Perhaps we Europeans should rediscover the value of fear. Fear keeps us alert, conscious, and allows us to make choices useful for survival. Exactly what all the countries of the old continent have lost. The many years of the American umbrella have made us far too lazy and sure of ourselves, incapable of seeing the truth, and even when it appears in front of us we chase it away considering it a kind of far-fetched folklore. This is what happens following the latest statements by Vladimir Putin on the possible use of atomic weapons.
The Russian president admitted, for the fifth time in a few months, that he will be willing to use “every tool in his possession to counter threats to Russia’s security even if the latter derive from the use of conventional weapons”. Warnings follow one another, and are always considered as simple threats. This was also the case for Ukraine. Ten years of threats, warnings, warnings to Europe and the USA which was then followed by the imperialist invasion war.
In Russia words don’t float in the wind like they do here; they are not mere slogans but precise declarations of intent, tragic signs of a tragically serious people.
Karaganov himself, an eminent political scientist over whom the shadow of fanaticism has now fallen, has repeatedly reiterated that if necessary to maintain its survival, Russia will use nuclear weapons. Precisely in Russia and among Russians in Italy there are rumors of dismay; “But aren’t these people afraid? Are they perhaps stupid? Why do they pretend nothing happened?”.
The head of the largest atomic power in the world says, for the fifth time, that the nuclear option can no longer be ruled out. And if the missile were to launch it will certainly not be directed to the United States, where it would probably be intercepted, but to Europe. In the heart of that world by which Russians have felt irremediably betrayed, wounded by and rejected for thirty years. Maybe in Germany, maybe in England. Gloomy simulations of atomic explosions are shown on so-called “propaganda” channels. In the case of the Russians you can be sure: threats sooner or later become facts. Unless someone, or something, defuses the fuse. If not rationality, if not realism, at least fear should push us to try the impossible to avert the catastrophe.
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