The West has built its prosperity from the Protestant "ethic" of "time is money", and the Russians stop time at any time to indulge in nothing.
Prigozhin is dead.
And now everyone should look inside themselves and admit: it was already known that he would be dead when he set off for Moscow with his soldiers to overthrow or "just" scare the authorities. The Kremlin.
Scaring the Kremlin is not a guarantee of longevity and never has been. It always ended in war or open terror, mass murder, internment camps, open execution. Even if the threat wasn't real.
And recently, executions, liquidations, and road clearances have been "tamed" into such accidents. People who are middle-aged or younger, and even a little older, fall out of the windows of Russian cities in order to melt down below and unite with the Russian motherland, Mother Russia.
Russia is unfathomable by reason, immeasurable by reason
- and indeed. And indeed, not only is the well of the past profoundly deep, but so is the soul of the Russian people.
And the Russian president has a confident place in this spirit of the people. Despite the people falling from the windows and the planes falling from the sky. Chekhov and Gogol and Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky and Pushkin and Tarkovsky and Mikhalkov could only be born from this profoundly deep folk soul, and this is what the West will never understand.
But not even to tame it.
The West is rational, pragmatic - and endlessly and shamefully hypocritical. The West has built its prosperity from the Protestant "ethic" of "time is money", and the Russians stop time at any time to indulge in nothing.
And of course, the West's Protestant "ethics" of "time is money" and its unquestionable diligence also required it to always raid, colonize and rob the world outside of it throughout its history. The British invented the concentration camps during the Boer War, they bred a special breed of dog so that the animal would attack the genitals of their enemies, but at five in the afternoon they always sipped their tea in impeccable snow-white glace gloves.
This West will now be horrified by the death and assassination of Prigozhin, and in this death it will rediscover its own superiority. - Such a thing could never happen in our developed, impeccable democracies, in our small states of law, let alone there, in the barbaric Russian wasteland, so now, see and fear what would approach us if we did not arm the Ukrainians! - that's what they will say.
And they will believe it. However, some of those involved could tell us about it.
Osama bin Laden was a man of the Americans until he fought against the Soviets in Afghanistan. They financed him, armed him, patted him on the back, gave him a friendly smile, and the Western secret services were certainly paying attention to him. Then Osama bin Laden turned on them, carried out a terrorist attack on America - and was killed. Rightly so? I think, I think, I feel, yes. But that still got him murdered. He sleeps, at night, in his sleep, with the people of his house. It's fine, but then don't make jokes about the rule of law and democracy. Or at least a little more carefully, with less momentum, less conviction, not so much saliva.
Saddam Hussein was a man of the Americans, of the West. His war against Iran came in very handy, as the United States considered Iran its own backyard - why? - and he did not like Khomeini's rise to power. So they soon saw Saddam as a "democrat". They were financed and armed. Then, when Saddam started threatening Kuwait and became too independent, it suddenly became clear that he was a dictator.
And then they lied that he had anthrax and all kinds of assorted chemical weapons and threatened the immeasurably democratic and rule-of-law western world, so his country was attacked, he was captured, and then he was killed. You can call what happened an execution, but that still made it what it was: a political murder. Then suddenly it turned out that Saddam did not have any chemical or other weapons, and it also turned out that the Western secret services had already informed their governments of this before the invasion of Iraq.
So: it was all a gigantic lie.
The biggest villain is next in line: Gaddafi. Black September, Lockerbie, the murder of Yvonne Fletcher - Gaddafi did not mince words. Then he realized that it was time to consolidate his relationship with the West, and he did so. He allowed international inspectors into Libya, destroyed its nuclear weapons program and chemical weapons, concluded a nuclear energy agreement with France, Tony Blair visited him, in 2006 the USA restored diplomatic relations with him and removed Libya from the list of countries supporting terrorism.
Gaddafi, if not a man of the West, has become a partner of the West. This is where he messed up. Because the "Arab Spring" organized and financed by Western (mainly American) secret services came, which also reached Libya. Gaddafi was killed like a dog by the "revolutionaries". He served his fate, at least in his case, there is no doubt about that. But he also only added to the ranks of those whose life and death prove: it is very dangerous and risky and unpredictable to be a friend of the West.
Prigozhin's plane fell from the sky. From the blue, sheep-clouded Russian sky, and Prigozhin's disintegrating body united with Mother Russia.
I'd bet big that that plane didn't just fall out of the sky by itself. And I ask very quietly, almost in a whisper: in your opinion, if, say, a mercenary leader in the United States marched against Washington with his soldiers to overthrow the incumbent president, how long would he live? Even if he managed to escape?
Please put the answers on the future grave of Julian Assange and the existing grave of JF Kennedy. Then we'll read it all with vodka and balalaika...
Featured image: Péter Mészáros / CÖF
