The day before yesterday, the German premier Merz was rightly brutal: “There will be no Putin -zeky meeting, contrary to what Trump announced”. White House, Cancellerie and Western public opinions are obliged to take note of them. Putin will cry only when he has “removed the deep causes of the war”, that is, when he has reaffirmed the boundaries, the role, the power of what was the Soviet Union.
The sweatshirt sported by Lavrov in Alaska was only the synthesis of this program. And the corpses of Kiev’s children are only collateral damage. Merz’s analysis is missing only a dutiful note, perhaps very embarrassing but historically ascertained.
The three Baltic republics were right when-in front of the smiles and hands of Angela Merkel’s hands and the new manager of Gazprom Schroeder with Putin, celebrating the North Stream gas pipeline-they denounced aloud “a gas pipeline that is the new Ribbentrop-Molotov pact”.
Delivering three years of absolute oil and energy hegemony to Europe to Putin, with an accomplice silence on Europe, it meant this: authorizing the dream of a return to the past, to the tsarist-communist madness of an empire that is no longer there, to the purges yesterday of the Kulaki today of Ukrainian civilians. The historical responsibilities of Merkel and Schroeder, CDU and SPD, are very heavy. Their apparent common sense has resolved in a new monk, in a catastrophe with which the entire West must be measured.
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