If there weren’t at least a million dead and maimed, the war in Ukraine would seem like pure cabaret.
As though he’d started reading il Fatto three years late, Zelensky has discovered that “Ukraine doesn’t have the forces needed to retake the Donbas and Crimea controlled by the Russians. We can only rely on international diplomatic pressure to force Putin to come to the negotiating table.” He says this just hours after his regime, in a gesture of captatio benevolentiae, blew up a Russian general and his deputy in Moscow. Most importantly, this comes from the same person who, in October 2022, signed a decree forbidding any negotiations with Putin and then organized “peace conferences” without Russia’s participation.
Rutte, the NATO secretary, belches: “If we talk too much about peace, we favor the Russians” — in other words, those who have won the war. He then repeats, parrot-like, as if it were still February 2022, that “Kyiv must be placed in a position of strength to decide when and how to open negotiations.” Meanwhile, as he decides the timing and manner, the Russians will kill thousands more Ukrainians and occupy more Ukrainian territory.
The only ones more foolish than him are Ursula “Bomberleyen” and the warmongering fools across the right, center, and pseudo-left who voted for her. Completely detached from reality — even now with Zelensky conceding defeat — after fourteen sanctions packages that have hurt the sanctioning countries more than Russia, they prepare the fifteenth and sixteenth, still telling us that “the longer the war, the higher the price the Russian economy will pay.” Meanwhile, EU governments are on the brink and falling like bowling pins. Yet the euro-imbecile announces another “€13 billion to Kyiv in 2025,” plus “€18 billion in loans guaranteed by frozen Russian assets” for “new weapons,” claiming this proves that “Putin’s strategy to drive Kyiv into financial ruin has completely failed.” (In reality, Ukraine has been bankrupt long before the invasion.)
So even now, as Zelensky raises the white flag and asks his allies to push Putin toward peace — and Trump eagerly awaits it — the so-called EU speaks like Badoglio after the Cassibile armistice: “The war continues,” even though not even Ukrainians want it anymore. Anything to avoid admitting they lost the war through lies and sabotaged the April 2022 Istanbul negotiations, which could have secured much better conditions for Kyiv. These war crimes should, if international law existed, drag Biden, Harris, Stoltenberg, Ursula, Johnson, Macron, Draghi, and other supposed leaders before the International Criminal Court. But they’re too busy saving face to think about saving lives.
Il Fatto Quotidiano, December 19, 2024
