Ukraine: for Zelensky, win war of symbols

This December 21, the image was the message. That of allies united with the test of a war imposed on Ukraine by Russia of Vladimir Putin, and who stand shoulder against shoulder while the master of the Kremlin spreads death and destroys in vain to bend a people now turned to their own destiny.

By going, at the 300 e day of the conflict, in Washington for his first visit abroad since February 24 and Moscow’s decision to rape again the sovereignty of his country with This time the slaughter project, Volodymyr Zelensky wanted to thank the world’s leading power. Without his massive support, his army could certainly not have been able to resist the invader, however mediocre as it is in his organization and his command.

By receiving it, Joe Biden wanted to sweep the illusions of the Kremlin. The hour of a weariness of the United States, of a “fatigue” which could push Washington to press its ally to engage in precipitated negotiations by freezing on the ground the balance of power for the benefit of Moscow, n ‘ Not yet came.

At the White House as in front of the elected officials of the Congress, two promises have therefore stopped echoing. “We will fight, thanks to your support, until victory,” assured the Ukrainian president, despite the rigors of winter and adversity. “We will be up to your side in a fight that concerns us all,” replied the United States, with the exception of a handful of elected Republicans and conservative commentators led by their smallness in history En Marche.

obsessive errors

Volodymyr Zelensky was not the first leader of an ally country of the United States engaged in a vital fight to make such a visit. He knew how to find in his own way, made of a gravity which does not prohibit the dash of humor, the accents of an illustrious predecessor, the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who came to the darkest of the Second World War, for to rise to the height of the event.

It is likely that after Washington, the Ukrainian president will be anxious to pay the same tribute to his European allies. They also contribute massively, at the height of their means, in the war effort, and participate just as much in the response that requires the unspeakable war of wearhered by Vladimir Putin against Ukrainian civilians.

These visits will strengthen the front bringing together countries attached to the values ​​of freedom and democracy. They are all the more necessary since the European allies undergo the full force, unlike the United States, the deleterious effects of the war delivered at their borders. With them too, the Kremlin calculations have turned short, the European Union has strengthened instead of stretching, and it has decided to loosen the links that kept it in the dependence of Russia.

A day will come when the word of diplomacy will become audible again. Where to turn the page on this war that nothing justified outside the obsessive mistakes of a leader who leads his country to the unknown will be possible. Everyone ardently wishes that this war ceases as quickly as possible and that it will be put an end to their procession of suffering and desolation. But the best way to achieve it is for the moment to continue to demonstrate, day after day, the same irrefutable determination which has appeared in Washington.