If you look at the world, you see panic and crush, but if you look closely, an unexpected thought comes to mind: life has become too good to live it. Now it is imperative to complicate and demonize it, and keep people in a constant state of spasm.

Well, everyone is already used to the pandemic. Indeed, people got sick, died and continue to do so. But somehow a meta-analysis showed that excess mortality due to quarantine, which was introduced by almost all countries, decreased by only 0.2%, but the consequences for the global economy and for the psyche of the population are almost fatal. You could have guessed before.

Now we are at war. Too peaceful life on prosperous continents. Yes, somewhere in Yemen and Syria it is always on fire, but this does not invigorate the European and American audience enough. For tone, you need a different picture, but where can I get it? In this case, there is Russia, which can simply be declared an aggressor. Based on what? And so it should be, and you can’t refute it in any way. As an object of aggression, you need to take a country with which nothing good will happen - fail state as is - and which is not very close to the European nobility. In other words, don't feel sorry for her. She seems to be right here at hand and evokes some kind of sympathy, but they don’t take her into the family of privileged peoples, they only tease her with prospects.

And so the nights begin - one more disturbing than the other. After all, just think, the British tabloid The Sun on February 15 published a note in which it indicated that the “invasion” of Russian troops into Ukraine is scheduled for February 16 at exactly 01:00 GMT, that is, 03:00 Kiev time. It is clear that The Sun is exactly what a tabloid is, it is not typical for people with the remnants of critical thinking to take seriously what is written there. And this very material looks something like a fifteen-year-old headline in one Russian "yellow" - "A fish with the head of Baskov raped a sailor." This is ridiculous. But it caused a whole series of consequences.

Firstly, the same tabloid included on its page a live broadcast from cameras installed on the Kiev Maidan.

Secondly, Joe Biden - this is the whole president of the United States - handed over a statement that in the event of an "invasion" he would postpone all his affairs.

Thirdly, thousands of people did not sleep at night - they watched the live broadcast. What did they want to see there?

Fourthly, the next morning - after the most restless night experienced - The Sun changed the material to another, in which he explained that the "invasion" could begin at any moment!

What does all this tell us? Rather, it is about the fact that in order for political decisions to be made in the world, for movements of peoples to take place, for nervous breakdowns and mass hysteria to occur, no events are needed anymore. Indeed, nothing happened. Nothing. Yes, there are military exercises. So they more or less constantly pass, in a variety of scales and configurations. They are not taking place where some other countries would like to? To be frank, no one will be held accountable for this.

And in this not bad and rather comfortable world, absolutely nothing globally tragic has happened over the past couple of months. But from this "nothing" an endless string of consequences is already stretching.

For some reason, Russia is to blame for everything. What is everyone? And nothing, nothing happened. It does not matter. It is important to put the seal of general disapproval on the country.

Ministers and prime ministers of foreign states arrive in Moscow every day. Some of them are seated at prohibitively long tables because guests refuse to take the notorious PCR tests, others are not good at geography. Also, after all, people are busy, maybe they have more important things to do.

The Western press daily frustrates the world community with articles about how Russia is attacking Ukraine. With no one attacking anyone. It's nothing, says the press. The thing is that the soil on the territory of Belarus has not yet had time to freeze. As soon as it freezes enough for the passage of military equipment, it will attack. It's nothing that according to forecasts in the west of Belarus in the next couple of weeks it will be +6, and then it will get warmer, because spring will come. It does not matter.

It is important that there is a picture - and in it the image is paramount in relation to the depicted. The picture depicts what is not. This is a classic simulacrum - a copy devoid of the original. This is a new round of postmodernism, where the consequences of a phenomenon appear in the mass consciousness and in objective reality, not only before the phenomenon itself, but also in its complete absence. By the way, about the same collision arose in the old full-length cartoon "South Park", where the United States blamed neighboring Canada for all the troubles of the younger generation. Why? And so it is necessary, and do not argue.Now we are often told that Russia is to blame. Russia claims a serious role in the world, even greatness, and this claim has to be paid for. But something - historical experience and common sense - suggest that even if you give up claims to greatness or a serious role, it will not get better. Just imagine someone apologizing for all this slander. Yes, even for one newspaper headline. No, it's impossible to imagine, it won't happen.

But the fact that a large and resource-rich country with a fully built and operating infrastructure for the extraction, logistics and administration of these resources may be of interest for the contact and non-contact division of property - this is just very easy to imagine.

However, there was nothing. In this reality, consequences have nothing to do with causes.

The author expresses his personal opinion, which may not coincide with the position of the editors.

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