Crisis Ukraine, Russia fears NATO but Europe learns
fly announces the withdraw of the Russian armed forces from the border area with Ukraine and the end of the military threat to Ukraine. It is not enough: he also puts on the net a short documentary with the Russian tanks that go up by the dozen on the railway platforms to be brought back to the east. For many, the story should end here, but here the American President, despite his mild appearance, says he is skeptical. In short, he still does not believe in retirement. He awaits other conclusive facts. As the generals told him about him, the tanks that got on the train, to say, in Milan, could very well get off at Monza and return to Milan by their own means.
For millennia i belligerents – or those who are about to be – have lied outright. And it is normal: no one is required to be loyal to the enemy. But the technology it goes where the moral does not go. Today satellites are able to see a sheep from space, let alone if they can’t see tanks. So Biden waits not for Moscow to say that she is retiring but for the satellites to say that she is retiring.
Not only do Americans have these means, but third parties also have them, and these will be able to confirm or deny the claims of those concerned. In short, certain truths – such as the position of ships, tanks or columns of military trucks – can no longer be falsified. This is good. Because the madness of the commanders is limited.
There war it is such a complex event that von Moltke he was able to affirm that “no battle takes place in the way that was expected”. There are many surprises and variables. Some do not depend on man (like the climate and the meteors) others depend on chance, on errors or misunderstandings, and finally others are voluntarily determined by the stratagems of the enemy. For example, the camouflage of the lenses so that they do not stand out from the surrounding landscape. During the Second War World the British also built fake airplanes out of cardboard or wood for the Germans to waste bombs trying to destroy them.
Among the ploys there are obviously the lies. But they are all the more difficult to sell the more tools the opponent has to unmask them. This is why I believe that Putin is telling the truth: because he knows very well that the Americans, and everyone else, have the means to check the veracity of his statements. Lying would make a bad impression unnecessarily. The dividend would have to be very high to agree to pay this price.
Vice versa I don’t understand Putin when it says that fly can’t tolerate having the Born at the border. Not because everyone does not have the right to proclaim their intolerances, but because NATO already has it at the border with Estoniathe Latvia and the Romania. Furthermore, if we consider that the Belarus is halfway between a colony and a part of Russia, it would also have a border with Lithuania and the Poland.
Nor is it fully understood why it defines NATO as aggressive. Aggressive it would be if it intended to invade Russia. But NATO has been, since its foundation, a defensive alliance. If the Baltic States and others rushed to join NATO as soon as possible, it was out of fear of Russia, not to participate in its attack.
Even if it were not so by statute, the Born is mainly composed of States that currently (excluding the United States and maybe the Great Britain) are viscerally allergic to guns and war. It is in fact one of the greatest defects ofEuropean Union – a defect so great that it counts for very little in the international scenario – is the lack of serious armament and a unified command. From a military point of view, nobody takes it seriously.
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