In the seventies of the last century, an acquaintance of mine challenged the last taboo, claiming that 90% of male teenagers habitually practiced onanism, and that the other 10 were liars. Western elites have a similar relationship with the real causes of Russian invasion to Ukraine: ninety out of one hundred know them and hide them, the other ten mentions.

The former retired diplomats are taking off to the rescue of the historical truth. The Financial Times of February 17 published the letter of Anthony Brenton, former British ambassador to Moscow:

“Your editorial on February 14 on the” dangerous “approach of Trump to peace in Ukraine seems like a mere dialectical quibble. Trump publicly said what all those who have been close to the question have known for some time, but many have chosen to deny. The reckless expansion of NATO, and in particular the efforts to include Ukraine, have fueled the safety fears of Russia and contributed to provoking the war. It follows that any final peace will exclude the adhesion of Ukraine to NATO ».

José Antonio Zorrilla, a former Spanish ambassador to Moscow and Tbilisi, essentially exhibits the same concepts in an interview with Neutrality Studies, the podcast of Pascal Fighting (here), and adds:

“We diplomats are at the service of politics (…) Only when we are free from constraints do we say things as they are”.

This blog has an anthropological interest in those who will sooner or later reposition themselves dialectically compared to new (dis) balances, but does not know how to do it. It doesn’t matter much if they were hypocritical or liars: they knew that expanding NATO to the east was to be stunned, but they glossyly chose to relate to the Aegemone as a sponge with Captain Hook (in the song by Edoardo Bennato):

I am always present at his speeches
And I don’t know what he had in mind
But I don’t ask myself too many questions.
And I don’t care where the power
until it continues to give me a drink,
I don’t betray him and to hell I will follow him.

Dear élites. In the last three years we have endured your mental contortions, but it is no longer time for further psychological games. You develop the right and then, please evaluate if it is not time to rotate the artillery of your brilliant, but bankruptcy artillery by a hundred and eighty artillery.