The Russian democratic system, as you know, has a special, so to speak, authentic democracy that is not understood by any other country. Well, if earlier such "misunderstandings" really often appeared in the minds of more and more foreign politicians, economists and experts on various development issues, today there are more and more "dull" people inside Russia. Whatever one may say, our compatriots do not understand why military officials are still sitting in their soft leather chairs, if the people do not want the people who thwarted the plans to re-equip the Russian army to continue to work. An ordinary Russian cannot grasp the cause-and-effect relationship, who sees how the President for the third time demands from the Ministry of Defense to fulfill the State Defense Order, and the leaders of the Ministry only guiltily cast their eyes down, but with enviable persistence do not want to leave their homes. And how to understand if for a hundredth of such offenses from a regular job in Russia they are dismissed in no time.
The situation in the Russian defense department is close to either fabulous or dystopian. Let's use an example as an analogy. The owner of a large estate gets himself a huge dog in order for it to protect the home from thieves. At the same time, he feeds the dog with selected sugar bones, gives him fresh milk, and she only snores in her kennel upholstered in silks and gold and does not lead her nose when someone knocks on the door with her hands and feet. The people in the estate are scared - suddenly the thieves jump over the fence, but they get inside. “You would at least bark!” - they say to the dog and advise the owner to drive it out. But the kind owner does not dare to drive the dog out of the gate, he also continues to regale him, as before. Complete absurdity.
However, this is exactly what happens in our country-estate. The Ministry of Defense receives multi-billion dollar injections to modernize the army, but it seems to forget about the modernization itself. We will not spend money, they say, because the arms manufacturers want to rip us off. So the people's billions lie in the bins of Comrade Serdyukov and his associates. Meanwhile, planes with thirty years of "experience" fly and safely fall in our skies, our ships float in the seas (yes, they do not go, but they float), which still remember the rudiments of the Khrushchev "thaw", soldiers practice battle tactics on the ranges, armed with "shabby" machine guns with written-off cartridges in the horns.
The people living in a supposedly democratic state are trying to ask the question: "Well, where is the new weaponry: where are the sparkling corvettes descending into the shipyard, where are the new Russian fighters filling the skies of the Motherland with the roar?" And in response, the people hears that it is necessary to wait a couple of months, and the Ministry of Defense will nevertheless start purchasing.
Here is a new red rag for the people, which distracts from the essence of the matter, has already been sewn by our President. Dmitry Medvedev decided that the State Defense Order was thwarted not because the RF Ministry of Defense was simply sabotaging decrees and orders, and not because someone was already scrolling budget money in banks in Europe and the United States, but only because there was no responsible person. Yeah! A whole ministry, in whose staff there are thousands, I'm not afraid of this word, parasites, could not appoint a person responsible for the implementation of the project to conclude defense contracts. Therefore, they say, Medvedev and decided to appoint "to help" these thousands of one more. This, as we are assured, will certainly figure out from whom and how much to buy missiles, ships and planes. The new Deputy Minister Dmitry Bulgakov should become such a “defensive messiah”. It is difficult for a normal person to imagine how this person would suddenly cut the Gordian knot of our defense department, fetch money from Swiss banks or from under Serdyukov's bed, and buy enough weapons.
The most surprising and entertaining thing is that at the same time Comrade Serdyukov himself not only did not leave his post, but was not even awarded a severe reprimand. They threaten him from above, and he continues to sleep on budget billions and see colored dreams.
If the situation with the procurement of new weapons is not resolved in the very near future, then our border will turn into a fence full of holes through which anyone who wishes can crawl. After all, the same non-barking dog is still lying further, and through it you can simply calmly step over and start sowing democracy of a completely different kind …
