I read the statements of not without dismay Volodymyr Zelensky from the timely excellent report by Camilla Conti on The Truth last Saturday. “We appreciate all those who help us to advance the peace formula.” “We are preparing a conference for next year focused on reconstruction, but there will be no real reconstruction without security, and Europe and NATO are important components because investors must believe and trust Ukraine before coming to invest capital there: we must have security to protect our capital.” “We want Ukrainians who are working in other countries today to return home.” “We would like to connect to the European energy grid, including for nuclear energy, in order to reduce the price of energy in Europe.” And, regarding fears that Kiev could directly attack the Kremlin, Zelensky says: “it’s a shame it can’t be done”then specifying that he was “joking”.
The Ukrainian president evokes reconstruction, not very prudently and not a little hastily, for which he has already scheduled a conference for next year, but he has no peace in his pocket. Even worse: he very correctly recalls that no reconstruction can begin if there is no security, but immediately after he insists on reiterating that he trusts in NATO for this security. Words that sound more like a provocationgiven that the other side, with which Zelensky says he wants to reach peace, has repeatedly expressed concerns about its own security in this regard. And, right or wrong, the crux of the “solemn” promise of neutrality of 1990 remains. Some of my readers have pointed out to me that I am quoting this like a broken record, and someone else more perceptive than me has objected that many things have happened between 1990 and today. As always, I may be wrong, but I suspect that when the interested parties sit down at the so-called peace table – a table that, from the information we are provided, does not yet seem to have been forged – at that moment, I was saying, one of the parties will ask as the first question: “what happened to that solemn promise?”. Perhaps the other side should prepare and produce a response instead of turning a deaf ear.
“We need to have security to protect our capital.” These are disconcerting words in a world so attentive to political correctness. No word for his own tortured people. Which, in this case, is not about political correctness, but about a sense of justice and heart. Probably dried up over the course of these two years or more: humanly understandable, but if there is one virtue that a head of state cannot fail to have, that is fortitude. Even if the impression, here, is that all four are missing, because I don’t even see prudence, justice, or temperance.
And no word for the Ukrainian soldiers and – yes, why not? – for the Russian soldiers. He wants all the Ukrainians who work in other countries at home. But Ukrainians are not going anywhere because they know what their fate will be: the front, to die. In his statements, Zelensky was worried about the cost of energy in Europe and we are speechless: a concern, his, that is completely out of place, given that Ursula von der Leyen does not have it either. And, as for the virtue of temperance, I did not mention it by chance. Usually we are witty people, we avoid political correctness, and we laugh at jokes about the carabinieri, the Swiss, Poles, blacks, Muslims, Jews and even those about ourselves. But jokes also need to be told and, above all, you need to know when not to tell them. And the last “joking” words quoted at the beginning mean only one thing to me: Volodymyr Zelensky is not the right man to sit at any peace table. The Ukrainian people could perhaps reflect on whether it is not the case to find a more suitable one.
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