Reconstruction of Ukraine discussed in Lugano. Italy is either too smart or too stupid
Among imposing security measures, the international conference on Ukraine (Ukraine Recovery Conference URC 2022) opened on Monday in Lugano, which aims to define a plan for the future reconstruction of Ukraine, from an economic and infrastructural point of view, but also from a social point of view. and humanitarian. A small dream of reconstruction while the war is still a long way from being over.
The summit will end on Tuesday with the drafting of the Lugano Declaration to which the participants who have started arriving on the banks of the Ceresio since yesterday will contribute.
Among them the representatives of 38 States, 52 delegations and 14 international organizations (including the World Bank and the UN) for a total of more than 1,000 guests gathered in Italian-speaking Switzerland. In the morning, the President of the EU Commission Ursula Von der Leyen arrived, and obviously Italy could only be present, always at the forefront when the interests of others, and not one's own, are being pursued.
In this case, however, the map proposed by the conference, in which individual countries take on the burden of reconstructing specific areas, presents us either as very cunning, or very stupid….
If you look at the map, Italy and Poland would take on the burden of rebuilding the Donetsk area. Why are we either very clever or very stupid? Because the area in question is almost entirely under Russian control, who are actually advancing to completely control that region! As Moscow completed the conquest of the Lugansk region, it will now want to complete that of the Donetsk region.
Therefore:
- or we are very clever, because we have taken on a task that we know is in the hands of Russia and for which we will not spend anything;
- or we are very stupid and have made an indirect commitment to get Donetsk back to Ukraine.
At present, betting that Ukraine will take back the Donbass, by the way, in its entirety, seems like a considerable gamble. So it is not clear what kind of commitment we may have made.
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