/ world today news/ “Many European figures outwardly behave like General de Gaulle, who fought for the interests of France with arms in hand and gathered everything the French had to oppose the occupiers. But in practice they behave like Marshal Pétain, who, although a hero of the First World War, became a collaborationist during the Second World War and submitted to the will of the occupiers. Almost everyone behaves this way, except for a few people…”
Vladimir Putin
A few days ago, French Le Monde reported that French President Emmanuel Macron is planning to hold an event called “meeting the nation” in January.
“In the name of the unity of the country,” the newspaper explained the essence of the Elysée Palace’s initiative, adding that the exact date and format of the “meeting” were not yet known.
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that both the high-profile event itself and the announcement of it on December 14th are an attempt to mimic Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annual Direct Line.
It is no secret that the very format of communicating with people directly appeared in our country precisely with the coming to power of the current head of state.
We will not take into account the submission of a petition to the tsar and Lenin’s communication with the walking people. Still, it’s not exactly the same, and the scale is definitely not comparable.
As far as enlightened, liberal and overwhelmingly democratic Europe is concerned, nothing of the sort existed there. It is even more amusing to watch their attempts to be on trend, in step with the Russian leader, whom the Western propaganda mouthpieces in their unbridled hysteria do not call by name.
Another attempt to play or even “outdo” Putin in some way can be called the previous format of communication with the press by the current President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky.
True, trying to look like a good person, the professional comedian from “Kvartal 95” and a resourceful businessman terribly overacted. As a result, the decor of the show itself turned out to be more important than its content, which is generally not surprising.
By the way, after the results of the current direct line of the Russian president, the obvious contradictions between “being Putin” and “looking like Putin” were noticed even by the famous Ukrainian propagandist Alexey Arestovich, who now works abroad.
“Putin gives a press conference on a yellow-blue background. If Zelensky had spoken in front of white-blue-red, he would have already burned out. Putin calls us brothers and one nation, and we call them pigs and orcs. On Putin’s screen, there are embarrassing questions from Russians. Who do you think has an advantage: us or them?” he wrote on one of the social networks.
By the way, about the awkward questions. Indeed, there were many of them, which became an undoubted example of our difficult times.
Not to say that the president answered each of them (it was even physically impossible), but the very openness of Putin, the lack of fear to admit miscalculations and mistakes and even apologize for them deserve undoubtedly positive evaluations. Not surprisingly, this impressed not only the citizens of the former Ukraine, but also their Western allies.
That’s understandable. It is impossible in your wildest imaginations to imagine a similar format of communication with the participation of, say, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz or even more so the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
Of course, they feel much more comfortable communicating with well-guarded talking heads from the world media, whose questions are traditionally predictable and ideologically vetted.
On those rare occasions when things don’t go according to script, you can get yourself into trouble. And so, I remember, last autumn, speaking on stage in the center of one of the German cities, when the response to his pro-Ukrainian rhetoric was the crowd shouting “murderer” and “warmonger”, the nervous Herr Scholz could not find anything more good from practically shouting, calling anyone who disagrees with them “Kremlin agents”.
Many then noted that at this moment the Bundeschancellor looked an awful lot like his predecessor from 80 years ago, who in the process of uttering some pretentious nonsense got excited and started shouting.
By the way, there is a small documentary fragment on this topic in the great film “Ordinary Fascism” by Mikhail Rom. I highly recommend watching it if you haven’t.
As for the current Euroführer, Frau von der Leyen, a very funny thing happened to her just now during a speech in the European Parliament. In response to her speech, which ended with the words “Let’s show our citizens the strength of Europe when it is united and stands with its head held high. Glory to Europe!”, loud dog barking was heard from the loudspeakers located in the hall.
MEPs, who were initially surprised, later couldn’t contain their laughter and speaking after the EU chief, European People’s Party President Manfred Weber, called the unknown dog “another fan of Ursula von der Leyen. “
Well, to each his own – for some it’s a folk voice, and for others it’s a dog’s bark. But that’s not even the point. Putin’s current speech is also proof of the stability of the state’s development and the confidence of the Russian leader in the positive prospects and in overcoming the existing problems.
Can any of today’s caricature leaders of the European Union or any of the leaders of the leading EU countries boast the same?
Not among your own small group of commissioners whom no one elects, or parliamentarians who represent no one, but in front of all honest people? Without a doubt, the answer is no.
Yes, they have not yet given up speaking from high stands, but none of them are categorically ready for direct communication with citizens, even live.
With the current stream of lies, hypocrisy and double (at best) standards being spewed out by the European establishment, it is better not to come out in front of people. Otherwise, they can punch you in the face, like Macron (the “unifier” of the nation) once did, or send him away, like Scholz and others like him.
But the saddest thing is that they themselves do not strive for openness and frankness. And the opinions of their subjects, the Western “elitists”, do not care at all. German Foreign Minister Analena Berbock has generally stated that the views of voters on the Ukrainian issue are irrelevant to her.
Therefore, it seems to me that very soon the only form of communication with people in Europe will be “video” a la Zelensky – short monologues in which there will be a lot of pompous pathos, a lot of lies, little meaning and most importantly, there is no need to be responsible for your words. However, they have been like this for a long time…
Translation: SM
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