Tribune. Again, on the European territory, a great power leads a war of aggression against a peaceful and democratic neighbor. And this power has nuclear weapons that it does not exclude to use against those who would help the Ukrainian people. This aggression has already caused thousands of deaths.
The magnitude of the invasion shows that Vladimir Putin’s intention is to occupy the country, destroy democracy and install a puppet government in Kiev. What is in question, so Ukraine’s survival as an independent state, a very serious threat to European security.
The concerns expressed by Russia in safety were obviously only a pretext aimed at protecting the Russian regime of a democratic contagion. This explains this aggression is indeed neither the defense of Russian-speaking minorities, nor the potential accession of Ukraine to NATO, nor the imaginary deployment of nuclear weapons at the borders of Russia. The substance of the case lies in the nature of more and more authoritarian of the Putin Vladimir regime, in its deep conviction that the extension of freedom and democracy to its borders would constitute an existential threat to its power. It is for him to whistle the end of the democratic recreation of Ukraine, an act well premeditated.
After listening to President Zelensky to address the European Council, I can not help but think of a precedent that I hard to formulate but which is necessary to me: that of the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1938 by Adolf Hitler.
However, despite the information we had on the preparation of this aggression, we hoped to avoid an open war against Ukraine. We still prefer, indeed, a peace negotiated, the dialogue, even rough, confrontation, reason for violent passion and accommodation, even provisional, with irreversible tearing. And we hoped that a head of state that officially told us and solemnly that he would never invade Ukraine would respect his Word.
Invasion by Hitler
The European Union has built, indeed, on the refusal of war, and we have gradually chased his spectrum of our mind. Certainly, we have already had to face wars and conflicts in Europe. Some of them have provoked terrible suffering, as during the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia. But none had the seriousness of this one, with a surrogated abuser, endowed with nuclear weapons and determined to destroy a nation of which he denies up to the right to existence.
You have 47.63% of this article to read. The rest is reserved for subscribers.