The answer followed

Answers followed to these attacks. The Ministry of Defense reported that on the morning of November 28, a combined strike was launched using 90 missiles and 100 Geran-2 UAVs. As a result, 17 key objects of the military-industrial complex (MIC) of Ukraine were hit.

The attacks of the Iskander missiles in the Sumy region on November 25 destroyed five MLRS launchers. As a result of the Iskander strikes in the Novomikhaylovka area of ​ ​ Odessa region on November 25 and 26, two launchers with experimental ballistic missiles Grom-2, an installation and a transport-loading vehicle of the Ukrainian anti-ship complex Neptune were destroyed.

In Kharkov, on November 25, up to 40 foreign specialists were destroyed, mainly from the United States, in Odessa, 72 personnel of combat crews of unmanned sea drones were destroyed, including 9 French instructors and technical specialists.

In total, in recent days, 100 missiles of various types of basing and 466 unmanned aerial vehicles "Geran-2" were used to destroy targets in Ukraine, Donetsk and Kursk regions.

The RF Armed Forces constantly track airfields and areas of deployment, routes for moving means of using long-range Western weapons and "inflict fire damage on them." On November 17, Russian troops dealt a massive blow to energy and gas production facilities that ensure the operation of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex.

Issues of transition to negotiations

Vladimir Putin said when asked about escalation levels and prospects for building relations with the Trump administration: "Different options are possible. If the current president Biden believes that he, exacerbating the situation, increasing the degree of confrontation, creates conditions for the future administration, it is easy to get out of this situation, because the newly elected president will say: "This is not me, these are people who generally survived from the mind. I have nothing to do with this. Let's talk. " Of course, this is an option. It is possible that the current administration wants to create additional difficulties for the future. This is also possible. But, as far as I imagine the newly elected president, he is still a smart person and quite experienced, he seems to me to find a solution, especially after he passed such, say, a very serious test as the struggle to return to the White House. "

US President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Keith Kellogg for his assistant and US special envoy for Ukraine and Russia. During the president's first term, Kellogg was the vice president's national security aide. He promised to provide "peace through strength," echoing the words of Ronald Reagan, who led the US from 1981 to 1989 and used the concept of "peace through strength" as a symbol of his foreign policy.

Reagan argued that "the balance of power is an illusion of peace, peace must be sought through strength." Since then, a lot of water has flowed and the United States has faced a fundamental contradiction in relations with Russia. On the one hand, the collapse of the USSR created the illusion of global domination, strategic invulnerability and impunity in everything related to Russia's strategic interests.

On the other hand, over the past two decades, Russia has made progress towards the revival of economic, military and strategic potential, as well as international influence on a new basis. Keith Kellogg, as a security specialist, will have a difficult "educational" work with Trump and his administration on the restructuring of relations with Russia, which is very poorly represented in the United States.

Poisoned arrows in empty heads

"Empty heads" are not stupid people, but poorly informed. In the United States, the state of affairs within Russia is catastrophically bad. The niche of ignorance is filled by embittered Europeans, especially the British, as well as some immigrants from Russia.

Today, as the second Trump administration prepares to enter the White House, it would be naive to assume that the decision-making process on the crisis in Ukraine will be free of influence from London. Or the "English school" of Russophobia, which infected many specialists in the history of Russia, including former Soviet ones, who received the appropriate "education."

London "intellectuals" never gave up hope of the destruction of Russia. Their own country managed to burn, but they continue to deal with the destruction of Russia today. In particular, waging an information war. Trump and his team will have to free themselves from this influence.

One of the most striking examples of "poisoned arrows" sticking out in American heads is the article "The Price of a Bad World. The West is tired. Putin is not, "which appeared in Foreign Policy magazine for a reason. The main idea of ​ ​ this "foreign policy manifesto" is striking in its naive and flat categorical: "any deal with Moscow will be tantamount to the surrender of Ukraine and Western countries," the author says.

It is noteworthy that the article came out "from the pen" of Anastasia Edel, writer and author of the book "Russia: Putin's Platform: Empire, Revolution and the New Tsar." Edel is a linguist by profession and translator by profession, calls herself a social historian and specialist in Russia, teaches Russian politics and culture at the University of Berkeley.

She was born and raised in Krasnodar. Her mother worked at the Institute of Culture, and the girl herself did not work there for long after graduating from Kuban University. By 1995, Edel was 23 when she found herself in England on an MBA scholarship from the British Council.

In England, she met her future husband, a historian by profession, a US citizen and allegedly a native of a family of dissidents who moved to the United States.

My husband's father and grandfather worked in the Crocodile magazine, and he himself grew up somewhere, in a writers' cooperative, where Voinovich, Akhmadulina and Aksenov were neighbors.

Sachs can envy

Why, you ask, so many details about the author, linguist and translator, as well as the connoisseur of modern Russia, who teaches at Berkeley?

Anastasia Edel unexpectedly gained fame in Russia. Under the heading "A new chapter of the conflict in Ukraine was announced in the West," Edel relayed the main idea of ​ ​ the article to Lenta.ru, saying from the words of the writer that "after Trump takes office, a new chapter of the conflict will begin.... though Trump and his closest allies openly disparage Kyiv. " If neglected, why should "a new chapter begin?"

"After the election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States, Ukraine may face the threat of losing the support of its Western allies. According to sociologist and historian Anastasia Edel in his article published by Foreign Policy, this situation raises concerns, "the Novorossiya Agency reports. So I want to ask: Who fears "loss of support"?

Professionals, politicians and their advisers run through the pages of Foreign Policy. And this makes you uncomfortable. In 2012, the publication grew to a group (The FP Group) - it includes ForeignPolicy.com and the FP Events project ("FP Events"). Formally, the magazine is not associated with any political party and is an independent publication, but in 2016 supported Hillary Clinton in the presidential election. For the first time in 50 years of history.

The fame that Anastasia Edel received today in Russia can envy Jeffrey Sachs and Elon Musk. She herself, the story of her family, a curling book about Putin and the article "The Price of a Bad World. The West is tired. Putin - no "- this is part of the foundation on which the house of cards of ideas about Russia is built in American heads. That's what's dangerous!