All the putinians of the Italian putinians on arms to Ukraine
According to our own Putinians, the Ukrainians must not resist the Russian invader but simply surrender. Polillo's comment
Our own Putinians, not many to tell the truth, use the same stratagem, more or less. Condemnation in principle of the invasion of the Russian tyrant. A little hypocritical tears for the extermination of civilians. War is war. And the invitation to "put flowers in your cannons" according to an old song of the Giants. As much Putin, as Antonio Guterres, UN secretary general had to see, doesn't give a damn. Except then, when that song was fashionable, there was the dirty war. And it was right to fight for peace, which would have meant, as it did later, the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam and the end of that long imperialist conflict. Which was even then a war between East and West. Between communists and liberal democracies. But no one dreamed of putting attackers and aggressors on the same level. The choice of their political regime was up to the Vietnamese people alone.
They seem things so obvious that they seem almost trivial. Except that today all this takes on a particular meaning, given the dialectical mystifications that Putin's men resort to. The reasoning is the following. We are facing a war through intermediaries and to the detriment of the Ukrainians. On the one hand Joe Biden and Boris Johnson, in defense of the "dirty interests" of their respective countries, on the other Vladimir Putin, head of the Russian forces. In the middle, the European "lackeys". Especially Mario Draghi's Italy, given that the Germans and the French, and therefore Macron and Scholz, did not seem (yesterday, less today) so condescending. The quotation marks are a reminder of the gentle words of Marco Travaglio in Lilly Gruber's good living room.
And here then is that any distinction, at best, fails. The ongoing confrontation could take place anywhere in the world. That it takes place in Ukraine is mere coincidence. Extreme outrage against a people who fight tooth and nail for their land and their freedoms. A people considered a sort of "useful idiot" subservient to the wishes of NATO. Completely subjugated by a foreign power – the United States and Great Britain – which aims only to wear down Putin's power. A people, which must also be denied the honor of arms.
Yes, because these can injure the invading army. To whom instead – the exhortation of that kind of professor who responds to the name of Alessandro Orsini – they must simply surrender. As happened in Hungary in 1956 or in Czechoslovakia in 1968. Because history is never magistra vitae . Because years later we have forgotten how Imre Nagy, the Hungarian leader who was also a communist, died. Or the story of Alexander Dubcek to which he fared a thousand times better. Ostracism for about 20 years (from 1970 to 1989) and then the office of president of the Czechoslovakia Federal Assembly, once freed from the yoke of the Soviets.
Other times? Sure. But the ferocity of that time has certainly not diminished. Indeed those same forces, the heroic resisters of Stalingrad, have turned into the massacres of Bucha. To mark a distance that appears sidereal. Things that Putin's friends don't see or pretend not to see. Instead, they are outreaching to demand a sort of one-way disarmament. Russian troops can make use of carpet bombing, subsonic missiles, with the equipment of tanks and planes. But woe to think that the Ukrainians will be able to respond. Because, if that were the case, the threat of a third world war would become looming.
This position is obviously unsustainable when the Vatican itself, through both Pope Francis and the Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, recognizes Ukraine's "right" to defense. And then, here is the rapid conversion. Weapons can also be sent, but as long as they are only defensive. The height of ridicule.
When can a weapon be defined as defensive? Were the missiles that sank the Moskva? Are anti-tank weapons effective? Nor can the discourse on its scope be valid. A very short-range missile can be used on Russian soil, given the long territorial continuity between the two countries.
The truth is that supporters of this bizarre theory, especially the 5-star ventriloquists, have so many of those skeletons in their closets that they are suffocated. Do not forget what happened in the past legislature, when there was no obstacle to government positions: the motion presented to the Chamber of Deputies by Beppe Grillo against NATO, rejected both in the Commission and in the Chamber. The support given to the Government by Nicolás Maduro, in Venezuela. The guerrilla theses of Alessandro Di Battista. The same union with Matteo Salvini's League, in the following legislature, ( first fully populist government , according to the definition of the Post ) will find in the anti-European cement, and in the squint towards Russia and China, one of its most qualifying moments.
The weight of these political positions, which only the ingenuity of Vito Petrocelli, the president of the Senate Foreign Commission, who praises the "liberation" with the "Z" of the Russian occupation troops, makes clear, weighs on the strength of those forces policies. He forces Giuseppe Conte himself to reckless acrobatics to keep a foot in the government's stirrup and at the same time not to break with that part of the movement, which sees the West as the enemy to beat. The fact that street artists and acrobats end up converging on this ridge is more than a foregone conclusion. It is part of the oldest Italian tradition: captains of fortune and mercenary troops in the service of warlords. Better if foreign potentates. Non-exclusive feature of the 14th century.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/armi-ucraina-filorussi-italia/ on Fri, 29 Apr 2022 08:16:06 +0000.