Russia-Ukraine crisis: we are going to war under the command of Cadorna

The news now overlap and are not positive. Let's summarize.

• Putin sent soldiers to the Donesk and Lugansk republics after their recognition objectively by occupying them. The action was almost zero military cost and zero human cost;
• Faced with this move, Biden and Blinken canceled the planned meetings with Putin and Lavror. We are practically at the break of the talks, for now, and at the limit of diplomatic relations;
• The United States, the UK and the EU have decided to apply sanctions to Russia, of a political and economic nature, from the freezing of the assets of the members of the Duma, to their ban on movement, to other sanctions not yet well specified. The homologation process of

From a diplomatic point of view, the situation is serious, even if, from a practical point of view, little has changed: the republics of Donbass had already practically been torn from Ukraine and the fact that, instead of pro-Russian militias, there are real Russians, it changes little. Diplomatically it is a completely different matter.

In Syria, the Turkish military is in close contact with the Russian and Syrian ones, and, for now, the status quo has held up. If Russia does not advance further, a similar stalemate could also occur in the Donbass. It must be said that Ukraine, for Putin and a part of the Russians, is a "Non-state", or rather a puppet state in the hands of Westerners and this makes an "Appeasement" much more complex.

Why has there been this escalation? Why the EU appeared unarmed, completely in the hands of foreigners:

• the Green Deal policy has put the European energy and industrial system in crisis, because the push towards gas with no available supply alternatives has made us dependent on Moscow;
• the "German Guide" gave the impression of being acquiescent towards Moscow, with Nord Stream 2, for which Putin thought, not wrongly, that in any case the European reaction would have been minimal and superficial;
• despite the gas cut test through Yamal no one has seriously thought about energy alternatives.

If today we decide to take a stronger, deterrent position towards Russia, we cannot help but radically change the entire economic, industrial and energy policy. We cannot go towards an economic war. thinking of combining a policy of containment of public investments, an increase in interest rates, with the boom in energy prices, if there is one.

In the Great War Cadorna initially dropped the weight and the conflict on the foot soldiers, with the policy of attacks in human waves, during the day, against the fortified Austrian positions, on a huge front. The result was an unprecedented massacre of soldiers without significant victories, indeed the tactical situation was prepared for the defeat of Caporetto. After the disastrous defeat that practically cost us an army, the decision was made to radically change the approach. His name was Diaz who had a completely different approach, valuing the lives and well-being of soldiers as important as the industrial and logistical side of the war. We went from a nineteenth-century approach to modern warfare, and it was a winning choice. Today we are faced with the same need: we cannot afford to deal with a policy of strategic deterrence with an old-fashioned and fundamentally liberal ruling class. Up to now, the European and Italian governments have behaved like Cadorna, avoiding significant investments, strategic changes and sacrificing consumers. Thus we are heading towards a painful new recession, with the aftermath of bankruptcy, unemployment and misery. The price of political choice is paid to consumers who will turn to the polls against governments that are insensitive to their needs. Furthermore, those who have made disastrous choices in the past no longer have any credibility to continue making them in the future. Do you trust Von Der Leyen? From Scholz? There is a need for a radical political change, of ideas and people, which places the well-being of the populations as an essential element of national politics . Because the Cold War was won by ensuring Western citizens an incredibly superior welfare to that of their Eastern counterparts, and this should be the real challenge again now. Governments must be able to demonstrate that well-being and freedom do not come with Putin, but with a Western system, a challenge that our governments are losing.

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This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/crisi-russia-ucraina-stiamo-andando-in-guerra-comandati-da-dei-cadorna/ on Wed, 23 Feb 2022 08:41:21 +0000.