“Well cooked and ready to be served at the table. This is probably what Vladimir Putin thinks of us Westerners as he watches our moves. Faced with international challenges, democracies can do nothing if they do not have public opinions behind them, united or almost united. And Putin certainly doesn’t see that compactness. In words, there is awareness in the West of how catastrophic, and not only for the Ukrainians, a Russian victory in Ukraine would be. In words”. Angelo Panebianco writes this in an editorial in Corriere della Sera, according to which “the facts say otherwise, the facts say that Western governments struggle to maintain a united front on the Ukrainian crisis and struggle to do so because their public opinions are divided“.
“While the war is going badly for Ukraine, Westerners are sending contradictory signals, even if consistent with their respective national traditions. If Emmanuel Macron reiterates that if things get really bad, Westerners should intervene directly in Ukraine, other European governments ( Germans and Italians in the lead) distance themselves from it, deny it: weapons yes, soldiers on the ground no, never. Apart from the fact that these divisions make it clear how chimerical there is in many beautiful speeches on common European defence, as is thought. that differences of this magnitude are interpreted by Kremlin strategists?”, underlines the editorialist.
According to Panebianco, “in any case it is a kind of miracle that so far there have been no desertions, that no European government has broken the front, stopped supporting Ukraine. Taking into account the fact that within them there are significant currents of opinion that, in the name of peace, would like to give Ukraine to Putin. Believing or pretending to believe that, having eaten Ukraine, Russia would finally be satisfied, it would still not have an appetite.”
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