Are we really sure that Putin’s Russia is isolated in the world?

23 March 20222 years ago babelfish

Putin and surroundings. Press review bits by Lodovico Festa per Tempi on Russia's war on Ukraine

ALL AGAINST RUSSIA? ARE YOU SAFE? …

On Formiche Francesco Bechis writes: " Putin's charm has struck almost all parties, some more and some (much) less, he intoxicated a part of the industrial world, busy until the last minute, even with tanks already on the road to Kiev, to snatch concessions and dig preferential channels. By helping to outline the identikit of a country, like it or not, that has become the playground of the Russian "cutting power" ».

In our information that he wore the helmet there is a notable lack of critical analysis. In France the pro-Putin parties are the Lepene one given at 20 percent, the extremist France Insoumise given at 13 percent, the old PCF at 4 percent, then there is the uncertain movement of Éric Zemmour at 10 percent. Only the green Yannick Jadot asked for Total's withdrawal from Moscow. In Spain there is a movement like Podemos very uncertain about military support for Ukraine, while the socialist premier, who denounced the Russophobic movement Vox (a precious ally of the Polish conservatives, the main enemies of Moscow), employed six months before speaking on the phone with Joe Biden, because he has too close ties with the Russophile Madurian Caracas. And this not to mention Gerhard Schröder who continues to roam around Moscow and to be a member of the SPD, the party of the German chancellor in office.

ONLY LOBBY PRO RUSSIA IN ITALY? …

In the Subsidiary Gennaro da Varzi writes: « But the positions taken by the party's" pacifist "wing, increasingly intolerant of the positions of the secretary, have not escaped either. The distancing of Graziano Delrio, who until a few months ago was the head of the group in the Chamber, was surprised. The positions of the party's historical left are more predictable, but this time it has relied on a new face to make its voice heard. In fact, a new leadership within the Democratic Party has emerged in recent weeks around Elly Schlein, the young vice-president of the Emilia-Romagna region. His clear refusal to accept without question the change in favor of new military spending, of the single European defense, of the escalation towards a new cold war ».

The truth is that Italian politics after Giorgio Napolitano's commissioning from above is entrusted (especially on the left) more to venture companies often linked to foreign influences than to a real relationship with Italian society and Delrio, on his side, is linked to the pro-Chinese lobby of Prodiano.

DO WE DESTABILIZE THE SECOND NUCLEAR POWER? …

On Leek Soup Toni Capuozzo writes: « Enthusiastic by the opportunity to defeat not only the invasion, but the Russian regime, to get rid of Putin. No one wondering about the aftermath, and no one wondering how long it can last, and how many lives it will cost, and which infections. Russia is not just any Libya to provoke. The European Union looks like a NATO in civilian clothes, the leaders seem general, and they treat the issue as if it were an electoral campaign. The only ones to show prudence are the real generals, who know the risks ».

It is morally necessary to stay with the attacked Ukraine, it is right to arm it because you are drawn from positions of strength and it is therefore symmetrically correct to put sanctions on Moscow to weaken it. But pursuing the strategy of destabilizing the planet's second nuclear power without knowing what outcome this attempt will have is irresponsible.

MAP OF THE LITTLE ANTI PUTINIANS

On Dagospia there is an interview by Federico Novella on the Truth with Marco Carnelos, former Italian ambassador to Iraq, who says: « Several signs make me fear that Moscow is much less isolated than what is being told these days. It has been substantially sanctioned only by Western democracies, the rest of the world seems reluctant or indifferent. Syrian President Assad was on a visit to the Emirates. Saudi Arabia refuses to increase oil production to calm its price, and plans to trade with Beijing in Chinese currency. India refuses to sanction Russia, and quadruples its oil purchases from Moscow. In short, even some powers allied or friends of the USA are starting to show signs of impatience. The entire international financial system that revolves around the dollar risks setbacks. And the consequences of this conflict could be completely unpredictable, both politically and economically ».

In the fog of the war, it happens to lose sight of the actual reality of things. This does not help to understand what is really going on.

FRENCH RAYS IN RUSSIA

On Startmag Marco Dell'Aguzzo writes: « In addition to Renault, other important French companies have shown no intention of abandoning the Russian market. These include the energy company Total Energies, which owns a 19.4 per cent stake in Novatek (the largest Russian liquefied gas producer) and significant stakes in two LNG projects: Yamal Lng (20 per cent) and Arctic Lng 2 (10 percent). British oil companies BP and Shell also own important assets in the country, but have decided to forgo the operations nonetheless. Total Energies has however specified that it will not allocate funds for new projects in Russia. Supermarket chain Auchan, DIY company Leroy Merlin and sporting goods company Decathlon also continue to operate in Russia. Auchan owns 311 stores in the country, Leroy Merlin has 112 and Decathlon 60. Indeed, according to the Telegraph sources, Leroy Merlin is considering an expansion of the presence in Russia, taking advantage of the withdrawal of the competitors ".

Here is an aspect of real reality, seen first of all from Paris, with which to deal.

HOW WILL GERMAN FOREIGN POLICY CHANGE?

On Startmag Pierluigi Mennitti writes: « They abandon the neutral ground of studies and take the field for a new German policy towards Russia ninety-nine experts from Eastern Europe, through a manifesto published in the media and on social media. It was signed by university professors and researchers, historians, publicists, directors of think tanks and foundations and also former foreign ministers, such as the Polish Radek Sikorski (who is also the husband of the American historian Anne Applebaum) and Markus Meckel, minister of the last government of the GDR (the only one voted in free elections after the fall of the Berlin Wall). They represent the backbone of the Central European intelligentsia, and in particular the German one, as far as studies on Eastern Europe are concerned. Theirs is above all an indictment of German politics, which decrees the failure of Ostpolitik in the version reformulated first by Gerhard Schröder and then by Angela Merkel in the last two decades. A policy based "on the hope of attenuating Moscow's growing neo-imperialist ambitions with a combination of intense diplomacy, contractual integration and multiple commercial relations". Germany, the signatories continue, has deliberately underestimated Russian actions in Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine (2014), signing in 2015, i.e. a year after the annexation of Crimea and the pseudo civil war in Donbass, the agreement for the deposit on the seabed of the Baltic Sea of the pipes of the Nord Stream 2 ».

The road to building a coherent German foreign policy will not be short.

ISOLATED FLY?

On Formiche Francesco De Palo writes: « London said it was disappointed by the Indian posture on the war in Ukraine. According to Anne-Marie Trevelyan, UK Minister of Commerce, India still remains an "incredibly important trading partner", which is why it will be important to ensure that Putin is unable to finance the war in Ukraine in the future. Why doesn't New Delhi condemn the Russian war? The Modi government is seriously considering buying Russian oil, despite US sanctions against Moscow. At that point, a significant issue will open up in the Atlantic alliance that looks to India as a precious interlocutor at those latitudes " .

What is happening must be thoroughly analyzed before arguing that Moscow is completely isolated.

SIGN UP TO PROPAGANDA?

In the daily New Compass Anna Bono writes: « South Africa, another country which abstained on 1 March, then openly took the side of Russia. President Cyril Ramaphosa, after having flatly denied his Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor, who in a statement had asked for Moscow's withdrawal from Ukraine, on 17 March accused NATO of having triggered the war in Ukraine. While not approving of the use of force. "War would have been avoided," he said, "if NATO had listened to its own leaders and military who have warned over the years that an eastward expansion would have increased, not reduced, instability in the region." His predecessor, Jacob Zuma, still a leader of the ruling party, the ANC, has gone further. Its foundation issued a statement in which Putin's decision is defined as "justifiable" ».

Here is another element to be considered by those who want to come to terms with reality and not surrender to propaganda.

Extract of an article published on Tempi, here the full version

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/siamo-proprio-sicuri-che-la-russia-di-putin-sia-isolata-nel-mondo/ on Wed, 23 Mar 2022 11:18:23 +0000.