Because I accuse Putin. Speak Dragons
“Putin saw us helpless, divided, intoxicated by our wealth: he was wrong. We will be ready to react. We do it to defend our values ”. Draghi's words in the Senate. Here is the full text
Below is the reply of the Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, on 1 March following the general discussion on Communications on the developments of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
“In the meantime, I would like to thank the Senate for the depth, breadth and sensitivity of all the interventions. I have little to add but quick remarks.
When there are big changes, and what we are experiencing is more than a big change, the feeling we all have is that we are entering a period completely different from everything we have seen so far, an existential period in which the future will radically change. . When there are these moments, the first impulse is to come to terms with oneself and with others, to say 'I had seen it right', 'you had not seen it right', 'you saw that I am right' or to say ' I was wrong, but there were good reasons'. I have a feeling this is marginal.
Now is not the time to come to terms with yourself and with others. It is time to come to terms with history, not the past but with that of today and tomorrow.
And I'm clearer. Our history, excluding the last 80 years, is a history of massacres, of wars, of tyrannies, of dictators, of very long wars, and this is the secular history that has accompanied us. And it is this story when I was referring to the jungle vines entering our garden of peace, it is this story that is entering our present and our future. It is with this story that we have to deal. At this point the past, what we have done, the mistakes, all this is useful because it improves personal awareness, but it is useless if it divides us. What we have before us is something that must unite us, it is a battle so that the future, especially the future of children, the future of young people, is preserved as much as possible as our past has been. A past of peace, of freedom. When these moments of great changes, of great contrasts occur, the reaction is a necessary reaction. But we must be careful, we must ensure that the reaction does not change our values, otherwise the opponent always wins, the story we want to keep out of our present wins.
Among these values, I have often spoken several times about democracy, freedom, peace, the desire for prosperity, there are also the decisions we would have taken recently to fight climate change, there is the ecological transition to defend. So when we talk about energy, about the importance of facing the present, we must do it with the awareness that it is a moment, a moment that we need to face this emergency but it does not change what we have decided about the fundamental importance of this struggle. to climate change.
Second point. I heard earlier that more Europe is needed, there are invocations and – in this sense – they are invocations that then leave the time they find because no one follows them. In reality, what has changed today is that there is more Europe, there is more Europe. Europe's response was prompt, firm, swift, strong and above all united. This is the big change from that somewhat unrealistic attitude in recent decades, not years, not months. This is a very important thing. They saw us helpless, perhaps Putin saw us helpless, he saw us divided, he saw us inebriated by our wealth: he was wrong. We have been and will be ready to react, to reply. And we don't do it because we want to defend our aggressive expansionism, I'm thinking of those who said that 'we want NATO to go everywhere': no. We don't do it for that. This is what he does. We don't. We do it to defend our values.
A third consideration concerns the need for diplomacy, the need for dialogue. I hoped, as you have seen, that this monstrosity could be avoided until the end. We did not succeed, partly because – in my opinion – it had all been premeditated for a long time.
As we move forward, we see certain actions: for example, the reserves of the Russian Central Bank have been increased six times since the invasion of Crimea to today. Because on that occasion there was actually a great difficulty. As is usually the case, some have been left on deposit with other central banks around the world and others on deposit with regular banks. There is hardly anything left, everything has been taken away. These things are not done in one day, they are done in many months. So I have no doubt that there was a lot of premeditation, a lot of preparation.
Returning to dialogue, we must think that in the end all this will come out with peace and to reach peace we need dialogue. But I have the impression that this is not the time.
Yesterday you saw President Macron's second and third attempts to speak, you saw every time that President Macron's statements are contradicted by statements from Russian sources.
Then there will come a time, and for this you must always keep your attention alert, you must grasp that moment when it arises. I have the impression that it is not there now. But we are ready in any case.
Today is a time when the Senate has discussed the fact that the founding values of our Republic are under threat. And on this occasion, faced with this threat, the Senate wished to express its support for President Zelensky, for the Ukrainians, for the support action that Italy is doing and will do on the humanitarian and government level.
And for this I want to thank you ".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/perche-accuso-putin-parla-draghi/ on Tue, 01 Mar 2022 16:57:54 +0000.