Author of quotes: Sergey A. Karaganov. Page 2

The poles are desperate people, they are ready to hang himself, only to annoy Russia.

It was outrageous, a purely symbolic bombing, designed to show that our Western partners are not "paper tigers". But they are actually once again stressed that they are "paper tigers".

The main reason for the defeat of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s was that the people of our "one sixth of the land" was poorly nourished, and the country's elite is split, and thought himself defective. <...> Today, the bulk of elite United, feels, in contrast to the Soviet, moral rectitude, and the people fed. This is the first. Secondly, there is the exhausting arms race, which was embroiled in the USSR: Russia spends on rearmament only a fraction of the funds that were allocated at the time of the Soviet Union. Do not put pressure on the Russian budget and the monstrous expense of maintaining a huge Empire - the countries of mozorientation in the "third world". There are still five or six indicators which make it possible to carry out measurements to verify the difference between that situation and the present. <...> will Indicate three key factors: the first is China, the last cold war he was the enemy of the USSR. We really were "polokragen". Now, Beijing's de facto ally of Russia, whereas the recent actions of trump in relation to Beijing is well known. America went on simultaneous hostile containment of Russia and China. Russia - the nearest, PRC - vtoroocherednoy, but however main goal. The second factor is the condition of the West. 30 years ago it was booming, now - in a state of rapid decline. Third - the existence in Russia of experience of the previous cold war.

But who thinks about decency? Authority of the West in hysterics because they do not govern their societies, on the one hand, and because they only now realize the simple truth - their present liberal democracy rooted in the past. Once in the USSR talked about communism as about the future of all mankind and very painfully reacted to any evidence that it is not. Today the West it becomes obvious that liberal democracy is also not the future of mankind. It (the future) is not defined, and there are many options of how it will be built.

If I'm being totally dead serious on such charges, you need to cease diplomatic relations, to advance the fleet and begin to threaten because it is a Declaration of war. Instead, our laugh. Which is better? Especially, I think, our partners not worthy of a serious reply yet.

There are two major objective circumstances: the first is that the Western elite has lost control over its own people. They need an enemy in order for this control to return, primarily through suppression and supply control of social media. <...> using external threats to try to wring excessive democracy at home, democracy, which is out of control. And secondly, the West has entered into the endgame at the end of its world domination, which lasted five hundred years. Well this is sad! People are protected. They - tears of rage. We should understand that. Well and even, perhaps, partly to sympathize with. We, too, are the occasions in life was difficult. <...> They are trying to consolidate on anti-Russian basis... <...> in order to regain control over their own political process.

Nuclear weapons are horrible. However, even worse are people who kill without any nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, this is what happened in the recent past, hardly weakened the factor of nuclear deterrence. Indeed, the experience of the 1990s - beginning of 2000-ies has confirmed that the disappearance of the threat of use of nuclear weapons as a deterrent in the rivalry between the two leading world superpowers contributed, sadly, not peace and prosperity but all over the world, and the emergence of a series of military conflicts resulting in mass casualties. We saw, as a democratic country destroy thousands of people in different parts of the world - in Serbia, Iraq and so on. Of course, I support people who want to eliminate nuclear weapons. But God forbid that they win in this pursuit! Yes, God will not allow this, in fact it after two bloody world wars that claimed the lives of millions of people, gave man nuclear weapons as a deterrent to this nightmare will never happen again.

Russia's emphasis on the protection of concepts such as honor, national dignity, courage. These values for many Europeans seem out of date, from their dangerous past. One of those wars which the Europeans waged and lost. But Russia is a terrible price, won. And ready to defend their sovereignty and values, and strength. In addition, these values will probably need, and Europe. In the conditional "world of Putin" it is inconceivable that in the mass, men do not protect their own and other women as it was in Cologne during the disgrace of immigrants. But Europeans, apparently afraid that a new hard world, which largely represents the Russia of today.