Yesterday two commentators Angelo Panebianco on Corriere della Sera and Ezio Mauro on Republic have thrown the weight of their authority to counter the hypocrisies and falsehoods of the so-called pacifists, the haters of Western civilization, the fools who fill the president of Ukraine of insolence evidently not having serious arguments to put forward.
In such a serious moment in our history, in which the future of the West is at stake, welcome Zelensky to Sanremo to remind us that there is a people over there who woke up one morning under the bombs and did not surrender to the invader's arrogance, but took up arms and fought with indomitable will for their freedom and to restore correct law international.
Proxy War? A corbellery
Panebianco has shown that those who argue that the Ukrainians are fighting a war in the interests of others (a proxy war in which the real actors are the USA and NATO) they say a resounding nonsense. If they are in bad faith they repeat the slogans issued by Moscow, if they are in good faith they confuse everyone's just and normal aspiration for peace with the hypocrisy of not wanting to look at reality, with the fear of getting involved (not materially ) but not even of heart and mind, with the indifference that, as the President Mattarella, is an accomplice in the aggression just as in 38 it was an accomplice in the racial laws and then in the massacres of innocents.
Neutrality is a war multiplier
Mauro was even tougher, perhaps because he wanted to make up for some serious slides in his newspaper, first of all that of shooting the headline "Escalation" in large letters at the first deliver more modern tanks to bolster Ukrainian defenses, which it did not do when Putin began throwing one missile rain on Ukrainian cities affecting civilian infrastructure. Now that was escalation!
Mauro argues that in democracies it is natural for it to be created addiction and fatigue even in the most atrocious situations. But this is also the fault of the many intellectuals and information workers they have equated aggressor and assaulted, began to say that Kiev's resistance is senseless, fueled everyone's normal fear of the possible expansion of the war. But – says Mauro – this neutrality in the face of abuse is one regenerative madness of conflict, a war multiplier.
Above all, it is singular that these positions of neutrality (which means surrender) can be supported in the name of the left which is the champion of peace but in justice and freedom.
Perhaps, as noted by Paolo Mazzanti, director of Askanews, as the Sanremo Music Festival is very popular in Russia, Putin unleashed his Italian representatives, from Conte to Salvini, passing through the Travaglios and the Vauros, to try to cancel this appearance fearing that Zelensky more than the Italians might try to open the eyes of the Russians who are blinded by the Kremlin's obsessive propaganda.
It is enough to have a little history in mind to understand that Europe, already weak and disunited enough, cannot afford to let such aggression pass on its doorstep. It would be enough to look at the map to understand that if Putin conquers the whole of Ukraine, the next day Hungary would leave Brussels to get under the umbrella of Moscow and then we would have Russian tanks on the border of Austria and Germany. Is that okay? Could our civilization, even before our wealth, withstand such a shock?
The West is cautious in sending arms
In truth, by examining NATO's acts and declarations objectively, it can be seen that the West (including the USA) has been very prudent in sending arms and that the condemnation of Russian aggression has never come about with bellicose and insulting words like those pronounced by Moscow towards us. Above all, NATO has never said it aims to conquer Russian territory or to aim for a regime change in Moscow. Even in the event of the dissolution of the Russian army, NATO would curb the desire for revenge of the Ukrainians and would never allow the occupation of territories beyond the Ukrainian ones established thirty years ago. It is therefore obvious that Putin could now save his seat by ending the war and negotiating from good positions a peace that can be honorable or that in any case his propaganda can sell as such.
Those who think, like Hon Giro di Sant'Egidio that it is no longer necessary to send arms and that this would put an end to hostilities, delude themselves that peace can be built without justice and in the enslavement of millions. Let's be serious. Let's get Zelensky talking and let's not listen to Putin's blatant lies.
