US missile strike on the military base of Syrian government troops showed the failure of the foreign policy of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

About this in a blog on the website "Echo of Moscow" wrote a journalist Yevgeny Kiselev.

"The 59 American cruise missiles fired at the airbase in Syria on the orders of US President Donald Trump mean that Putin's foreign policy was covered not even by a copper basin, and that's a place whose name, alas, can not be spoken aloud - but you all know it. It was covered not only in Syria, "he said..

"The driving round the rounds around Trump turned out to be almost the biggest foreign policy failure for all Putin's years. Sanctions from Russia Trump is not going to shoot, on the contrary, if in Syria the case goes on, the United States promises new sanctions to introduce. The annexation of Crimea neither de jure nor even de facto the new American president is not going to admit, on the contrary, says that the Crimea should be returned to Ukraine. And now I also agree to be friends with China, and China does not seem to mind, "added Kiselev.

The journalist recalled that at the first meeting with Trump, Chinese leader Xi Jinping expressed understanding of American strikes at the airbase in Syria.

"And if we talk about who threw whom, then where were there at the time of the American missile attack the vaunted Russian air defense systems?" Russian generals had recently boasted to the whole world that the S-300 and S-400 covered the airspace over Syria with an impenetrable dome. And where is that dome? Yes, it's just that the Americans, as is known, warned the Russian side in advance of the impending missile strike. And to protect Assad, his Russian patrons did not, "he stressed..

"This is now Russia, waving after a fist fistfight, in a joint statement with Iran and Hezbollah says that the US has crossed the" red line ", and henceforth it intends to respond to any such actions including" using force ". I do not believe in anything, "the journalist said..

Kiselev calls Russia's joint statement with Iran and Hezbollah a thing beyond good and evil.

"Russia, repeatedly violating international law annexation of the Crimea and other actions in relation to Ukraine, which now appeals to international law - is, indeed, ridiculous. Russia, which claims that together with Iran and Hezbollah will fight international terrorism for the sake of stability in the Middle East, this is generally difficult to describe in censorship terms. You hear: with Iran - a state that for decades was reasonably suspected and is still suspected of sponsoring terrorist and extremist Islamic movements and organizations around the world! With Hezbollah - a radical Islamic movement, which many states and international organizations have officially recognized as terrorist! "- accentuated journalist.

He also noted the behavior of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

"And yet another problem: the changeable Putin's friend / enemy Erdogan again behaves somehow. We were friends with him. Then they quarreled to the nines. Then they began to make friends again. And now Erdogan that allows himself? Calls upon Russia to abandon support for the regime of Bashar Assad. What, again declare the Turkish president anathema?.

But the main thing: for what it's all done? What is the national interest? There is really no national interest here. There is only megalomania of one person who wants to be not only a lifetime president of Russia, but also a ruler of the seas and oceans, in which some Erdogan will be on parcels, and leaders of the West will be forced to reluctantly deal with, "writes Kiselev.

"Then Putin came to Syria to shed tears, all forgave him, lifted the sanctions, again took him to the allies, lagged behind him with Ukraine and in general with soldierly frankness told him straight in the eye:" You are a great man, Vladimir Vladimirovich! "However, all this could happen only in a fictitious world where the evergreen Russian president lives. I repeat: none of the Western leaders crawled to Putin on their knees, in chains and rags, sprinkling their heads with ashes to ask for forgiveness, repent, invite them to negotiate the division of the world into spheres of influence, call back to the G8,. Neither a new Yalta nor a new Potsdam happened, "the journalist believes..

He also noted the failure of Putin, who wanted to exchange interference in Syria for the easing of the West in Ukrainian affairs.

"Living in a fictitious world did not appreciate the full promise of Donald Trump" to make America great again ". But the greatness of America before consisted also in the fact that it was ready, if necessary, to act decisively in the international arena. Including - with the use of force - in the role of defender of countries and peoples threatened by aggressive neighbors and their own cruel and inhuman rulers. With "peacekeeper" Obama, this component of American greatness, frankly, was lost, "the journalist reminded..

"Yes, someone will probably try to call America a world policeman in a pejorative way. This is so - the world policeman. And I personally do not see anything wrong with this. A policeman can, and must, twist and put handcuffs on a disengaged criminal. And bring him to court. And if the perpetrator really threatens the lives of civilians, defenseless women, children, the elderly, then open fire to defeat, without trial and effect. It seems to me that this role is much more worthy than the role of the world hooligan from the St.

Petersburg gate with a nuclear sharpening in his pocket, "- concluded Kiselev.

As reported by the "Observer", on April 6, the US missile attack on the military base of the government troops of Syria responded to the hematoca conducted by the regime of President Bashar Assad in the province of Idlib.

Two US warships in the Mediterranean released at least 50 Tomahawk missiles.

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