2023-12-17 07:13:22
I haven’t stopped thinking regarding Ukraine for days, especially since President Zelenzki’s presence at the inauguration of Javier Milei. Ukraine seems to me to be a case comparable to that of the small European countries that Hitler annexed before and during the Second War, alleging such criminal reasons as the defense of “living space” or the protection of German descendants. There is not a single viable justification for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine although Russian propaganda floods social networks with fallacies and accusations of all kinds once morest Ukrainians (even that of being Nazis, as many militants of the previous government repeated) and of corrupting politicians of all countries. Ukraine is one of the few international controversies in which the truth is exclusively on one side, as it was on Poland’s side in 1939.
And yet, with obscene indifference, the Russian autocrat is granted the right to take over a country that in no way threatens or offends him. The excuses for silence and acquiescence are various and start from “don’t get involved” because it is “another person’s war”, an argument of paradigmatic cowardice that was used even in the face of the attempted systematic extermination of the Jews. The most incomprehensible thing regarding the Ukrainian case is that Putin’s allies and defenders are counted on both the left and the right. Both Lula (capable of a gesture not only of complicity with Putin but of unusual cruelty such as not receiving Zelensky) from one side and Víktor Orban from the other (who vetoes Ukraine’s entry into the European Union and drags his colleagues like the Slovakian Michal Fico to interrupt the shipment of weapons to the Ukrainians) bow to the will of a ruthless power and try (Lula has said it explicitly) to impose on Ukraine a peace that is not only unworthy but a death sentence deferred.
Perhaps more grotesque is what is happening in the United States, where the Republicans condition the military aid proposed by Biden (the only one that, due to its volume, can have a decisive impact on the course of the war) on the approval of their projects to restrict Latin American immigration, as if both initiatives had some relationship. In any case, the pro-Russian lobby, that very Soviet mixture of diplomacy, propaganda, defamation, espionage and blackmail, is overwhelming on all continents and, in South America, only the Milei administration seems to assume an unconditional defense of Ukraine. This position should serve as an example, especially because it does not correspond to an ideological alignment. Proof of this is that Bolsonaro, close to Milei, has a position as favorable to Putin as his archrival Lula. It is as if the love for dictatorships were a plague that makes no political distinctions.
The case of Ukraine is a new test for civilization. A test similar to the one he overcame eighty years ago when, following many hesitation, he decided to confront Hitler. A test similar to what it means to speak out without restrictions once morest the terrorist aggression once morest Israel. But it seems that the Ukrainian defiance is resulting in a defeat for the forces of good. That is why I am very afraid for Ukraine, the small country that faces the monster.
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