What the Di Cesare nonsense conceals about NATO and Russia
A part of the establishment is moving, in all possible places, for a policy of appeasement towards Vladimir Putin. Giuliano Cazzola's comment
I am ready to make a bet. Soon there will be some of the no vax veterans, who switched to no war to stay with Putin, who will promote this theory: it is proven that, with anti-covid-19 vaccinations, the “ strong powers '' (which, as the Qanons claim, they are the other side of the coin of the Democratic Party) have had a microchip injected into billions of people (also for this reason they are no longer on the market) which steals their will and induces them to obey without doing requests. At this moment the Great Reset has unleashed warlike tensions in the West against Vladimir Putin's Russia, because – having that government failed with its own vaccine – the Russian people were not integrated into the infamous project of absolute world domination. And therefore it must be humiliated with weapons by NATO, which is the military alliance responsible for the war in Ukraine and the aggression of Russia. The post of prof. Donatella Di Cesare is not very far from professing these delusions.
The untimely annexation of Sweden and Finland to NATO would be a further escalation, a challenge to the Russian Federation, an act of war while pretending to talk about peace. Before the fears of the Swedes and Finns there is the need for a cohabitation of the European peoples.
– Donatella Di Cesare (@DiDonadice) May 12, 2022
How can we talk about '' annexation '' to NATO when a parliament of a democratic country like Finland asks to join a defensive military alliance? The Finnish and Swedish peoples – who through their legitimate institutions decide to interrupt an international position of historical neutrality – are accused of being "afraid", as if they have no reason. Moreover, Finland has ancient tensions with the USSR (even before with the Tsarist Empire of which Russia considers itself heir). And in the so-called winter war between 1939 and 1940, Finland valiantly opposed the Soviet invasion.
Is it so hard to understand that statements like these blatantly distort the truth? As the president of Copasir, Adolfo Urso, wished to confirm, "the propaganda machine also operates in our country". Copasir denounces a systemic action of disinformation in the world of the web, of communication but also of culture and in universities. “This happens in a geopolitical context in which autocratic regimes tend to condition Western democracies”, Urso reiterated: “The Russian information machine, like the Chinese one, is continuously active ''. In reality, Putin's spies and his hackers can devote themselves to other countries, so much so that we can manage disinformation on our own. Let's consider some events of the week ending: Putin's speech on May 9; the concluding speech by Emmanuel Macron in Strasbourg; Mario Draghi's statements in Washington on the occasion of his meetings with Joe Biden. Important openings for a dialogue of peace were attributed to Putin's propaganda speech, without noticing the series of lies with which he explained the reasons for his adventure in Ukraine.
Russia – according to the Tsar – was potentially under attack, it was necessary to take a single decision that could not absolutely be inevitable, that of defending our country ''. It will be appropriate to have Putin answer to Putin by a Russian political analyst, the director of the Russian Council for International Affairs (Riac), Ivan Timofeev, who has an institutional role, who is not an opponent of the Kremlin boss and who expressed these views on the official site of the Council. Before the armed attack '' Russia still had ample room for maneuver. Its military might was sufficient to suppress any threat from the West for decades to come, even in the case of the more active militarization of Ukraine by the United States and its allies. The situation in Donbas remained tense but stable. Civilian casualties reached a peak in the early years of the conflict in 2014-2015, but then – take note of those who gossip about genocide, (ed) – there have been practically no more. There were 9 civilian casualties and in 2019 and 2020, compared to 7 in 2021, and 160, 44 and 77 respective military casualties. Ukraine's great offensive in Donbas was in all likelihood doomed to failure. Obviously, Ukraine remained a hostile state, but the West had significantly reduced its focus on Kyiv compared to 2014. Strictly speaking, the West was ready to coexist with both Russian Crimea and the frozen situation in Donbas ''.
The writer considers this analysis to be very focused, especially since it is confirmed in the evaluation of the practically propaganda consequences of the sanctions decided after 2014. Obviously – continues Timofeev with a disenchanted tone – NATO has reaffirmed the containment of Russia as one of its key objectives since 2014. However, most EU countries, especially Germany, had been reluctant to increase defense spending and hindered it in every way. Sanctions against Russia had stabilized. The actual restrictive measures had clearly been less than the media noise surrounding them, and the market reaction had also been weak. '' Then he added: '' It is simply impossible to predict the trajectory of the future under current conditions. However, it is useful to remember that the Soviet Union collapsed under much more favorable international circumstances. ''
These considerations – although published by Il Foglio – have gone unnoticed, while many of us have become the protagonists of real falsifications. It is paradoxical that Macron was credited with what he never said, namely that Russia should not be humiliated. Yet despite the denials through the publication of the text of the speech, the media continue to give that version. In the same way, a statement by the NATO secretary general was distorted, accusing him of wanting to impose on Ukraine the line to be taken, regarding Crimea, in the event of possible negotiations. Because if Zelenzky dares to remember that the peninsula belonged to Ukraine, a chorus of accusations arises from us as if he wanted to steal a piece of its territory from Russia. Then when Draghi in the US said that it is up to Ukraine to define its negotiating position, he was criticized because we must not leave the ball to Zelensky who, spurred on by the battles on the field, does not exclude the possibility of winning (it would be enough that the Russian troops do not even succeeded in the reduced objective of occupying the Donbass and passing through Odessa to reach Transnistria. Mario Draghi, due to the outcome of his visit to the USA, is pulled from all sides. The imbeciles insist on representing Draghi as the head of a government who went to take orders and proved – compared to Macron and Sholz – the most Atlanticist of European leaders. The most astute underline his commitment to induce – as a knight of a new Europe not prone to NATO – Biden to more mild advice .
What is stunned is not only the one-way pacifist (sub) culture; this is not the usual disinformation of social media. Today there is a substantial part of the establishment that moves, in all possible places, for a policy of appeasement towards Vladimir Putin. This is not new. Even in the long armistice between the two world wars of the last century, a part of the European ruling classes cultivated the idea of pleasing Hitler in an anti-USSR key (and remained with an inch of nose in the aftermath of the Ribbentrob-Molotov Pact with of Poland). At that time there were ideologies with their institutional and economic model repercussions. Today it is just a question of business, economic relations and supplies and exports.
Moreover, if Putin is able to guarantee anything to the West, it is certainly not a socialist system, but a mafia-oligarch-liberal order above good and evil (with all due respect to many '' whitewashed graves '' who continue to exchange Russia with the USSR). However, it is with the powerful lobby, which controls information to the point of deforming it, that Draghi will have to deal with.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/che-cosa-celano-le-castronerie-alla-di-cesare-su-nato-e-russia/ on Fri, 13 May 2022 05:29:18 +0000.