Russia (bbabo.net), - If yesterday's plot did not exist in European politics, then it would be worth inventing it, everything is so put in place. Two major European meetings the day before - in Moscow, Putin and Orban, in Kiev, Zelensky and Johnson. The fate of Europe is being discussed without exaggeration.

In the first case, we are talking about energy security and uninterrupted supplies of Russian gas to European consumers, cooperation on vaccines to effectively counter the coronavirus pandemic on the continent, and the development of trans-European transport infrastructure. Key message: the more cooperation, the less confrontation.

In the second - about the supply of weapons and the deployment of additional military contingents, about new "destructive" sanctions, about the impossibility of fulfilling the Minsk agreements in the face of "external aggression" and about containing Russia in the context of an imminent war. The path to cooperation can only be paved by an escalation of confrontation.

Both Orban and Johnson call themselves peacekeepers. In the first case, the mission was clearly a success, since two leaders gathered in Moscow, defending the national interests of their countries not in opposition to, but in conjunction with the interests of Europe. Therefore, specific agreements have been reached that will work for years and decades to come. In the second, it failed, because in Kiev two politicians mired in internal strife were talking to each other, each of whom tried to solve his own problems to the detriment of national, and even more common European ones. The added value of the meeting tends to zero.

And now I can easily predict today's reaction to yesterday's mise-en-scene from Brussels and other Western capitals. The meeting in Moscow will be declared divisive - Orban will be accused of betraying the European idea and Euro-Atlantic solidarity, and Putin will once again be suspected of seeking to blow up Europe from within. The meeting in Kiev will be heralded as a chance for peace that should not be missed. But which must be reinforced by new sanctions and the strengthening of NATO's military presence on the Eastern European flank.

To paraphrase the catchphrase of the late twentieth century, which at that time referred to Russia, one would like to exclaim: "Europe, change your mind, you've gone crazy!".

In conclusion - a screen from the nightly news feed, where two messages by chance (or not?) stood next to each other. There are no words.

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