Lieutenant-General Herbert McMaster sang his swan song. A little more than a year he held on as adviser to the US President Donald Trump on national security. Leaving, he decided to remind everyone once again about the terrible threat posed by Russia and personally by Vladimir Putin. The ardent speech about the "old and new forms of aggression" that Moscow uses to undermine the foundations of "international peace and stability", he delivered in a blithe audience - in the presence of high representatives of the Baltic republics. According to him, it was Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania that were the first victims of the Russian attack in cyberspace and social networks, and it was the US that had put their shoulder on them and helped preserve their sovereignty. And it will always be so, promised McMaster. "Mr. Putin probably believes he is winning the new battlefield. Perhaps he believes that our free nations are too weak and will not respond to his provocation. He's wrong.

Russian aggression strengthens our firmness and our confidence, "said McMaster, whose speech is published on the website of the White House. He backed up his words with "evidence": he recalled that "last month, Russia used a nerve agent for military purposes during the assassination attempt, endangering the lives of more than 130 people, including several children". He pointed out that this chemical attack occurred in Europe for the first time since the Second World War, and this is an attempt on the sovereignty of the United Kingdom. And then he continued literally on the list presented by London the other day in the presentation on the Skripal case. In general, after this speech it became clear why Trump decided to say goodbye to an advisor.

What recommendations can it give to a person who does not know the operational information? After all, by the time McMaster was pouring poison, London had already admitted that he had no reason to blame Moscow for producing Novik gas, and the Foreign Office deleted messages with hasty conclusions from their accounts. However, the hawk McMaster, apparently, digests the information for a long time and is not able to reorient on the go. April 9, he will be replaced by John Bolton - another American hawk. Only enemies he has more - enemies around.