I start from the current situation of the conflict to make a more general reflection. The attempt of the Ukrainian army to penetrate Russian territory in the region of Kursk has failed. According to official sources, the Ukrainians have lost 16,400 men and 127 tanks since the beginning of the operation. The invasion has turned out to be what it was: a desperate, propagandistic, but strategically self-destructive move. The difficulties on the various fronts are becoming clear and can only be partly delayed with increasingly direct interventions by NATO in the conflict. Such as, for example, the recent one of the drones that struck a military fuel depot on Russian territory.
In this context, the latest decisions of theEuropean Union mark something new: from now on the EU will be considered a hostile force to Russia. And this means that Russia will never accept not only Ukraine’s entry into NATO, but now even into the European Union, which is considered a hostile force.
The war, meanwhile, has taken on a new character for the Russian people. It is no longer a question of defending the Russian population in Donbass, this is an existential war that it concerns the survival of Russia as a civilization. There will be no peace until Russia’s victory is recognized and Ukraine surrenders. Ukraine will be reduced to its borders, disarmed, outside of NATO and the EU. It is only a matter of time.
The real losers of this war, however, we will be Europeansor rather we have been defeated by our governments that lead the EU and that have not been able to play that role of diplomatic mediation that they could at least try to exercise. Europe remains what it has been since the end of the Second World War, that is to say an American colony. The idea of building an independent European political space based on a monetary union could only fail and it has failed. This war has shown that the Union has no soul of its own.
Everything is changing in the world: Russia with Putin has become a power again, China has become an imperial powerother powers, first and foremost India and Iran, are emerging in an increasingly multipolar world. The geopolitical balances of the world are changing or perhaps, more realistically, we are moving towards a new world disorder full of unknowns. One thing is certain: the so-called American-led “globalization” is over, and so is Kantian “perpetual peace.” There has not been an “end of history,” and, indeed, history continues as it always has with wars and conflicts. It is the “immense slaughterhouse” he spoke of George Hegel.
The American empire has sought to build around itself a great enlarged West. Instead, by a sort of irony that is not at all uncommon in history, we are finally faced with an East enlarged to include Russia and ready to extend its influence to Africa. The new conflict in the Middle East also marks a further step in the process of de-Westernization of the world. Only Europe seems not to notice all these epochal changes and the Atlantic decline.
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