Аннотация: The masters are fighting, the lads' forelocks (tufts) are cracking. A diplomatic sketch.
The masters are fighting, the lads' forelocks (tufts) are cracking. A diplomatic sketch.
Recent foreign policy developments have prompted reflections on diplomatic achievements.
One of the powers, which recently mentioned the assassination attempt on Archduke Ferdinand, and tried to teach life to all of Europe and the whole world ("we are ambitious people!", we obtained the Padishahs' importance look! - at someone's expense) found of herself in ally with very difficult partners.
These partners suddenly started shooting at each other.
According to the rules of the military alliance, it is necessary to provide assistance to the side that requests this assistance.
Whom to help?
To both at once? So it is necessary to find two generals at once, so that one general commanded Ivan Ivanovich, and the other - Ivan Nikiforovich.
However, Saltykov-Shchedrin described a man (muzhik) who fed two generals.
However, requests for military assistance are just a hypothesis, an assumption.
Before providing military assistance, you need to use the entire arsenal of diplomatic methods.
What kind of diplomatic methods could be used?
They immediately started talking (in media) about bringing in a peacekeeping contingent - it's good if one, otherwise two may be needed. And each peacekeeping contingent requires money. The clientele does not pay money! She doesn't always say "thank you". They used support and assistance, and then - as if nothing happened, they forgot and do not remember, and do not thank. They even spit ...
But there is no need to rush. Prior to the decision on the peacekeeping contingent, there will be active work on the use of a different methods of diplomacy - the allocation of funds, as well as - the provision of preferences of various types in various forms. However, upon close examination, all preferences can receive a monetary estimate. The digits, the sums will be very good.
What else?
There is also such a method: to offer a political client to build a nuclear power plant. Where will the client get the money for the construction of a nuclear power plant? And why does he need a nuclear power plant (the cost of a kilowatt-hour from a nuclear power plant more than the cost of a kilowatt-hour from renewable sources and from other non-nuclear sources)?
Beneficiaries don't need money! The nuclear power plant will be built on (using) the money of political losers.
In general, everything is very interesting. And the story with Archduke Ferdinand, and diplomatic achievements, and allies, and diplomatic methods.
The matter is not in a quarreling masters and not in a cracking of the lads' forelocks (tufts).
As they write in literary and journalistic works: "your money cried!". (Somewhere it decreases, but somewhere it arrives. Everything has its own deep meaning).
However, in all this fuss, it is important not to forget fill yourself up with importance and pretend to be a Padishah, and to start to teach the whole world ...
Explanation: "Паны дерутся - у холопов чубы трещат" ("The pans are fighting - the forelocks of the bondmen are cracking") - a common Russian-language proverb.
April 30, 2021 07:45
Translation from Russian into English: April 30, 2021 09:18.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский "Паны дерутся, у парубков чубы трещат. Дипломатический скетч".