At each stage of his tour of Western parliaments, President Zelensky passionately repeats his demand that Ukraine’s skies be closed. The answer is always essentially the same: “Your call is important to us. Stay alive until our sanctions and arms deliveries eventually get the better of your attacker! »
The ground offensive of the Russian army, despite the magnitude of its means, has not yet achieved its objectives. Russian tanks and artillery, fortunately as clumsy as Canadian immigration agents, still fail to completely strangle the major cities of Ukraine. We are even told that the Ukrainian railway system is still functional. And if, after three weeks of firing, the losses of civilians number in the hundreds (only, so to speak), they will, however, number in the thousands and tens of thousands if hordes of Russian fighters, armed with the experience gained in Syria, invade the Ukrainian skies with impunity and go into high gear shelling mode.
Several observers, like our governments themselves, are predicting a long war, prolonging Ukraine’s misfortune over a long period, which could also become Russia’s misfortune thanks to Afghan-style guerrilla warfare. .
In a formidable speech delivered before the French National Assembly on 1er last March (and which circulates a lot on various networks), the French senator Claude Malhuret, ex-president of Doctors without borders, evoked the possibility of another outcome, coming from the street or from some Brutus who would settle his account with the unleashed president .
At some point, many may understand that they have been led down a dead end. Vladimir Putin may have cut off most sources of information, but Russians can circumvent these bans through their VPNs, and they can even listen to the BBC on shortwave, like in 1939-1945, to hear something other than official propaganda. But if the end comes through Brutus, we will have to take care that this Brutus is not worse than Caesar!