Vienna tries to “rehabilitate” Putin, Berlin niche and Paris is cleared: Italy offside?
The Porta Pia breach is easily identifiable and therefore destined to become a topic of general discussion. The first cracks in a dam are difficult to see with the naked eye and, above all, identifiable as prodromal to a structural failure. Especially when the official narrative is unilaterally based on optimism.
Hence a couple of signals arrived in the day from the war information and diplomacy front to glimpse the first, clear signs of a readjustment of the equilibrium. As silent and hidden as they are fundamental to be grasped. using a football metaphor, pay attention to the movements of the defenders and not just those of the ball. Because the risk of ending up offside, when the emotion of the goal was already anticipated, grows significantly.
To open the dance in an interview with Nbc the Austrian canceller, Karl Nehammer, a veteran of the meeting in Moscow with Vladimir Putin on 11 April last, took care of it. According to the head of the government of Vienna, the Russian president will collaborate in the international inquiry into war crimes committed according to the international community by Russian forces in Ukraine. More, for Nehammer, Putin does not trust the Western world, so this will be the problem in the future.
Now it is not necessary to rely on the good soul of Marshall McLuhan to understand that Vienna has launched a start of a blatant Kremlin rehabilitation campaign, a type of sympathy operation in the midst of the storm that could have a lot to do with Austria’s degree of total dependence on Russian gas. Because until no later than four days ago, Moscow was on the verge of default, energy blackmail a thing of the past and Putin a man increasingly isolated from his circle of power and a victim of his imperial obsessions. Then, the watershed event: the sinking of the cruiser Moskva in the Black Sea Russian strategy and decision to change in Ukraine. Starting with the aerial hammering also on Kiev and a surgical campaign to destroy the supplies of Armicrains: whether they are in loco or in transit from NATO, the so-called legitimate targetsthe first of which were eliminated in the vicinity of Odessa.
From that day on, something seems to have changed. For example, the past Republic has shifted from a belligerent posture in demanding arms shipments to Kiev to the immediate and tacit Russian veto of Soviet-made Czech arms transfers. Then, according to the signal. For the first time, the international media have clearly and neatly filtered out news that threatens to crack the hero profile of the Ukrainian president’s homeland. In the face of the Russian ultimatum to the Mariupol barricaded, apparently among which are foreign mercenaries, it would be that of a top Ukrainian political level that would have said No at the request of Marines and Azov members to surrender in order to save their lives.
Translated, Zelensky would seem ready to sacrifice his men in order to be able to count on a new massacre to be attributed to Moscow and resold to the world, primarily as a reason for the total breakdown of a negotiation that has never actually started. And if the US seems to side with this hypothesis of permanent and low-intensity conflict, some European states are beginning to smell of burning. And, above all, to fear that it comes from their own rear ends on the diplomatic barbecue of relations with Moscow.
so that Emmanuel Macron, supra-aesthetically for next Sunday’s runoff, immediately took the ball to dissociate media Here is the accusation of genocide advanced by Joe Biden towards Vladimir Putin, while Berlin fell into a deathly silence on the subject of Ukraine after the ban on entry to Kiev delivered by Zelensky to President Steinmeier. And not only that, in the EU both Germany and Hungary seem willing to use any weapon or diversion in order to postpone ad libitum the approval of sanctions on Russian gas.
Austria, for its part, seems to be a spokesperson for the Kremlin’s good will in ascertaining possible war crimes and raises the problem of the recovery of confidence that the West must put on its agenda towards the Russian president. Basically, a quasi-official defense, a diplomatic pact Pro bono which implies the non-interruption of Gazprom flows via Poland.
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It’s Italy? In today’s interview with Corriere della SeraMario Draghi spoke of his conversation with Vladimir Putin and of the latter’s adamance in continuing the military campaign but no one has escaped how Italy’s profile is becoming the most belligerent in the EU. Starting from the proud claim of the Prime Minister of the choice to arm Kiev. And, in the light of what has just been said, Rome appears to be at great risk of isolation. The famous offside, then. Not a coincidence, indiscretions are chased from several fronts with respect to a Mario Draghienberg performed by the Jens Stolt NATO summit procedureso much so as to foreshadow an early farewell to Palazzo Chigi.
Even already in the estate. I am not tired but I will not run for electionsDraghi told the director of Courier, in what appeared to many a warning of a government crisis. And here’s the real, big risk. More than real and imminent. This week the inter-ministerial decree for the second shipment of armaments to Ukraine will land in Romeright in the middle of the European repositioning towards Moscow.
And close by return of post with the démarche officer sent by Russian diplomatic channels to many NATO countries – including ours – with respect to unpredictable consequences linked precisely to the continuation of a military support policy of Kiev. Paris, Berlin and Vienna have begun to raise the line of attackers, after having given birth to a silent reshuffle of the teams. Is the Italy striker already over the line? Or is he about to vacate her, dangerously?