Conversation of Paola Sacchi with Maria Giovanna Maglie, journalist, essayist and columnist
“When democracies weaken and autocrats retreat, dictators advance. The blitz in which Putin and his generals trusted did not succeed. But this does not mean that Putin has lost, nor that he has given up on his aims. And because he is counting on the weakness of the West that Putin has decided to attack. I see confusion between just criticisms of politically correct America, of a failed president like Biden, and destructive criticism of the entire West. Going to the negotiating table threatening a no fly zone – I said threatening, not doing it – would have strengthened the necessary pressure on Putin ”.
Talk to Startmag Maria Giovanna Maglie, journalist, essayist, columnist, former Rai international correspondent. He underlines: “The transformation of NATO from a defensive Alliance into a Security Alliance is an old issue that has never been addressed”. On our energy dependence: “Angela Merkel’s Germany bears the supreme responsibility. A wicked green policy “. As for the Italian controversy: “I find the attack on Matteo Salvini by a Pd that has never done a Bad Godesberg grotesque. Meanwhile, Salvini went to the border to see what to do for the refugees. The other trembling at their home “.Notwithstanding the fact that our compass can only be Freedom, the West, something for which she in defense of Ukraine fiercely clashes with various “Putinians” on social media, she realistically believes, as she said in recent days in TV, that Putin has already won this war
or that he has gone so far that he has lost it in the long run
The blitz in which Putin and his generals trusted was certainly not successful. This delay can be attributed to the extraordinary resistance of the Ukrainians who, among other things, have been armed with dignity by the Western allies; or to the fact that someone in Moscow counted in the uprising of the Ukrainian army and in the poor will of the citizens. This did not happen and now the war has become a long and traditional war, with great sacrifice of civilians, with a massive exodus of refugees pouring into Europe by the millions, with conspicuous economic damage for all. But this does not mean that Putin has lost or that he intends to give up his aims that go far beyond the Crimea and the Donbass he already had. The idea of Russian and then Soviet imperialism is very much alive in him and in his group of Loyalists who are even more radical than Putin. It is no coincidence that Poland is in alarm and is preparing. We should be too, instead I see a cult of the foolish strong man and a great confusion between the right criticisms of Me Too America, of the politically correct, of a bankrupt president like Biden, and the destructive criticism of the entire West, which then and self-destructive drive. And precisely because he is counting on this weakness that Putin has decided to attack. When democracies weaken and retreat, autocrats and dictators advance. of the politically correct, to a bankrupt president like Biden, and the destructive criticism of the entire West, which is then a self-destructive drive. And precisely because he is counting on this weakness that Putin has decided to attack. When democracies weaken and retreat, autocrats and dictators advance. of the politically correct, to a bankrupt president like Biden, and the destructive criticism of the entire West, which is then a self-destructive drive. And precisely because he is counting on this weakness that Putin has decided to attack. When democracies weaken and retreat, autocrats and dictators advance.The sanctions, the sending of weapons. How do you judge the response of the US EU
And, in any case, what to do to stop the president of the Russian Federation
The sanctions are certainly among the heaviest that could be chosen, they hit the Russian economy to the heart. Except that that is a country accustomed to being poor, it must not be judged by the life in the center of Moscow and St. Petersburg. It is a poor and undemocratic country. So much so that almost all conscripted soldiers had never been told where and what they would go to. I have some doubts about weapons not because it does not feel right for the Ukrainians to ask for them but because if the forces on the ground are unequal and if they are handed over to untrained civilians and even to prisoners released from jail, something is wrong with method and substance. I believe instead that going to the negotiating table threatening a no fly zone over Ukraine, I said threatening I didn’t say doing it, instead of raising high ground on the danger of World War III and excluding it a priori, as did for example the Italian foreign minister, he would have strengthened the pressure that must be exerted on Putin. But all the weakness of European foreign policy is exemplified here. Russia is also afraid of a nuclear war, not only the rest of the world. If you get scared before starting to threaten, you have already lost or otherwise invite the attacker to continue.In the Chamber, Valentino Valentini, Silvio Berlusconi’s diplomatic assistant in Pratica di Mare (seat of the historic Bush-Putin agreement), adhering, like everyone, to the Ukraine decree, however, underlined “certain ambiguities” he had in the past on the line of entry into NATO from part of Ukraine (which now Ukrainian President Zelensky has said he does not want) which risked being used as a “pretext” by Putin. Errors in the past, although they certainly do not justify the aggression
Any nation has the right to want to join an alliance like the Atlantic one. If there is one thing that can be attributed to NATO, it is that of not having transformed itself from a defensive alliance into a security alliance. An old issue that has never been addressed. There are other nations that border Russia and are in NATO and are in the European Union. The point is that as the West weakened, and with the change of presidency between Trump and Biden, the hasty flight from Afghanistan, a fool in front of the whole world, Putin felt he could assert reasons of belonging that they are not such and they are not legitimate.Meanwhile, the Democratic Party now presents itself as the champion of the West in the face of a sort of “bad company”, led by Matteo Salvini, who voted with all of the Ukrainian resolution. Whatever he says or does is now like a kind of man hunt. As if this persistence explains it, to the point that Draghi himself defended the leader of the League
The Democratic Party is an acrobatic champion of changes without self-criticism starting with all the names it has changed since it was called the Italian Communist Party and was financed by the Soviet Union. Never really reckoned with the past never done a Bad Godesberg. Whether they are with this disastrous European Union administration or with the Biden administration, it seems completely normal to me. As for Putin, we are desperately looking for a nation or leader who has not had anything to do with Russia even after Crimea in 2014. We have foolishly increased our energy dependence, Angela Merkel’s Germany bears supreme responsibility. A wicked green policy bears the main responsibility. Taking it out on Matteo Salvini is, more than ridiculous, grotesque. Meanwhile, the leader of the League went to the border to see what to do for the refugees. The others seem to me to be staying at home in fear of the third world war. Zero Leadership.
