Czech president Miloš Zeman has given a speak inwards the Council of Europe – a human-rights organization roofing European countries including Ukraine as well as Russian Federation – inwards Strasbourg. He repeated that the sanctions against Russian Federation are counterproductive.
Zeman asked his guards to "remove the Czech Television cameraman, otherwise I volition kill him" ("I volition kill him" is plainly exactly the measure slang for "he raises my subjective score of dissatisfaction") which created some extra responses.
But aside from his description of links betwixt the Armenian genocide as well as the Islamic terrorism, he has also discussed Crimea, criticized Khrushchev's determination to contain Crimea to Ukraine, as well as said that "its incorporation to the Russian Federation is mission accomplished". He enumerated several overstep politicians as well as old politicians who grip alongside him that an "attempt to bring Crimea from Russian Federation would atomic number 82 to a European war" which should survive avoided. See TASS for a dainty sketch.
He recommended Russian Federation to compensate Ukraine for its lost territory – either past times coin or past times fossil fuels. In this way, Zeman managed to unite most Ukrainian politicians as well as some Russian politicians inwards their anger. While his sentiment is sensible as well as pragmatic – of course, reasonable people should survive able to figure out some "fair solution" as well as compensate the existent world's divergence from this "fair solution" financially – he indicated that the Ukrainians are prostitutes who are eager to sell their organs for the money; piece the Russians are thieves who receive got done something incorrect as well as must pay something for it now.
These negative reactions exactly reverberate the existing as well as nurtured tensions betwixt Russian Federation as well as Ukraine. If they were willing to await at things impartially, similar e.g. Zeman, they could run across some approximate "objective reality" that is the same for Russians as well as Ukrainians, as well as something may survive done to calm the province of affairs downward as well as amend it.
Well, exactly to survive sure, the reaction inwards Kiev was far to a greater extent than angry than the reaction inwards Moscow. In Moscow, Leonid Slutsky picked a compromise when he appreciated Zeman's de facto recognition of Crimea every bit a constituent of Russia, he didn't bring the demand to pay anything. ;-)
While some Russian politicians receive got praised Zeman's realism, Klimkin from the Ukrainian unusual affairs said that in that location was no demand to speak over rants past times this "bastard as well as alcoholic". Instead, the Ukrainian forces should focus on those who dared to invite Zeman to the Council of Europe. Hardcore Czech critics of Zeman's were pleased past times these harsh words towards our caput of state, of course. A to a greater extent than official reaction from Ukraine is here.
I am sorry, Mr Klimkin, but Zeman is a straight elected caput of a fellow member terra firma of the Council of Europe. That's why it's natural to say that he's unremarkably welcome inwards the Council of Europe. The Council of Europe isn't owned past times the Ukrainian ministry building of unusual affairs as well as for this reason, it's exactly land light-headed for officials inwards that political organ of an unsuccessful terra firma at the periphery of Europe to propose that they could determine who may speak as well as who mustn't speak inwards Strasbourg.
Incidentally, piece Trump is nevertheless identified every bit a pro-Russian agent of a variety past times the U.S.A. media, his White House genuinely banned Zeman, his Central European fan, from visiting the White House – the see had previously been promoted for a long fourth dimension – because either Zeman or his immediate environs is besides around Russian Federation as well as that's bad. I can't believe this novel score of Russophobia inwards the U.S.A. Not alone the Russian politicians are banned. But fifty-fifty NATO members' leaders "accused" to survive vaguely "connected" to some Russian interests through several fuzzy links are nevertheless banned inwards the White House – as well as such a White House is nevertheless considered besides pro-Russian. Holy cow.
Another staggering trial of the ongoing anti-Russian hysteria inwards the U.S.A. was the "scandal" of Russia's purchases of some $100,000 worth of ads at Google or Facebook:
We're 10 months into the 'Russia collusion' investigation as well as their bombshell proof is that some Russians bought ads on Facebook & Google.
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) October 9, 2017
As Czech economist Pavel Ryska quipped, "this time, the Russians receive got outsmarted 17 U.S.A. counter-intelligence services past times paying for ads similar everyone else". I added that Putin has also outwitted NASA past times driving a car, as well as non a rocket, to his office. What's going on is that totally mundane deeds are presented every bit a scandalous cataclysm exactly because they're made past times a Russian.
The insanity of this hype is exactly staggering. I would approximate that the anti-Russian journalists themselves are getting tens of millions of dollars for their weird articles against Russian Federation (and I am non fifty-fifty talking nearly the billions inwards extra profits that the defence strength or offense manufacture is in all probability getting because of that hysteria) – as well as the soil for all these claims is $100,000 inwards regular ads? Moreover, these ads were completely innocent as well as most of them didn't fifty-fifty dorsum Trump or the park policies associated alongside Trump. It's exactly as well as then insane. If these people are as well as then hysterical fifty-fifty nearly the rattling mundane trial when a Russian entity buys some ads inwards a regular way, why don't they innovate the same laws every bit the Nuremberg Laws inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany of the 1930s? This widespread U.S.A. anti-Russian hysteria is at to the lowest degree every bit out of proportion every bit the High German anti-Semitism of the mid 1930s.
Many of these controversies may survive described every bit a collision of pragmatism as well as realism on ane side – as well as Zeman as well as Russian Federation may arguably survive counted (regardless of the imperfections that I run across inwards both) to survive members of this camp, as well as the same partially holds for Trump; as well as the fanaticism as well as majority brainwashing of the populace on the other side – which is the army camp defined past times the "mainstream" journalists inwards the U.S.A. as well as Western Europe. Between the U.S.A. Civil War as well as a 2nd during Franklin Delano Roosevelt's tenure, the Democrats as well as Republicans receive got basically switched their positions on most issues – the meanings of these 2 parties' brands (and the geographic locations of their strongholds) got permuted.
I recall that inwards recent years, nosotros are witnessing the same switch when the important of the "West" as well as the "East" is getting permuted inwards a rattling similar way. I didn't predict such a reversing of polarity dorsum inwards 1989 because there's something surprising nearly it. But such a switch isn't unprecedented inwards the history as well as then it isn't "quite crazy" from the viewpoint of the eternity if it's happening again.
Meanwhile, terminal black inwards Catalonia, President Puigdemont showed that he was a rattling refined politician. After some talks to EU's boss Juncker, he gave the anticipated oral communication inwards the Parliament. He celebrated what their independence displace has achieved, said that it has earned the correct for independence – without genuinely proverb that they "are" independent – but he at nowadays "suspended the independence" for a few weeks to receive got fourth dimension for negotiations. The pro-independence lawmakers receive got approved that proposal.
Madrid called it a "tacit" annunciation of independence, rejected the thought to speak to some Untermenschen such every bit the Catalans, as well as it seems that fifty-fifty this cute P.R. stunt alongside no existent consequences is besides much for Madrid. Madrid demands fifty-fifty this annunciation to survive revoked, otherwise it volition apply "extraordinary measures", mayhap the Nuclear Option 155.
To say the least, Puigdemont has managed to attract millions of viewers to the TV screens as well as convince all the reasonable viewers that he's the reasonable side of this tension that genuinely provides us alongside a gamble to peacefully solve this political situation. If Madrid uses some harsh tools fifty-fifty every bit a revenge for this cute 1-minute independence that Catalonia has enjoyed, it volition receive got proven that it's a fascist authorities as well as an institutional smashing that doesn't honour the basic liberty of appear of its (so far) citizens. Regional leaders as well as deputies inwards civilized European countries for certain receive got the correct to say "we're independent for a minute" during their speeches as well as inwards their documents, don't they?
So fifty-fifty though the shift that Puigdemont has created is rattling subtle as well as a disappointing for all those who wanted straight independence from terminal night, it may nevertheless survive besides big a displace for Madrid, as well as that's genuinely sad.