FLASH
Shkruar nga Walter Veltroni
"Russians, Russians, Americans..."
" I will do whatever I want with Cuba ," says the president of the United States. " We will use unprecedented weapons against anyone who interferes with our operation in Ukraine ," says Russian President Vladimir Putin. Here it is, the new world emerging in the "nights of fire" being experienced in Kiev and much of the troubled Middle East.
A world without rules, in which military power gives complete freedom to a new kind of leader, in which no one can feel safer if they simply do not support Trump's candidacy for the Nobel Prize, but did they create one for war? It is enough to face the threat of invasion, as happened to the peaceful Norwegian prime minister in relation to the even more peaceful Greenland.
But there is nothing left to laugh about. Let us hope that future generations will do so, observing the sequence of grotesque, ridiculous and childish events that contemporaries are forced to follow with a drugged numbness, a seductive breeze that carries, via telephones, the virus of absolute simplification, extreme radicalization and the uncertainty between reality and fiction.
We contemporaries hear proclamations of the need for extermination, ethnic cleansing, de-Ukrainization in order to de-Europeanize; we hear prime ministers pursued by justice proudly declaring that their goal is to " break the bones " of their enemies. A goal achieved, at least that much, only that much, if in Iran, instead of being liberated from a dictatorial and oppressive system, thousands of people, including more than two hundred children, died under bombings.
Let us pause for a moment, on this "night of fire ," on them. They were children, not regime leaders. They were guilty of no crime other than that of living. And in this time of unrepentant lies, Nixon paid much less, on Air Force One, President Trump was able to assert, with that Mel Brooks air, that the bombing of the Minab school, which killed 168 girls, was certainly the responsibility of the Iranians. While from the first hours, it emerged with complete clarity that it was in fact an American missile that hit that school. I do not know how the violation of the fundamental commandments is compatible with the grotesque prayer, a blasphemous act, performed in the Oval Office with the arms of those present resting on the rounded shoulders of the American president.
In a world without rules, everything is permitted. Including the new holy alliance, in the name of war and free hands, between the historical Cold War contenders. That red lane paved by the Americans to welcome Putin, responsible for the invasion of a sovereign state, a "special operation " that cost hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of injuries, the announcement of the lifting of sanctions by the US to resume negotiations on Russian oil, the harassment of Zelensky in the Oval Office and the farce of the campaign promise: "Within 24 hours I will make peace," they say of a new axis between Moscow and Washington, built on who knows what bricks. "Here the whole world seems made of glass, and it is collapsing like an old nativity scene. "
Putin and Trump certainly share a hatred for Europe and ultimately NATO, for multilateralism, for supranational institutions, clear support for the populist international system, aversion to those who do not applaud and bow their heads, and an aversion to a free media and civil rights.
For now, China has not implemented its plans regarding Taiwan. But if the new norm of international coexistence is strength and lack of rules, why should it feel limited in its expansionist goals tomorrow?
Let's face reality, without pretense. A world at the mercy of autocratic countries armed with powerful nuclear arsenals, capable, by undeclared pact, of militarily redefining their zones of influence in order to forcibly install disciplined puppet governments wherever they see fit, is a world that risks falling into the abyss of an Armageddon, which many new ideologists of the regenerative Apocalypse openly hope for.
But there are many grains of sand in the wheels of this plan. First, "we, the people ", public opinion, which, as demonstrated by the massive changes in the US consensus, is beginning to perceive the full risks of acting without a strategy. And then, the much-maligned Europe, which, despite all its divisions and fragility, has so far demonstrated a capacity for resilience and autonomy that, not coincidentally, makes it the target, "Russians, Russians, Americans" , of the new language of modern politics, the threat of tariffs, bombs or destabilization. The Italian government has taken a clear stance on Hormuz, born also, it is hoped, from the desire to regain autonomy from Trump and to continue supporting Ukraine.
Finally, the emergence of the idea, supported by the Canadian Prime Minister, of a convergence of middle powers to balance the new global disorder. These are signs, but important ones.
It is legitimate, perhaps obligatory, to have the same optimism as Lucio Dalla at the end of Futura: " We wait for the light to return! Let us hear a voice! We wait, without fear, for tomorrow! " / Adapted from "Pamphlet" by "Corriere della Sera"
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