ACTING 

IN MOSCOW

How the Wagner Group's supposed rebellion was a three-act opera

 

By Sir Charlattam

As the great Russian novelist Leonid Leonov once said “All genres of art...must possess epic elements”. What happened a few days ago with the Wagner group marching towards Moscow resembled an epic play by Bertolt Brecht that aroused the attention and close following of this surprising event. Leading the play was the provocative verbiage of its leader Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin who added drama to what was portrayed to Westerners as the “coup” that would dislodge Vladimir bloody Putin from the Kremlin.

The Anglo-Saxon media were quick to give their views and as always, with their tendentious speculations, they did nothing more than once again demonstrate the ignorance that makes them stand out.

Precisely as in Leonov's novels, while the Americans and their associates were intrigued by the deployment of Prigozhin and his men moving with an overture in the background, at the front the Ukrainian troops were irretrievably degraded, predicting that the much-proclaimed “counter-offensive” would not be able to continue this summer.

Meanwhile, in Rostov, Wagner's wagons and men were waiting in the streets...for orders. And it is here that we ask: From their leader Prigozhin or from Russia's commander-in-chief Putin? For the bureaucrats in Washington with Joe Biden at the helm, the epic spectacle warranted some popcorn. Only Jack Sullivan was not moved by the spectacle, his sense of smell suggested caution and that was what he suggested to those around him.

Downing Street and the Foreign Office were also following the show closely and while Sunak and Shadow were blathering like parrots about what they were seeing, Ministry of Defence (MoD) veteran Ben Wallace could not believe his eyes but it was something he said they could exploit and that is the business of MI6's Dirty Tricks Department.

When my source who has access to Vauxhall Cross and other government bureaucracy buildings in London told me what they expected from this move, I realised that Britain is certainly in the hands of imbeciles. According to this one, MI6 was tapping its sleepers in Russia to “support a coup”. Did they buy the masterpiece of suspense staged in Rostov? I couldn't believe it, although it does inform one of the utter ignorance and brainlessness with which they move in the upper echelons of British intelligence.

Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin was for months the centre of attention in the Western media not only for his group's sweeping victories and the capture of “Artemovsk”, but also for the vociferous and even aggressive words he dedicated publicly and daily to the Russian military establishment. If this guy was a seditionist, why didn't Putin's government cut off his channels if he was so abrasive and inconvenient in his views?

Prigozhin never thought of a coup d'état. Such a move would have been idiotic (and Prigozhin is no idiot) and he was well aware that just like an ant he would have been trampled by an elephant. There was a mess brewing over certain time-bound Kremlin decisions that -beyond personalities and passions- strike at the heart of the socio-political and ethno-cultural fabric of the Russian people. What got Wagner's boss off the hook was the summons to regularise the situation of his group with the Ministry of Defence, which is summarised in a legal document that expires on 1 July for the “official integration of his men into the Russian Armed Forces”, nothing more. All the speculation and additions by the intrigue commentators of decaying news outlets such as CNN, FOXNEWS and of course the BBC are filler and confetti.

In addition to the speculations of these predictable audio-visual media, we must not leave aside the novel stories of intrigue of the classic columnists amplifying the neo-conservative ideology of the US political-financial elite, such as the Washington Post and The New York Times, who further embellished the speculations with a whiff of wishful thinking.

Just as the blades were being sharpened to put together a big story that would help sustain an embarrassing situation for Zelensky and very counterproductive for Washington and its allies east of the Dniepr River, the situation took an unexpected turn and all the media noise about an “advance towards Moscow to overthrow Putin” and the hinted atmosphere of treason by some generals against the government suddenly fizzled out. After Putin's energetic speech condemning the traitors hours later, the glorious grouping and its leader were on their way to Belarus where they would occupy a gigantic abandoned Soviet-era base What has happened here?

By the time the head of MI6 operations still had no accurate reports from his sleepers in Moscow on how the situation on the Russian ground was developing, it was all (apparently) over without the prime minister and his advisers having any clear picture of what had happened.

For some it was a rebellion by an enraged Prigozhin seeking to settle scores with the defence ministry but especially with Generals Shoigu and Gerasimov, for others a pre-arranged psychological manoeuvre with Vladimir Putin that would confuse Westerners and in turn help detect traitors within sensitive sectors of the state; but another very plausible one is that Putin himself allowed this to go down these paths to get rid of Prigozhin and get his men absorbed into the defence ministry.

Whatever the real behind-the-scenes plot of this scene, the curtain has fallen and the show has ended leaving viewers in the West with more questions than certainties

 

 DEMOCRACIA ARGENTA

Con una larga historia de contrariedades en materia de política exterior ¿Cuál será la orientación geopolítica de la Argentina después de las elecciones de diciembre?

 

Por Javier. B. Dal

Tras el cierre de las fórmulas para las próximas elecciones en la Argentina, hay muchas opciones en danza que simulan ser antagónicas y hasta en algunos casos revolucionarias, pero en realidad no es así. Todos, de algún modo (y algunos de cualquier forma), se acercarán afectuosamente a Washington.

La Argentina no escapa a la actual caótica dinámica socio-política que vive el mundo y en particular del hemisferio occidental. Políticos que dicen una cosa y hacen otra muy diferente es algo que hemos visto con pasmosa asiduidad en la “democracia argentina”, pero hoy el marco global en la que este sistema se desenvuelve ya no tiene los condimentos geopolíticos que permitían alineamientos ciegos y hasta obscenos con los regentes del hemisferio. Graficando sería algo así como, políticos colgando de hilos muy delgados sin un piso firme (como lo eran las influencias de EEUU y la UE) para acomodarse al momento. Hoy EEUU no tiene el mismo poder y la influencia que tuvo en la época menemista y sus funcionarios están mucho más preocupados con sus asuntos contra Rusia y China.

Para la sécula de liberales y cuentapropistas, autopercibidos como demócratas puros quienes (además de sermonear a los demás por creerse superiores) no son más que chupamedias de las embajadas anglosajonas y del estado de Israel estos son su única esperanza de ganar algún sitial en las próximas elecciones. En este espectro se alinean Larreta-Morales y toda la tropa que los secunda. Para ello las visitas, entrevistas y las reuniones con representantes de estas representaciones nunca han estado más álgidas.

Lo mismo sucede con los supuestos antagonistas de un gobierno tan huérfano de identidad como opaco ideológicamente que en los papeles se dice peronista. Aunque esto último es algo inexistente, los estafadores lo usan como un sello de goma. Quedará para la historia develar ¿Qué carajo fue el gobierno de Alberto Fernández y Cristina Fernández? La respuesta que me atrevo a adelantar es “ni chicha ni limonada” aunque como ya vimos, siempre del lado del poder.

Aquí no preocupan las instituciones ni menos aún la tan hablada democracia. La prioridad es otra. Corre peligro el negocio de la partidocracia, el control de las arcas estatales y es una preocupación que va de derechas a izquierdas siendo el medio de este imaginario dial una párvula de estafadores y charlatanes camaleónicos que presentándose como el “camino del medio”, son meras mutaciones de ideologías inexistentes. En el se ubica ineludiblemente los llamados “libertarios”, otra marca importada desde el norte que no es otra cosa que una estafa semántica que encubre a lo más rancio de los partidarios del sistema financiero con anclaje en Wall Street y La City londinense.

Las candidaturas han quedado cristalizadas y aunque a muchos les llame la atención el grado de pragmatismo (para no decir panquequismo) que revelan sus personalidades y fórmulas, no es algo nuevo por acá. Todos, incluyendo a los medios, empresarios, los jueces y otros sectores influyentes especialmente interesados en la estabilidad económica-ganancial, se alinean por el candidato más conveniente para cubrir sus expectativas. Quien está a la cabeza de ellas es el ministro “abogado” Mazza, un diletante y arribista de larga prosapia que hoy es candidato oficial preferido a la presidencia por los banqueros angloestadounidenses, quise decir del ¿Kirchnerismo?

Massa ha roto todos los esquemas de la credibilidad y la caradurez siendo sin duda un representante preclaro de la política argentina y es por ello no asombra su designación.

Más allá del desafortunado espectáculo de CFK tratando de manipular a quienes la veían junto a Massa presentándolo como “el referente” con un avión con una historia negra a sus espaldas (y que traerlo de EEUU costo 4 millones de dólares), nadie sabría interpretar cómo deben los argentinos entender ese mensaje ¿Acaso es una velada advertencia a quienes no apoyen al ungido podrían ser arrojados desde un avión como este?

Desde lo geopolítico, el espectro electoral presenta dos posiciones (aunque nada novedosas) bien claras. Los partidarios de la visión unilateralista angloestadounidense y aquellos que bregan por el multilateralismo empujado desde oriente, más precisamente por China y Rusia. En el primer caso, los autoproclamados cruzados por la democracia cuentan con un apoyo político real de los polos de poder a los que responden, algo que sus oponentes no tienen con la inmediatez de aquellos.

Si fuera posible que el candidato de CFK, Sergio Massa lograse imponerse en las próximas elecciones (algo que es muy posible), su política exterior sería una continuación muy mesurada y hasta diluida de las relaciones tímidamente iniciadas con China y Rusia, dándole mayor relevancia a Washington y Tel Aviv repitiendo las tan acostumbradas y nada nuevas relaciones de vaivén en las alternadamente Buenos Aires se mueven espasmódicamente más por ideologías, intereses económicos sectoriales y prejuicios inherentes a estos caucus políticos que por intereses estratégicos del estado.

Esto se vio en épocas de CAMBIEMOS con Macri a la cabeza, por una evidente cercanía a las esferas anglosajonas, se profundizaron las injerencias de estos actores dentro de las esferas gubernamentales en sitiales altamente sensibles para la soberanía de un estado (Seguridad y Fuerzas Armadas). Un gobierno de Patricia Bullrich o Larreta significará la profundización de estas injerencias y sin dudas la colocación del país en un bando de la actual guerra en Europa que, considerando la no ocultada participación de la OTAN en Ucrania y sus continuas provocaciones para extenderla en el tiempo, puede llegar a una conflagración a nivel global. Y si esto pasara ¿Quién salvará a la Argentina?    

GEOPOLITICS OF CRIME

How do Western governments and organizations participate by action or omission and benefit from reprehensible and sinister businesses?

 

By Danny Smith

History is written by the victors, as the saying goes, although the logic behind it may already be considered outdated. This was possible in times when poverty and illiteracy were rampant in the world and newspapers in Western metropolises were managed by a few hands. Today's interconnectivity and the rapid displacement of information made possible by digital media has put an end to the historians of power.

During the 19th and 20th centuries, certain epic narratives were consolidated to extol the supposed heroes and plunge the evildoers of that history into the swamp. Thus, simplistic narratives of “good guys and bad guys” were arbitrarily created. The Western hemisphere and in particular the Anglo-Saxon world during the last century built a political imaginary (and using the entertainment industry) where they put on golden pedestals, supposed pro-men of certain ideologies concerned about freedom and the values of humanity.

For those who did not fall for this hoax, they realized early on that those concerns were for their freedom and the values of the Anglo-American flock to which they belonged. And the rest of humanity? For them, cannon fire, ignominy and economic-financial slavery (Korea, Vietnam, Latin America, the Arab-Islamic world and Eastern Europe). With this relativistic view of human values, it was easy to demonize the stranger and thus justify discarding him.

But it is not always necessary to eliminate the stranger. Many advantages can be obtained from him and almost always linked to economic gains.

Perverting people is big business and can only be done by perverts. The drug traffic is one of the most famous and the one that intelligence agencies try to control. In the 19th century, the British Empire relied on this sinister strategy to control the opium trade in Asia by using it to subdue the Chinese. To turn them into addicts and with that, into fractious and disobedient subjects. Sounds very current, doesn't it? With this, no one can be amazed at the rulers and supposed heroes that the United Kingdom has had and still has.

One of those who belonged to that ideology was Winston Churchill, a guy who in addition to not being able to stand without a bottle of Scotch had his hands stained with the famine and death by starvation of more than 3 million Bengalis, a genocide of which no one alludes. One more contribution to His Majesty's extensive career of imperial plunder. But Churchill had been brought up in that Victorian and farcical environment of British morality which, in addition to being segregationist, was absolutely racist. 

With the fall of the empire and after becoming second to the US, the old ways running through the veins of the British political class shifted to lending the talents of the old pirates like Hawkins and Drake to their own interests (like the mercenary Mark Thatcher, son of Maggie) or to the US State Department as they have done to this day with Sunak. Yesterday the booty was gold, African slaves and opium, today not much has changed and the merchandise is already the human being himself and all that composes him.

Thatcher's successors like Antony Blair, Cameron, May and I say nothing of Johnson did not contribute anything better to humanity. Each one of them and in each one of their administrations, the arbitrariness and criminal actions protected by government agencies never stopped. The fall of the Wall in the 1990s changed nothing. Both MI5 operating in the underworld with the political mafias in Ireland and MI6 playing dirty in the Balkan war and Kosovo covering the organ trafficking in which no less than “Doctors without Borders” (involved in clandestine sterilization plans in Africa) were involved; or with the independence fighters and Islamists of “Ichkeria” in the Caucasus trying to further disintegrate the situation of the young Russian Federation, they involved the commission of all sorts of crimes Why didn't Downing Street and Parliament see it that way? Simply because the victims were not Anglo-Saxons. The value of human life is not the same when they are preferably not blue-eyed whites and above all do not belong to the Commonwealth. Any opinion of the European Court of Human Rights or the International Criminal Court on this segregationism?

This way of thinking and acting has been the one that allowed businesses such as organ trafficking and the creation of prostitution networks of Iraqi girls and women who fell into the hands of the Anglo-American liberators. Baghdad was a liberated zone where bodies were often found in the streets with their thoraxes stitched up. A sign that their organs had been removed. This would later be replicated in Libya and immediately in Syria where the web of corruption and complicity of international observers, mafias and intelligence agencies such as the CIA, MI6 and their regional colleagues (including the Turkish MIT and the Israeli Mossad) reaped all kinds of black profits at the expense of the anonymous lives of thousands of Syrian Arabs who were stranded in camps where they had no protection whatsoever.

This sinister logic in which government agencies and dirty business mingle has been seen in Ukraine for a long time and has become endemic since NATO and its intelligence agencies started operating in support of the ultra-right “Azov” and SBU groups on a massive scale against the Russian-speaking population in the east. The vans equipped for ablation of organs from living people were not a myth and the inhabitants of Donbass know it very well. The arrival of the Russian troops tightened the security of the villagers and cut off that business and even helped to collect evidence of how those teams operated. Now these same teams are operating within the areas controlled by the Kiev regime, taking advantage of the continuous flow of wounded to extract especially the kidneys (which can be preserved for a few hours to move them) which makes it clear that they are only eager to get organs no matter who they come from. Is the corrupt Zelensky regime involved in this?

It is no coincidence that those teams working for a well-oiled transnational mafia that profits from a sinister and dark business involving doctors, clinics and hospitals all over the world (especially in the USA and Israel) and that operated inside the Donbass protected by death squads at the service of Kiev, had the now undeniable support of Americans and British with a long history of turning human beings into commodities. 

 

A FALSE FLAG... ON THE MOVE?

Why is Volodymyr Zelensky suggesting that Russia might blow up the Zaporiya nuclear power plant? When the subconscious gives away our intentions

 

By Sidney Hey

Interest is the measure of action is a saying among lawyers, but it also fits very well in the area of intelligence. Prevailing over the enemy is the goal and deception tactics are the cornerstone for this. Thus, the schemers of covert operations in charge of bringing deceptive actions to fruition will have political ends to support their governments' arguments.

Depending on the political interest involved, the action will be of a certain degree. For the sponsors of the Kiev regime things are more than clear: there is no chance going head-on against Russia. In fact, they have always known this, which is why they act clandestinely and in parallel to conventional actions on the ground. Terrorist attacks, sabotage, assassinations and incursions into Russian territory are proof of this. On the contrary, the exposure of the real instigators and perpetrators has been politically counterproductive. Remember the blowing up of the “Kakhovka” dam? At that time US-made HIMARS were fired at the dam gates and the local people themselves were witnessing it, so why did the Atlanticist media keep their mouths shut about that event? Undoubtedly, a failed false flag.

Another case was the blowing up of “Nord Stream”, a covert operation carried out in phases by a concurrence of Atlanticist complicities that on the surface was intended to damage the Russian economy when in reality, it was a deliberate sabotage against Germany's energy economy Who benefited and what were their targets? US LNG companies aiming to grab the gas business to sell to the EU. Here again another false flag with a strictly economic objective. So where is the supposed help to the European Union? On the contrary, this has not only increased prices but also ruined the economies of the Eurozone in such a calamitous way that there is no doubt about its malicious intention. How does this help Ukraine?

Here we note issues completely unrelated to Ukrainian political interests, let alone those of ordinary Ukrainian citizens. To make a brief definition of this situation we would call all this a mere dirty “business consortium” involving corporations such as BLACK ROCK, the arms companies -including Biowar-, the Pentagon and the CIA. And the EU? Fuck the Europeans!

With this we see the cynicism and the unscrupulousness behind the speeches of support for democracy and freedom coming out of Washington and London in support of an extremist regime that has been severely curtailing frontline news coverage simply because it must not see the setbacks they are suffering.

Given this, why would it not be strange for the desperate pro-Nazi regime to execute a greater folly?

This is where the well-known “false flag” manoeuvre comes in, a ploy of deception to execute a bloody act that seeks to cause a collective psychological shock in order to place the blame on a well-defined subject or collective. In short, a manipulation to establish and fix a lie. The size of such an operation will depend on the complexity of the objective pursued. The episodes of 11 September 2001 are perhaps the most complex and suspected acts of this kind, and through which the US victimised itself and justified its so-called “fight against terrorism”.

So far in the war in Ukraine, the Kiev regime has tried to involve NATO by fabricating several episodes with which to victimise itself in the eyes of public opinion and force Brussels to implement the famous article 5 of the Treaty which states: “The parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them, taking place in Europe or North America, shall be considered as an attack directed against all of them.” Recall Zelensky's allegations in November 2022 that Russian missiles were responsible for the death of a farmer in Poland. Only when Biden admonished him for his stupidity did this clown lower his head and shut his big mouth.

Fortunately, this chicanery did not stick, and worse, it was exposed in Washington and in the public eye. That is why, in some sense, Zelensky's role as a travelling tax collector has not borne the fruit that his backers had hoped for. Biden, Sullivan and Blinken are likely to be very disappointed. It seems that the “son of a bitch” Zelensky represents for the State Department is no longer as fruitful and useful as they had hoped and they may even be very concerned that he will commit further stupidities. Is it time to get rid of it?

On the latter, Zelensky has been heard in the Atlanticist propaganda media raising the possibility of Russia carrying out a “false flag attack on the nuclear power plant” in Zaporiya. While the sectarian and demented neo-conservatives like Nikki Haley, Victoria Nuland and their cronies may be rubbing their hands together at such talk, the establishment with Biden at the helm would not be so keen, at least not at the moment.

 

ENCRUCIJADA

La tan promocionada por los medios angloestadounidenses contraofensiva ucraniana ha costado un altísimo precio sin los resultados esperados ¿Cuál será la estrategia de la Casa Blanca y de la OTAN para no perder el control de más territorio?

 

Por Charles H. Slim

Los intentos ucranianos por realizar una contra ofensiva han fracasado y eso es un hecho incontrastable. Las pérdidas materiales y humanas de Ucrania son desmoralizantes y esto -más allá del régimen de Kiev y del mismo Zelensky- es una preocupación para la OTAN que no esperaba que el fracaso fuese tan rápido.

El relato épico de la propaganda de los medios del “occidente colectivo” sobre una contra ofensiva inminente y aplastante hoy se ha desinflado y para desviar la atención se enfocan en misteriosas desapariciones de submarinos con millonarios abordo.

Las fuerzas ucranianas prácticamente han quedado desarmadas. A las pérdidas y abandonos de vehículos occidentales en las primeras acciones, hay que sumar la destrucción de tres grandes depósitos con importantes lotes de armas y municiones de la OTAN que merma el aprovisionamiento a las tropas. Como se puede ver, nunca pudo ser más oscuro el horizonte para los planes de Washington y Bruselas.

Otro hecho que se ha visto y documentado por los rusos son las deserciones entre las tropas ucranianas que tras ser entrevistadas por sus captores han testimoniado la falta de idoneidad y capacidad en sus mandos.

Los únicos logros tácticos han sido la captura y en muchos casos temporal, de pequeñas villas y pueblos que se sitúan en una zona gris antes de llegar a la primera línea de fortificaciones rusas. Son en esas ocasiones que se han montado escenificaciones de combatientes ucranianos presentadas como victorias en los medios angloestadounidenses, cuando en realidad no hay resultados reales o avances sustanciales sobre las líneas rusas. Uno de los puntos más sangrientos se está dando en el poblado de “Piatijatky” donde los choques son espeluznantes. Este poblado ha cambiado de manos en varias oportunidades quedando en las últimas horas en manos rusas.

“Zaporiya” es otro de los puntos de alta intensidad y donde los intentos de avance ucranianos han terminado con grandes pérdidas materiales y humanas. En este sector es donde se halla la planta nuclear más grande de Europa y que los saboteadores ucranianos han estado tratando de volarla por los aires ¿Qué objeto puede perseguir semejante acto demencial?  Se trata a todas luces de acciones desesperadas y que las autoridades de la Organización de Energía Atómica (OIEA) hacen la vista gorda de manera descarada, evidenciando (como si ello fuera una novedad) a quienes responden. Si a Zelensky y a sus lugartenientes le preguntasen que necesitan para tratar de sacar adelante esta situación su respuesta sería sin dudas “cualquier cosa” y es ahí donde el terrorismo y las “falsas banderas” son opciones válidas para echar mano.

Pero ¿Por qué se ha producido esto? Hay una combinación de factores que explicarían este desastre.  Antes aclaremos que esto involucra directamente a Washington y la OTAN como principales instigadores para que la guerra y las penurias de los ucranianos continúe. Esto quedo probado tras la visita a Moscú de los representantes africanos promotores de un plan de paz quienes en la entrevista con el presidente Vladimir Putin fueron puestos en autos sobre la negativa del régimen de Kiev -instigada desde Washington- a una paz consensuada (Cancelando el acuerdo “confidencial” firmado entre Kiev y Moscú en 2022).

Continuando con los factores que convergieron para este fracaso, el primero es la falta de personal entrenado y reclutas sin la formación suficiente para manejar los tanques occidentales que nada tienen que ver con los tanques T-64 y 72 de la era soviética. Durante las primeras incursiones del 4 al 9 de junio las pérdidas de vehículos acorazados “Bradley”, “Challenger” y los exaltados “Leopards” dejaron evidente que algo salió muy mal con el entrenamiento.

Pero ese no era el único factor. Fuentes dentro de las mismas fuerzas ucranianas refieren a fallas mecánicas y en el instrumental de los tanques y vehículos acorazados de origen estadounidense que en algunos casos, revelan problemas con las armas montadas. En síntesis, se habla de chatarra.

Sumado a esto, un número de bajas considerable que quedaron desperdigados en los campos junto con sus armas, equipos, municiones provistos por la OTAN. Como ya se advierte en la opinión pública occidental, los medios mantienen un sospechoso mutismo sobre o que ocurre en Ucrania y los motivos están muy claros: Nada va bien allí.

Las pérdidas en las primeras horas del 4 de junio alcanzaron a unos 1000 hombres y eso no tiene otra conclusión que “desastre”. Estos se suman a las 200.000 bajas que se estiman en su mayoría, como los mejores hombres y con experiencia. Los que han sido enviados a esta promocionada contraofensiva son reclutas con poca voluntad y muchos otros sin experiencia en combate. No olvidemos que la leva impuesta por Kiev va desde los 16 hasta los 60 años. A pesar de que los medios occidentales y en especial los controlados por el pensamiento neoconservador, invierten esta realidad hablando de que son los rusos los que han perdido esa cifra, y muchos nos preguntamos ¿Enserio? Si tomamos enserio estos números dibujados es lógico entonces que, de acuerdo a esa arbitraria proporcionalidad deberíamos suponer que las perdidas ucranianas son el doble.

Como se puede ver, las cosas están muy mal para Kiev y por extensión, para La Casa Blanca. La desesperación es mucho más advertible en los atlantistas que entre los resignados reclutas ucranianos quienes son conscientes que van directo a un matadero (picadora de carne) con muy pocas chances de regresar.

Al parecer los neoconservadores están presionando a Biden para que empuje a los gobiernos de Polonia, Bulgaria y Rumania a poner hombres en Ucrania como una medida desesperada para remontar las operaciones. Pero más allá de la aversión contra Rusia que sienten algunos de estos mandatarios, son ante todo realistas y tienen los pies en la tierra entendiendo muy bien que quemarse por los intereses angloestadounidenses no les redundara más beneficios que los de mantener una relación tensa, acotada y pragmática con Moscú.