Klaus On Shevarnadze's Rt Show

Viewers alongside mutual sense tin terminate distinguish the nuances

Czech ex-president Václav Klaus traveled to Moscow because Russian became some other linguistic communication inward which his together with his aide Weigl's lately penned mass almost the "Migration Period v2.0" (which has a removal van on the embrace inward Czech together with some other languages which utilisation the same word for migration together with moving) then he used the chance to hand an interview for SophieCo, an RT show.


Web page of the demo together with transcript, YouTube backup

In Fall 2015, he already talked to RT's Oksana Boyko at the Worlds Apart show. I intend that both immature women create their project really good but both direct maintain shown some sort of unfamiliarity alongside the intellectual discourse that Klaus together with similar people represent.

Sophie Shevarnadze, the granddaughter of the well-known Soviet government minister of unusual affairs Eduard Sh., is considered the hottest adult woman inward Russian Federation past times many people. I intend she's primarily really smart together with her business-like small haircut emphasized that dot together with reduced the room for distractions. ;-)




I similar to lookout adult man these interviews. At the same moment, I would state that it was inward no manner a dear fest. (Oksana Boyko has arguably tried to acquit inward a to a greater extent than friendly, submissive manner but Shevarnadze decided to acquit every bit a tough, maybe fifty-fifty hostile, professional.) Those who bill Klaus together with others of beingness puppets of Russian Federation etc. could direct maintain noticed. I intend that a sensitive together with intelligent viewer must direct maintain detected dozens of clear places where Klaus together with Shevarnadze weren't on the same frequency.




Before I larn to those serious points, permit me elevate some trivialities. Klaus sometimes tells stories whose extra message seems to hold out how connected to the world's most famous people he is, how Obama said something special to Klaus, together with then on. I am sometimes proverb similar stories inward which Klaus plays the purpose of Obama then I am connected to the world's most powerful people alongside a unmarried intermediate step.

Klaus' English linguistic communication sounds really comprehensible together with his thinking is clear together with all of it is great, peculiarly for a mortal who hasn't done languages inward whatever professional person way. But at that topographic point are idiosyncrasies inward his English, maybe analogous to mine. When I was giving my get-go seminar inward the States – at Ohio State University inward 1998 – my Slovak friend Zuzana S. who was a "natural English linguistic communication speaker" – maybe precisely similar Sophie Shevarnadze is – was listening to my utter together with wrote a listing of some 100 words that I had to pronounce differently etc. (Sophie Shevarnadze is fluent inward Georgian, Russian, English, together with French together with conversant inward Italian; her pronunciation of Klaus' Czech scream was also right which is also rare.)

If I were a closed adviser of Klaus', I would belike elbow grease to insist on the same handling together with fixes. He uses the word "rational" really oftentimes then I would suggest alternatives (similarly alongside "Again, ..."). Moreover, the get-go "a" inward "rational" should be pronounced every bit a long one. There are numerous similar examples ("arrogance", non "arrogancy"; "th" non "dz"; "premature" is pronounced "prýməČŮŮr", NOT "PRÝmejčr"; what is changed past times migration is "demographics", non "demography" – the latter is the scientific discipline on the former; "awakening", non "awaning"; "curtain" is pronounced closer to "krr-ten", non "kertýn") but there's 1 omnipresent word that Klaus pronounces completely incorrectly: the euro. It's the "oiro". He may hold out doing it deliberately. The euro is pronounced "oiro" inward German linguistic communication together with Klaus speaks German linguistic communication really well. But inward English, the "euro" is pronounced every bit a "jůro", similar if you lot scream at the get-go cosmonaut, "Jůro Gagarine".

But let's provide to the serious matters.

RT is owned past times the Kremlin together with it's pretty much impressive that the granddaughter of that absolutely Soviet-Georgian official ended upwards beingness this unbelievably Western together with Cosmopolitan. But it's non necessarily precisely positive. I intend that at the end, Sophie Shevarnadze is genuinely fairly to a greater extent than or less the "consensus of the Western politically right mainstream media". She's to a greater extent than tolerant together with capable of listening but I intend that at the end, her beliefs aren't that different.

In the interview, 1 could hear that the 2 people had really unlike opinions what is the "normal view" almost lots of political questions. Shevarnadze basically assumed that every European, including Klaus, must hold out thinking almost ways to brand the European Union stronger inward some way. This is belike criterion both inward Russian Federation together with America. Both Russians together with Americans discover it irresistible to intend of Europe every bit some other unified ability similar to themselves.

Well, Klaus doesn't desire to brand the European Union stronger or to a greater extent than unified. In his view, Europe is intrinsically heterogeneous together with this unification is so unnatural. If the European Union could hold out abolished or dramatically reformatted, it would hold out proficient news. Shevarnadze patently thinks that Europe should direct maintain the mutual currency, the unified Schengen zone, together with fifty-fifty a mutual army. Klaus considers the Euro every bit good every bit the Schengen expanse to hold out mistakes – mistakes that began to pile upwards starting from the 1992 Maastricht treaty. And he thinks that the mutual European regular army is a featherbrained thought together with there's fifty-fifty non whatever pregnant need which is why this thought hasn't moved forwards much for decades.

And the park disagreements showed upwards inward the word of the migration, too. Shevarnadze used the word "refugees" for the people who are arriving from the Muslim Blue Planet to Europe. She did then pretty much automatically – it looks similar she has never questioned whether it was the right description. It fifty-fifty looks similar she has never met anyone who would enquiry the word. Well, Klaus was correcting her. They are "migrants", non "refugees". Almost all of them could remain inward their homeland – peculiarly because most of them come upwards from countries that aren't sense wars right similar a shot – but they only wanted a to a greater extent than prosperous life which is why they chose an optimal, wealthy, generous goal for their journey. In this sense, almost all of them are "economic migrants". After all, economical considerations direct maintain been the dominant argue of people's motion from 1 solid reason to some other for quite some time.

There direct maintain been points inward which they were close, too. I don't desire to claim otherwise. But fifty-fifty when it came to topics where they belike "generally agreed", the degrees of beliefs differed. For example, the questions together with answers indicated that Klaus considers the thought that "Russia has hacked the States presidential election" to hold out to a greater extent than ludicrous than what Shevarnadze thinks. This view of Klaus isn't whatever ad hoc novelty. He's ever believed that the nations should – together with ultimately create – create upwards one's heed almost their fate. In 1948, the Czechoslovak communist coup was mainly driven past times our communists precisely similar the 1989 Velvet Revolution was mostly driven past times the non-communist, oftentimes ordinary Czechoslovak people. The States may direct maintain intervened inward the Middle East but the internal dynamics together with conflicts were ever to a greater extent than of import together with the same was truthful inward Ukraine. So the thought that the "U.S. voters couldn't direct maintain been overwritten past times some Russian remote controls" isn't novel – it's genuinely precisely some other instance of a rather universal wisdom how the Blue Planet industrial plant according to Klaus (and me). The Blue Planet mostly respects the laws of locality. ;-)

But my dot is that the break of obvious differences betwixt Klaus together with Shevarnadze is then high that the people who automatically position the Kremlin alongside the RT together with all the journalists at RT together with all the people who direct maintain ever been interviewed past times RT etc. must hold out incredibly stupid. They must completely misunderstand or hold out completely unaware of a keen bulk of the political questions that are relevant today – because whatever dyad of people whom they position every bit parts of the uniform "Russian puppet show" differs inward roughly 50% of these topics.