A comedian friend angry at the horrors in Ukraine told me this week: “The airspace of Ukraine has been kidnapped by Russia, and we are doing nothing. »
Posted yesterday at 11:00 a.m.
I added: “The Black Sea has become the Russian Sea, forbidden to the Ukrainians, who have always had an open maritime border there, because we do not have the courage to intervene to prevent a rogue head of state to take control of this international navigation space. »
And this is happening because we are afraid of provoking a direct confrontation with Moscow, which could lead, it is said, to nuclear war.
Until when, and how, will this rhetoric of fear give these thugs the freedom to do what they want?
After Putin, who will it be?
We know full well, moreover, that China, Moscow’s main ally, would never allow its friend of circumstances to use atomic weapons against anyone.
China, already tested by the ignorance in which Putin kept it about its real intentions, sees Europe, its main trading partner, bogged down in war.
This China which needs a stable world at all costs to realize its dream of becoming the first power on the planet.
We have been fooled by this image of solidarity from Ukraine’s allies since the beginning of the war. This is what Volodymyr Zelensky essentially said before the UN Security Council this week, where he denounced the failure of this organization to carry out its primary mission, that of ensuring peace in the world.
Sanctions by Ukraine’s allies are a failure. The Russian economy is now more prosperous than last year. The rouble, the national currency of Russia, has regained strength. The war will last because Putin and the Russians do not suffer enough from the so-called international sanctions.
Russia has the wherewithal to continue the war, and we stand aside promising that in 10, maybe even 15 years, when he leaves the presidency of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin will be judged for his actions.
Bullshit that justifies our inaction. Bullshit, what are our public protests. In fact, by our inaction or the inadequacy of our involvement, we allow Putin, day after day, to further destroy this neighboring country which has taunted him by seeking to live in freedom.
It is time for things to change, otherwise our own future – that of our children, especially – will be compromised.
We must get involved in the war against this rogue president.
Review The Economist said in an editorial, in its last issue: “Ukraine has won the first phase [de la guerre] by its mere survival. Now it must move forward, and Mr. Zelensky needs more Western aid. »
The magazine recommends that it be provided with fighter planes and tanks.
I go further: we must help Ukraine regain control of its airspace, otherwise Putin will continue to destroy and terrorize from a distance, failing to win on the ground.
The countries of freedom and democracy must give Ukraine back its access to the Black Sea, an international territory, which it needs to trade with the world and obtain supplies.
The Russian army, already severely handicapped, will not resist a military offensive to defend the territory and the freedom of Ukraine. Putin will agree to negotiate quickly.
The nuclear threat hangs over Russia and Putin in the first place, and the rogue dictator knows it better than anyone.
Our politicians know it too, but they dare not say it, especially those, like Presidents Macron and Biden, and our own Prime Minister of Canada, who are up for election or in delicate political positions.
If we do not confront Putin with real measures, what is likely to happen is the catastrophe in Ukraine, the world food crisis which will cause famines and revolts on all continents, but above all, the approval that we are going to give the reign of thugs, “bullies” of the international schoolyard, who will know that arbitrariness goes unpunished.
Above all, it will be, as President Zelensky rightly underlined this week before the Security Council, the signal that the system of international governance that was set up after the horrors of the Second World War no longer works.
In its most recent report on global warming, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) invites us to consider one last time the fact that if we do not invest what is needed now to reduce our carbon emissions, the money spent later to finance the consequences will be 100 times greater.
The same goes for the carelessness we show in front of thugs like Putin.
The consequences will be endless.
What are we afraid of?