In the conflict between Russia And UkrainetheItaly and most of theWest They are considered “non -belligerent”, but the reality is different: we have sent weapons, financed the Ukrainian military apparatus, provided logistical, technological and information support. This is not neutrality or diplomacy, It is participation in the conflict.
In our criminal law, those who commit a crime and those who contribute to committing it respond in the same way. It does not matter who pressed the trigger: those who have consciously helped, are considered competitor in the crime.
In the same way, those who provide means to make war cannot declare themselves neutral: they have contributed to the action and therefore share their responsibility, at least on a moral and political level.
Doing so, we have betrayed, if not the letter, certainly the spirit of article 11 of the Constitution According to which Italy repudiates the war “as a means of resolution of international disputes”. Not even the born treaty justifies our conduct because article 5 provides for collective military intervention only in the event of armed aggression against a Member State and Ukraine is not. The only constitutionally allowed intervention to our country is that aimed at dealing with peace, not to feed, albeit by prosecutor, the reinforced clash.
Here lies the most serious contradiction, because in the name of a humanitarian solidarity – sacrosanct towards the Ukrainian people, less towards their government, which could have negotiated peace over and, probably also, even avoid the invasion (if we do not start the narrative since 2022) – we have chosen to intervene with the supply of armamentswhile Without “Boots on the Ground”.
We participated in half service, but this was enough to move the balance of the conflict: not to conclude it, but to stretch it. The war that could have ended already in 2022, with a compromise perhaps imperfect, thus became a quagmire of blood and destruction. The result? More dead, more devastation and a worst geopolitical situation than what could have been achieved immediately looking for the way of mediation That now, a lot of destruction later, finally appears to everyone to be the only realistic option.
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