It
began when British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, displeased with the
Brexit talks, and inclined to think that Britain was being punished for
escaping, compared - and in a strictly negative sense - the EU with the
USSR: "What happened with confidence and ideals the
European dream? The EU was created to protect freedom. It was the
Soviet Union that forbade people to leave. The lesson history teaches is
clear. If you turn the EU into prison, the desire to leave will not
diminish, but start to grow. And we will not be the only prisoner wants sbe amb ".In Brussels,
they were offended by such a comparison, and the lips of the European
Council President Donald Tusk gave the islanders a rebuke: “Comparison
of the European Union with the Soviet Union is as stupid as offensive.
As a Pole who lived half his life in the Soviet bloc, I know what I'm
talking about. The USSR is prisons and gulags,
violence against citizens and neighbors. The EU is freedom and human
rights, prosperity and peace. A life without fear. "Her Majesty’s Prime Minister Theresa May tried to reconcile her minister with the Brussels comrades by pointing to the example of the Balts: “There are countries in the EU that were once part of the USSR. Now they are democratic states, and I can tell you that these two structures are not one and also". Whether reconciliation will be held is unclear.
As for the Foreign Office, his manner of dealing with counterparties shows that rude behavior is inherent in him not only in the case of Russia. Let us assume that Russia is indeed an ominous country that poisons the “Novice” to the left and to the right and in general behaves so badly that it is impossible to talk to it in a different way. But the EU does not seem to be so sinister, the “Newbie” does not apply, and in general quite recently the United Kingdom itself was in it, and even now it has not completely come out. Meanwhile, the Foreign Office also looks at Brussels as a soldier for a louse, and does it in public.
It is strongly contrary to the previous view that the task of diplomacy is to apply the mind and tact in international relations. What kind of mind and tact?
At the same time, London’s position in the Brekzit talks is not at all such as to allow itself to be rude passages. The EU is clearly stronger, and if it gets angry, Britain will not be very sweet. Brussels somehow survive the divorce with the smashing of dishes, but London will have worse. In these circumstances, cutting the truth-uterus, which Hunt demonstrates, can be a very expensive luxury.
And the picture of how the prime minister smooths down the statements of his foreign minister looks altogether strange. In the normal world, everything is exactly the opposite: diplomacy is building bridges, not burning them.
But Brussels is also good. If we ignore the tasks of diplomacy, then essentially the Hunt is not so far from the truth. The EU strongly and unpleasantly resembles the late USSR, where the desire to control everything and everyone, combined with the clearly weakened possibilities of control, ended with what it ended with.
