In the absence of direct sources, one has to limit oneself to reading from third parties what comes to us from the almost pre-war climate of tension that now marks relations between Ukraine and Russia. And what they tell us is that things look ugly, especially because of the steps of Putin’s Russia, that autocracy so prone to spreading wildly through those lands that do not belong to it. They tell us that he has deployed thousands of soldiers on the border with Ukraine and that the invasion of the neighboring country is imminent.
The man is angry about the Ukrainian claim to join NATO. Until then, in the eyes of a Westerner, everything seems to fit. There is a very bad bad, which seems obvious, and a very good good. But for some time now I have to confess certain doubts about the role that each one plays.
Even making it clear that nothing that comes from Putin or from his imperialist and totalitarian pretensions deserves the slightest credence, I also fail to understand what the United States is playing at, installed for weeks in a dialectical spiral with which it does nothing but fan that the Wolf. There isn’t a day that I don’t move a piece. That if he tells his compatriots to leave the country, that if they transfer the ambassador 500 kilometers further here… One no longer knows what to believe. After all, we were told years ago that there were bombs of mass destruction in Iraq and they never turned up.
That is why I ask myself: What if in the end we are just facing pure theater, facing the simple game of two blocks that are measuring their beards? Or perhaps, before the old trick of many leaders of looking for an enemy abroad to earn the little credit they have left at home? If not, hopefully the blood will not reach the river.
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