Why I say: Bravo Crosetto on the Russia-Ukraine war

29 January 20231 year ago babelfish

What exactly did Crosetto say? And why are Western countries sipping military aid to Ukraine? Giuliano Cazzola's comment

Finally the decision was made. The USA and the most important European countries (including Italy) will supply Ukraine with more sophisticated weaponry, capable – it is said – not only of withstanding the Russian army's spring offensive, but even of changing the tide of the conflict favor of the attacked people.

In Italy, the new fact has rekindled the controversy over military assistance to Ukraine, despite the fact that by a large majority (including some opposition groups) Parliament has approved a provision, similar to the one passed by the Draghi government, which attributes a " formal coverage" for the whole of 2023 to send aid, through a confidential relationship with Copasir.

THE CROSETTO-MEDVEDEV CLASH

The Kremlin protested and threatened heavy retaliation which gave rise to the multicolored pacifism of our house, which has returned to denouncing the dangers of an escalation and the risks of a nuclear war. Despite the solidity (including physical) of the minister Guido Crosetto (defined: "Rare fool" by Dmitri Medvedev, Putin's "translator of translators"), even within the majority that has responded united up to now, there are fronds circulating, which they filter with the moods of a public opinion which, for the most part, continues to think that the responsibility for the war, in the end, lies largely with the Americans.

THE CASE OF SURVEYS

The most recent and accredited polls reveal that, among our fellow citizens, there is a majority (pretty narrow, according to the poll published by La Stampa ) against the shipment of arms and NATO's involvement in the conflict which, according to these opinions, should conclude with an armistice, based on compromise conditions (i.e. Ukrainian surrender) whose acceptance should be forced on Zelenzky, increasingly identified as a former actor, pain in the ass, who refuses to resign himself to handing over to Putin that piece of Ukraine that the The Kremlin, with a bogus referendum, annexed it, without even having conquered it on a military level.

UKRAINE AGGRED

Poor Zelenzky – incidentally – is sometimes described as a puppet of the Americans and soon after, depending on the circumstances, he turns into a blackmailer who wants to drag NATO into war with Russia. It seems to me that, if things go the right way, the criticism to be leveled at the states that have promised the Ukrainian government new armaments should be the following: why didn't you do it sooner?

THE ROLE OF THE WEST

If tanks, planes, new generation missile interception systems can lead to a turning point in the defense of an attacked people, it is not clear why military assistance has been sipped, forcing the Ukrainian army to fight. for a long time, with inadequate means. If the West – as Putin's spokesmen say – has co-responsibilities in the methodical destruction of that country (an unarmed Ukraine would have surrendered or been defeated immediately), these must be attributed not to the delivery of weapons, but to the prudence with which we proceeded (starting from the refusal of a "no fly zone") to military assistance, in parallel with the arabesque gradualness of the sanctions.

THE KREMLIN'S PROPAGANDA

All of this is proof of the opposite of what the Kremlin propaganda claims: if Western institutions and governments could have avoided the conflict, they would not have missed the opportunity, as they did in 2014 with Crimea. I'll go further: if the military operation had been successful, deposing Zelenzky in a few days and replacing his government – as Berlusconi said – with respectable people, Western governments would have limited themselves to a few more sanctions, without exaggerating, from since economic sanctions create problems not only for those who receive them, but also for those who impose them. Then, faced with the heroism of the Ukrainian people and the unforeseen difficulties of the Russian invader, the Western chancelleries could not have turned away without losing face.

WESTERN SUPPORT

But it is significant that one year after the invasion, the quality of supplies changes (it will still take precious time) after having spent months measuring the range of cannons and missiles, to prevent them from crossing the borders of the aggressor state. In essence, the West has shown that it manages its support with excessive responsibility, unlike the Kremlin, which intends to bend the Ukrainian government by destroying infrastructure and massacring the civilian population.

THE HORRORS OF BUCHA

Anyone who has followed the debate in Italy in its karst course will not have forgotten the bad faith of those squalid characters, who from the top of a pulpit of presumed authority, provided Lavrov with arguments to refute Russian responsibility for the Bucha massacres. Now that the truth has been discovered, no one has felt the need to apologize. And who does not remember the accusations of Nazism against the Azov battalion, whose presence was the pretext for polluting the entire Ukrainian population. Today, on the side of Russia, Wagner's mercenaries (who boast of military successes that the Russians are not up to) are at the forefront; but no one finds fault, just as no one takes care of the supplies to Moscow's army, coming from Iran and North Korea.

THE AMBIGUITIES

The failure to invite Russian representatives to the Memorial Day ceremony in AUSCHWITZ caused a scandal – well received in the ambiguity of talk shows. Many have hastened to recall that the extermination camp was liberated by soldiers of the Red Army and that today's ostracism towards the Russians belongs to the logic of cancel culture. Putin did not hesitate to accuse Westerners of underestimating the USSR's contribution to the defeat of Nazism against which the Russian Federation is still fighting in Ukraine. No one could forget the great human and material sacrifice that that country and that people provided in the Second World War.

HISTORICAL COURSES AND RECOURSES

I think, however, that precisely for these reasons Putin should understand the spirit of resistance of the Ukrainians. Hitler's armies in June 1941 attacked the USSR on a front of more than 3 thousand km, from Leningrad to the Urals. In just a few weeks, they penetrated 1.5 thousand km into Russian territory. What was Stalin supposed to do? To ask for an armistice on the front line or – as he did – to resist and counter-attack, thanks to US-supplied weapons, all the way to Berlin?

PUTIN'S FOLLIES

I also imagine that Putin knows that AUSCHWITZ is in Poland. It will allow the Poles not to have forgotten that, in September 1939, their country, while trying to defend itself against the Germans, was invaded in the east by the Red Army (under the Ribbentrop – Molotov Pact) and that, in the spring of 1940, in the Katyn Forest, also in Poland, more than 22,000 Polish prisoners of war were executed by the Red Army. Tied with special knots that blocked the wrists and throat, they were all shot dead with a precise blow to the neck and thrown into various mass graves. The responsibility for the massacre was given to the Nazis. Not to mention, then, the totalitarian regime that was imposed on Poland for decades by the army of liberators, so much so that as soon as it was possible, after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Empire, the Polish governments rushed to join NATO under the banner of “ hic manebimus optime ”.

CROSETTO'S PHRASE

I did not vote for the current government, but I felt honored to belong to this country when Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said : "In my opinion, World War III would begin the moment the Russian tanks arrive in Kiev and on the borders of the European Union: anyone who says something different doesn't know the reality. Preventing this from happening is the only way to stop World War III”. To have peace you have to fight and win the war.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/perche-dico-bravo-crosetto-sulla-guerra-russia-ucraina/ on Sun, 29 Jan 2023 09:13:19 +0000.