Putin’s nerves and the compactness of the EU: which of the two will give way first?
Nerves that jump, jump on the chariot of the winner of the moment, jumps of political lane, jumps of competence between immunology and war strategy. We are witnessing all this today, dismayed and resigned; it would even be funny, if we had not reached a crucial junction in the life of many of the inhabitants of the planet. At other times, Putin's nervous state of health could matter very little if he were not, to this day, in possession of the famous briefcase with red buttons. Maybe he will not be the only one to give public spectacle of embarrassing television performances , but the Putinian one in which he literally humiliated and treated the head of his secret services as an idiot is not a marginal question, let's face it, because it is about peace or war, a war of which no one in the world can define the horizontal borders and the intensity to which it could arrive.
Returning to the nerves of the Russian autocrat (sweetened and politically correct version of the term dictator ), they certainly do not prove to be as steadfast as we can expect from one of the most powerful men in the world, if not the most powerful. For the sake of completeness, we must also find that Joe Biden's mention of the Third World War does not seem to belong to his best oratorio repertoire and does not demonstrate either timeliness or serenity of judgment. But the incendiary propaganda of the Russian president's words took us back many years and, probably, the tones and contents of his global invectives are more like the rantings of a red-faced Saddam Hussein who threatened "the mother of all battles of always ”in which he would have exterminated the entire West than at the solemn pronouncements of a head of state on the brink of war. We all remember how it ended up for Saddam, although the unworthy and inhuman dissemination of gruesome images followed with a finished and mocked man climbing to the gallows, whatever horrendous crime he committed. The same images shamefully disseminated by the world press concerned Ceausescu and Gaddafi and God forbid that they are seen on television of similar, not even for those who are deliberately killing civilian populations, outside any rule of international warfare.
But the risk, in the end, is that and so has happened so far for every dictator who has challenged the whole world, in addition to the most elementary rules of international law. Whatever goes through Vladimir Putin's mind, he does not demonstrate the balanced and courageous vision that one can legitimately expect from a Great One of the Earth. On the contrary, it seems to witness once again the sad spectacle of those who, seeing themselves forced into an ever tighter corner, react with indiscriminate fury against anyone who comes within range. This is the impression for what we see and hear every day, perhaps started with that absurd ten-meter table that was built (in Italy), sitting at a ridiculous distance from the heads of state in the days immediately preceding the invasion of Ukraine. Since then it has been a continuous crescendo, until the very recent manifestation of uncontrolled anger and contempt that Putin reserved for the leader of his powerful and fearsome services, ridiculing him in front of the whole world. One of the two: either he has gone mad, or it is part of his articulated plan to overrule and overrule each of his most important collaborators and all this can only leave us perplexed and stunned, as well as not knowing which of the two hypotheses is more dangerous for the whole world.
Decisive circumstances are occurring, however it will go, for our future. Even the unexpected abandonment of the centuries-old Swiss neutrality marks another fixed point in the international chessboard, just as it is impossible not to affirm with the proof of the facts that such massive solidity of intentions in taking sides against Russia by a European Union so far divided and fragmented is a sign of exceptional importance, even if, let it be clear, it does not at all mean that Europe, understood as an institution, is really strong and decisive in major international crises. It could even be argued that so much European compactness in denying the authorization to fly over and land in its individual nations, imposed on Russian planes, and so much determination in imposing heavy sanctions against Russia could be, and even in a short time, yet another reason. of disagreement between the countries that are part of the EU. Although we may all be exhausted by the overwhelming radio-television analyzes and those written in the leading newspapers signed by a multitude of global experts on what practical consequences so many (somewhat twisted) sanctions imposed on Putin could have, it cannot be ruled out. that precisely such sanctions will end up "having children and stepchildren" among European nations. And so much monolithic European solidarity can melt like snow in the sun when it comes to talking about the price and quantity of gas supplies, building new coal plants, the eventual rush to coastal regasification plants which, needless to deny, seem to be the immediate future. , at least for the countries of Southern Europe.
And if we were to even hypothesize how long this breath of community solidarity could last in Italy, we would have to throw away the history books in advance and forget that we can't even get along decently with the French and that a very large part of Italians still have it. with the Germans for facts that occurred eighty years ago. We are waiting to say how long European solidarity can last when it comes to having to share a few million (real) refugees from the East equally and we will see how compact and unanimous we will be.
If I wanted to conclude on a positive note, I would say that it is not bad at all to see the individual European nations decide democratically, preferably through parliamentary procedure, which position to take and that the true Europe is the mouthpiece of the will of its associated peoples, rather than a stepmother. who gave them every behavior and every political, economic and social choice. Certainly the greenish nonsense and the gretinate will be promptly put aside, now that it is a question of producing energy by any means is not exclusively Russian gas. But now more than ever, our rulers are called to defend and support their people and we will see if and how they respond to these sacred demands of all of us. They wanted the bicycle, they falsified it in every way to make it go beyond their individual abilities, they even built, with our money, all downhill roads so as not to make them trudge and give them abundantly assisted pedaling. But now pedal. The rest, frankly, are words, not to define it with the horrible neologism: crap.
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