The opposition in the European Parliament faces isolation: Trips to Asia are to repair diplomatic damage and prepare a patriotic alternative

President in power: disgust, remorse, emotions.

This is what happens when you want to go to Turkey and the Turk says no.

But the government's role IS to "solve, switch and investigate". The president is the most visible of the remaining opposition figures. Not the formal one, in parliament. The real one - financed by the Taiwanese, USAID or NED, through non-profit organizations such as European Values ​​or AMO, which people like Pavel, Vystrčil, Pekarová or Lipavský only represent on the outside. What Petr Pavel needs now is to show these sponsors that he is still in the game, their politics are still alive and it is worth continuing to support him. Specifically, to make a video in Ankara that could be taken over by their media and passed off as the official position of the Czech Republic and the "democratic majority" in wider Europe. That the actual attitude of the government is different and that the president has no say in foreign policy is not essential; it is done for media reality. And not so much Czech, but European Union and American. The goal is to pretend that Trump and Babiš are transitory, that there is still agreement on the original unity of the West and the policy of the military-political complex in the USA/EU/NATO.

And that is precisely why, in my opinion, the highly embarrassing Macinka-Pavel dispute is being resolved so much. It's not about plane tickets to Ankara, not even about Pavel. It's about the image. Whether the "Biden" dominance of the West continues, whether EU and US states intend to continue to invest in it through NATO, or go to war for it. Or whether the world has become multilateral and the relics of the Cold War are passé - even with the politicians who represent this trend.