Putin second day in China
Ukraine, the new missiles of the (divided) West will not stop Putin
This night at the end of May and beginning of June was also characterized by Russian bombings in many cities in Ukraine. Bombings which, it seems, do not disturb the sleep and normal life of the citizens of Europe, primarily Italy, just a stone’s throw away, but which have continued to devastate Ukraine for over two years, with hundreds of thousands of dead and injured and negative consequences for economies around the world.
To say that the situation is difficult and that the issues to be resolved are not easy is even banal. Just as there is little need to go back to identify those responsible for the current situation of chaos, which is even more serious due to the international consequences of the war in the Middle East.
Today, the only certainty is that Putin does what he wants, determined to achieve his political-ideological-strategic objective: to take Ukraine and then stretch his jaws towards at least half of Europe, effectively returning to the post-1945 borders, with Russia at the center of the world.
The choice of Western countries, in particular the NATO member states, to support Ukraine by also sending weapons and trying to isolate Russia especially with economic sanctions, has not paid off. And he will not pay for the support that Putin receives from half the world, especially from China which smiles at the West but supports Russia in every way. And, probably, he will not even pay for the latest painful decision by the USA, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Finland and Poland to authorize Ukraine to use short-range missiles even outside its borders, in Russian territory, from where Putin does launch its rockets with devastating bombs.
Is it realistic to think that the Ukrainians can now successfully defend themselves in the North and prevent the breakthrough to Sumy? Putin knows that the West is not all that united against him and Russia against him. As is known, this latest decision to give the OK to Ukraine to use missiles outside the border did not have the consent of other NATO countries, including Italy.
Putin, already in Kharkiv, can invade with his troops and strike with his missiles as he pleases. Ukrainians can only try to defend themselves at home without trying to stop those missiles coming from neighboring Russia. To say that now, with the use of these new missiles, Ukraine will launch the decisive counterattack is an illusion. Worse, because this choice leads Putin to push for an invasion with more victims and more devastation and to threaten the West by putting the use of atomic bombs back on the table, starting with the so-called tactical ones (a single bomb can cause millions of deaths) already deployed in Belarus, on the border with Ukraine. Since the Cold War era there has been a “no first-use” clause, i.e. the commitment not to use nuclear weapons first, but this commitment can be revoked at any time.
For days, Russian television networks have been talking about what it means to use the atomic bomb and there are quite a few in the Putin clan who want “a demonstrative nuclear explosion” in Ukraine. The West’s zig-zag way of proceeding makes Putin understand the weakness of his adversaries, convincing him, if there were still any need, to insist on his imperialist plan, putting world peace at risk. Thus, the immediate outlet becomes only one. Leave to Putin the Ukrainian locations conquered by his invading army. Then? Then the risk is that of a story already seen with the invasion of Hitler’s troops on 1 September 1939, triggering the Second World War.
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