Stefania Craxi and, in the background, the image of her father Bettino (IPA)
“Russia is under censorship: it is much worse now than under communism”
“Use all possible tools to put pressure on Moscow and inhibit the conflict. The Russian people are also beginning to react to Putin’s dictatorship.” Like this Stefania Craxisenator (he likes to be called that, ed) of Forza Italia and vice president of the Foreign Affairs Commission of Palazzo Madama, in an interview with Affaritaliani.it, on the day of the meeting between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations to seek a possible solution to war.
What to expect from these negotiations?
“We must hope that they will lead to something. We must do everything so that the doors to diplomacy do not close and the fighting immediately ceases. The images of this war turn the clock back in history. There was no talk of the nuclear threat since the 70s, me. I remember it. Certainly the moving resistance of Ukraine has put the Russian army in difficulty. And this could bring some glimmers to the negotiating table “.
How do you judge the EU’s reaction to the Russian invasion?
“Certainly the response of the West for once has been strong, cohesive and must be more and more. We must use all the weapons we have, not the physical ones, to isolate Russia and inhibit the conflict”.
Do you also approve of Draghi’s decision to say yes to the exclusion of Russia from Swift?
“We must use all the tools at our disposal to prevent the advance of the conflict, the taking of Ukraine and the change of regime. All the pressure weapons possible and imaginable at this moment must be put in place”.
What scenario is taking shape at the international level?
“This conflict creates an unprecedented scenario on the international level. If we cannot speak of a new cold war or a new unprecedented Iron Curtain, we are close to it. Certainly relations with the West of Russia will be totally deteriorated, if not non-existent. Putin says that there is not only the West, but for the moment the Chinese are cautious. I do not know if this is because they want to use the argument of territorial integrity to invade Taiwan, or whether the nuclear threat has a the world was a little frozen. “
What consequences for Putin internally?
“Russia is a country under censorship, which is experiencing an unprecedented dictatorship, because even under Communism there was not a single man in charge, but the Politburo was there. The Russian people are reacting somewhat to this dictatorship. Yes. they are seeing street demonstrations, despite the iron fist used by Putin. Suslov (political adviser of the Kremlin, ed) says that Putin wants to go down in history, certainly he will go down in history, not in a nice way “.
It is difficult to make comparisons with such different historical periods, but how do you think Bettino Craxi would have acted as Italian Prime Minister in the face of this crisis?
“Craxi probably would have acted a long time ago.”
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