The short memory of certain (ex?) Friends of Putin
"Defense is always legitimate" leaves room for "there is always time for dialogue", the legitimate use of weapons gives way to "here to send weapons I shudder". Perhaps, we need to make peace with ourselves, before the fiscal one, writes Giorgio Provinciali
The author of the article, Giorgio Provinciali , was born in Italy and has lived with his partner, Alla, who was born in Ukraine for more than ten years. Provinciali deals with sports engineering. “After having lived the Ukrainian reality for more than ten years, my conscience requires me not to remain silent in the face of certain distortions of the historical reality of the facts about the war in Ukraine,” he tells Start Magazine. ( Startmag editorial team )
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THE COURAGE TO DO
The intercontinental phone call between "fraternal friends" certainly took place. The intention to mediate, in part. The request for "fraternal help" (let's call it "братская помощь"), yes. The silence has not broken but the line has been dictated.
Publishers, politicians, TV hosts, editors and writers of some newspapers have suddenly embraced the pacifist vein. The Tsar asks friends and "friends of friends" not to feed the interventionist trend and here are lined up entire platoons of what, courageously, Professor Cazzola defines "pacefondai" (Cazzola, 2022).
The Tsar is naked.
Everything is fine, but don't back up whoever shoots at him.
Who until yesterday took to the streets arguing (rightly) that "defense is always legitimate", "if someone enters my house, I have every right to defend myself" and "if you enter my house you must know what awaits you", today he suddenly declares himself against the use of weapons, if missiles this size are entering the house. Is the defense no longer so legitimate?
Yes, maybe it is, but only if it concerns us.
So here is the leitmotiv "ok but at their home, not at our home", which brought belly votes and distinguished a certain trend.
Strong with the weak and weak with the strong.
"Do you deal?" it does not become "Do you kill?", if the criminal murderer was until yesterday sitting at the table with us.
"Defense is always legitimate" leaves room for "there is always time for dialogue, always!", The legitimate use of weapons gives way to "here to send weapons I shudder". Perhaps it is necessary to make peace with ourselves, before the fiscal one.
"Italy repudiates war" means that our country and our values will never again be AGGRESSORS of other countries and values. But it also means that Italy undertakes to DEFEND itself and those values it represents, if they are the ones who are AGGREDITED.
Italy bears scars where the edges of the wounds never match. First of all, we should remember that, for certain interlocutors who are not very accustomed to dialogue, time must be touched immediately. The cry "In the name of God, stop this slaughter!" he got up in our language, from that St Peter's Square in the heart of our country, to remind us first of all the moral duties imposed on our consciences.
And U.S?
Sanctions no, they harm us. No weapons, they expose us. Sweatshirts and rosaries do not even reach the Polish border with Ukraine, which to be seen in the face is all the hypocrisy on which certain outings of today stand, repudiated daughters of yesterday's mottos.
Churchill wondered “which side are the Italians on this morning?”. We are masters in this.
Between yesterday's hawks and today's doves, fortunately, History saves us in the corner once again with a Prime Minister who reminds us what perhaps we were forgetting and, with a very high profile speech, reads rights and duties to our consciences.
Today, as ever, it is clear that to govern you need the courage to act.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/la-memoria-corta-di-certi-ex-amici-di-putin/ on Thu, 24 Mar 2022 11:53:13 +0000.