I was flabbergasted by the opinion letter signed Samir Saul and Michel Seymour, published on October 26 in the pages of the To have tolike every time I have had the opportunity to read letters placing all the responsibility for the war in Ukraine on the back of NATO or the United States.
The authors seem to reduce the Russian-Ukrainian conflict to a simple question of economic hegemony of our American neighbors. It seems a bit short to me. I absolutely do not deny that the United States has, since the end of the Second World War, and even before, done everything to subject other countries to their commercial needs, but their analysis seems to me to be based on a primary anti-Americanism.
Vladimir Putin’s Russia has not taken, it seems to me, a much healthier economic path than that advocated by the United States, delivering most of the country’s wealth to a clique of power-hungry oligarchs .
The present conflict seems to me above all to rest on a question of national sovereignty and outrageous imperialism. After all, it was not the United States that subjected Ukraine to a communist regime guilty of the death of millions of people under the Stalinist regime, in addition to the fierce repression of freedom of expression and opinion, and this, for almost 70 years.
In fact, it is the countries bordering Russia that are themselves inclined to spontaneously ask for NATO membership in order to escape the repeated imperialist inclinations on the part of their cumbersome neighbour. I believe that the Ukrainians know very well who their real enemy is.
I am not saying that the United States is white as snow, but all things considered, I much prefer the neighborhood of our thundering American cowboys to that of the Russian plutocrats who cannot imagine that the neighboring peoples can have a free and fully assumed.
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