All the hoaxes of the Putinists in Italy about NATO and weapons
In Italy, rhetoric, unrealism and a lack of strategic culture dominate. Here are the effects on the conflict in Ukraine. Carlo Jean's analysis
In Italy, rhetoric, unrealism and the fact that strategic culture is severely lacking dominate. More than on facts, we say "ideological" or "choice of field" beliefs dominate. This applies both to the origins of the conflict, to the consequences of the economic sanctions and to the support for Ukraine. Less for the various imaginative peace or truce plans that are proposed. We mention only a few more picturesque examples.
Because of the origin of the conflict, it has been claimed that Putin was forced into a preventive defense because he was concerned by the threat posed by the "huge" NATO exercises in the Black Sea. Putin actually said so. The Italic parrots have repeated it with conviction. Since I didn't trust me much, I went to leaf through the cards.
In 2021, two exercises were held: one with 5,000, the other with 2,500 participants! The same fable, perhaps read on Mickey Mouse, concerns the American and British military aid to Ukraine defined as "massive" since 2014. In fact, they have become significant since 2017, in which the US ones amounted to $ 50 million, to become of 150 in the following years.
The attack on Kiev was defeated, mainly by drones bought from Turkey and British and Swedish light anti-tank weapons, but above all by the heroism of the Ukrainian light infantry.
Particularly tasty was the controversy over heavy weapons not to be sent to Kiev because, in the new phase of the conflict, they would not serve for self-defense, but would cause an escalation (sic!).
The current conflict is one of attrition based on artillery duel. Only heavy weapons are needed. To say that we only help Ukrainians with small arms would be a mockery. You don't need to be a strategic expert to understand this. It does not seem to me that not even the over-the-top strategists from a prestigious Roman university, generous in offering the Russians Ukrainian territories, had the audacity to say so.
The two conceptions of the future of the world influence the concept of victory and the possibilities of serious negotiations between Russians and Ukrainians.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/tutte-le-bufale-dei-putinisti-in-italia-su-nato-e-armi/ on Tue, 31 May 2022 04:42:47 +0000.