The war is already out of control

The war in the country, whose name means “borderland” in the Slavic language, seems to be completely out of control and no one is doing anything to stop it, quite the contrary.

Citizens are demobilized or feel powerless: in Russia, it is a dictatorship because our media never gets tired of repeating it with reason, and anyone who protests is in danger of being imprisoned, and because in our democratic West one thought prevails.

Meanwhile, in the United States, which is absolutely key to conflict resolution, its president says one thing one day and another the next.

One day, he warns his Democratic Party co-religionists of a possible Armageddon, because no one can be sure that the Kremlin leader will not use nuclear weapons when cornered.

And a day later, Joe Biden describes the Russian president as a “rational actor” who “made a huge miscalculation” by invading the neighboring country in the belief that he would be greeted “with open arms” by Ukrainians.

In fact, many of us, among the dazed and desperate, took part in what appears to be another version of the so-called “chicken game,” popular with young Americans accused of testosterone in the fifties, who bet to see who would jump their test first. cars thrown off a cliff.

But this is much more serious because tens of thousands of people, both military and civilian, die on both sides, and a country that is one of the largest in Europe is brutally destroyed.

Meanwhile, European governments, like Washington, determined to teach Russia a lesson, can only take measures to try to monetize the enormous economic impact of the war on their own citizens.

Who speaks in these moments of peace? The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskiy, strengthened by the support he received from the West, talks about taking back all the lands occupied by the enemy, including the Crimea.

And in turn, Vladimir Putin has not the slightest intention of abandoning the Russian-speaking Ukrainians throughout this peninsula, who have expressed their desire to be part of Greater Russia in the referendums without international guarantees.

In the meantime, does anyone think what will happen to these Russian-speaking citizens in a new Ukraine dominated by nationalist hatred between the two communities?

After the so-called Euromaydan revolution, is it not right there in the discrimination of a minority that does not want to sever all ties with Russia? current conflict?

Wasn’t that exactly the ethno-cultural concerns that the Ukrainians, Russians, French and Germans worked on, and which were taken into account in the Minsk agreements, which seem to be completely forgotten today?

Forgotten as timely warnings by senior diplomats and political scientists like Henry Kissinger or George Kennan, like the latter, in the sense that it would be a “tragic mistake” to seek NATO enlargement by Washington.

Precaution that is already of the past. Rather, other kinds of warnings are heard today, such as those given by David Petraeus, a retired officer and former CIA director, who advised “Sunk the Russian nuclear fleet in the Black Sea” if Putin was crazy to use a nuclear weapon. tactical nuclear.