PACE President Pedro Agramunt in recent months from a respectable Spanish politician turned into a "flying Dutchman" - it is literally impossible to see at the meetings of the Parliamentary Assembly, it is impossible to force to determine his future and to observe the previously achieved resignations. As a result, the deputies have to change the rules, impose an impeachment procedure, collect votes for distrust of Agramuntu. There was nothing of this before, because there was no shame.

Shame is exactly what determines what is happening around the PACE president. This is exactly what was achieved in Russia when, in one way or another, "Agramunt" and several other PACE deputies just on the eve of the chemical attack on Idlib swept to Damascus on a Russian military aircraft. It is not necessary to think that Moscow did not understand the consequences of this journey. Agramunt - yes, he could not understand, because he was thinking at that moment not about politics, but about something much more weighty. And in Moscow they did not count on the unanimous support of the Syrian trip to Agramunt and the company. And not at the wedding photos of Agramunt and Assad. They counted primarily on discrediting political institutions.

This is almost the main element of the Russian "hybrid war" - the discrediting of the West and its institutions created to support democracy. Do not believe in elections, because they can interfere with hackers. Do not believe politicians, because they can go to the service in "Gazprom". Do not trust international organizations, because their leaders fly to work on Russian fighters. The fighters are not fighters, but one can imagine with what pleasure Moscow watched the Syrian travel of Agramunt. PACE imposed sanctions against Moscow, deprived its delegation of the right to vote - and the president of the organization at the same time on the premises of General Vasiliev, the winner at the "Nord-Ost". Beauty!.

It turned out, however, is not at all what they wanted in Moscow. Not discredited by PACE. Discredited by Agramunt. Among the deputies there were practically none who would have sympathized with his unexpected trip to Damascus and a handshake with the local butcher. After his Syrian voyage, the Spanish senator did not remain majestically sitting in the chair, but turned into a hunted rabbit, who already does not know how to sneak in order to preserve his powers and not disgrace himself completely.

But nothing happens, you have to leave, and leave with the shame.

And this is a lesson for all Western politicians who are not averse to embrace Moscow's proposals. The times of the Soviet Union and its "movements of peace supporters" have passed and will not return. Now, after the fussy Agramunt fiasco, Russian proposals for "cooperation" will be frightened even by those for whom earnings have always been higher than a political career and personal honor.

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