"In November, I had a resonant post that for February and March the West (including Ukraine) will prepare several important but not critical measures that will be a clear message to Putin and, most importantly, his entourage, that the West would prefer you See the Gorbachev scenario in the March elections. Obviously, Moscow did not listen (and it was very difficult to technically do it, since with the departure of Putin, the whole criminal current system of power in the Russian Federation could collapse).

Well, from the Packet Skripal began a new stage. Russian authorities are increasingly referred to as the "regime" by officials in the West. There are fewer ceremonies, more demonization. Ahead of the really painful sanctions - sanctions to the closed part of the "Kremlin list" in the US, arrests of property in Britain, sanctions against Ross. duty and so on.

In summer, at the NATO Summit and the G-7 Summit in Canada, this stage will be cemented and consolidated as the only possible.

As an example, I will bring you yesterday's speech of the head of the British Foreign Ministry Johnson.

Until today, there was still no such thing that the second person of the member country of the Seven and NATO, a nuclear power, one of the leaders of the free World - Britain, talked about Russia in such a tone and key, and listed all the main crimes of the Russian Federation in one package - the annexation of the Crimea and the invasion of the Crimea Ukraine, chemical weapons in Syria, downed Boeing, attempted coup in Montenegro, interference in elections in the West, an attempt on the Skripal in England, etc.. This is an analogue of Churchill's speech about the beginning of the Cold War, "summed Ponomar.