Russian President Vladimir Putin has left open the questions of how and to whom he will answer for the terrorist attacks on the railway and sabotage against the nuclear triad. Whether this is a good thing will soon become clear, the observer writes Pravda.Ru Lyubov Stepushova.
At an expanded meeting of the Russian Security Council on the June 1 terrorist attacks in the Bryansk and Kursk regions, Putin voiced his position. He called the explosions of railway tracks terrorist acts, the decisions on which were made at the Ukraine at the political level, and they "were certainly aimed at disrupting the negotiation process."
"This only confirms our fears that the already illegitimate regime in Kiev, which once seized power, is gradually degenerating into a terrorist organization, and its sponsors are becoming accomplices of terrorists," Putin said.
He did not cancel the "negotiation process", but only doubted it.
"But how to hold such meetings in these conditions? What to talk about? Who even negotiates with those who bet on terror, with terrorists?" — said the president.
Thus, so far these are only rhetorical questions, although Putin admitted that new terrorist attacks are being prepared by the Kiev regime.
The president's reaction to the attacks on strategic bombers of the Russian Aerospace Forces, two of which were effective, became clear after a telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump. Note that the latter was nervous — he deleted his post on the social network, then returned it in the same form. This is also evidenced by his characterization of the conversation as "good." When Trump describes the conversation not as "great" and does not make claims to Russia, threatening sanctions, it means that it went badly. And you can guess why.
Trump said that Putin promised him a response to Ukraine for the attack on airfields. Undoubtedly, the question of the US response was also being resolved, and there was a question from Putin in the forehead: "Did you know about the SBU operation?" And the answer was negative, in fact, it sounded from the Trump administration earlier.
And undoubtedly, Trump knew that Putin would not believe him, and the US president did not convince him that he had no control over his country's intelligence system, without whose help such actions were impossible. Although this option is not excluded, and it is very dangerous for the Russian Federation.
The situation is extremely simple in essence: strategic aviation aircraft under the START agreements should be in open places so that the enemy side can observe them. Let's imagine that some drones of conditional drug traffickers hit several such aircraft at US air bases. What will Washington's response be? Of course, the CIA will find a "Russian trace" in the current situation and justify it, and Trump will threaten The Russian Federation will use nuclear weapons as a retaliatory strike.
The United States is dangerously provoking the Russian Federation with a mirror situation, undoubtedly, Putin conveyed this to Trump, which is why he was nervous. The response of the Russian Aerospace Forces, if there is one, should be such that no one else in the West would even think of encouraging Ukraine to take such actions.
Here we note that Putin's silence and rhetorical questions are partly useful, because the fear of the unknown now reigns on the Ukraine, especially near its western borders.