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Because those said by the physicist Rovelli about Ukraine are nonsense

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Because those said by the physicist Rovelli about Ukraine are nonsense

"I am baffled by the words spoken by the physicist Carlo Rovelli about the war in Ukraine in La. Here's why". The commentary by Gregory Alegi, historian, journalist and professor at Luiss

Gregory Alegi, journalist, historian and professor at Luiss, commented on Twitter on Carlo Rovelli's statements, on La7, on the war in Ukraine.

I am disconcerted by the words spoken by the physicist Carlo Rovelli on the war in Ukraine on La7. In the studio I wouldn't have been able to react with Massimo Franco's composure, but from home I rearranged history, ethics, reality.

World War II was born out of Hitler's invasion of Poland, backed by an agreement with Stalin to carve up Poland. Hitler then attacked the USSR, Japan the USA, Mussolini France, UK, USA. Were they wrong to defend themselves?

Precisely because until 8/9/43 Italy had been Hitler's ally, on 25/4 we celebrate the liberation from German control, made above all by the Allies, by the Italian regular forces and by partisan formations of various origins. Did they hurt?”. ( Piero Calamandrei's epigraph for the «camerata Kesselring»)

Would the alternative of not resisting Hitler have caused less death, destruction, pain? Let's ask the victims of the Holocaust, those killed by the Wehrmacht. Let's ask the Chinese what the Japanese occupation has been like, from Nanjing onwards. Shouldn't they have defended themselves?

Alegi

The physicist Szilard, exiled from Hungary, led Einstein to ask Roosevelt to develop the atomic bomb before Heisenberg and his German colleagues working for Hitler did. Faced with the possibility of an atomic Nazi Germany, was Szilard wrong?

To avoid wars, the UN Charter asks member countries not to use/threat force against the territorial integrity or political independence of other states (art. 2) and recognized the right of self-defense (art.51). Do we deny this is the case in Ukraine?

Can a crime really be punished only by punishing all those who have committed others? Can you really fail only if you have never made a mistake in any evaluation? Black or white, no gray?.

“Così fan tutti” is a slippery topic, because it postulates the equality of “so” and because “two wrongs don't make a right”. Do you really think that if Saudi Arabia kills in Yemen , Russia has the right to bomb Kiev? And what about Syria?

Death accounting is bad. This is why it should not be exploited. To be scandalized by Ukraine, we have to wait for the 100k deaths since 2022 (including Russians, only direct) to reach those of Yemen since 2014 (377k, 60% indirect causes).

The same goes for those for and against the war. At the UN, only the veto prevented the Security Council from condemning the invasion like the Assembly. Turning a few against or abstentions into support of Russia's position is bad faith and connects to the heart of its political position: to let Russia do its thing because it threatens not "us" but "US domination". Opinion allowed by freedom, but why camouflage it as "peace"? Let it be said without hypocrisy that Russia can invade everyone (except us) and amen.

I believe that not reacting to the wars in Transnistria (1992), Chechnya (1999-2009), Georgia (2008), Ukraine (2014-22) convinced Russia to go further. I therefore believe that not defending Ukraine does not bring peace but increases the threat. As Niemöller says [in the famous verses on indifference to persecution].

On La7 I wouldn't have had time for such a complex speech, but I stole too much space on Twitter too. Thanks to those who have followed me here.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/perche-sono-castronerie-quelle-dette-dal-fisico-rovelli-sullucraina/ on Tue, 25 Apr 2023 08:24:22 +0000.