MIAMI, United States.- Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, gave the sensational news. On Wednesday the 11th he traveled to Sweden and Finland and signed mutual support agreements with both countries. That NATO support includes warfare, in which the British are great experts.
The “all for one and one for all” works again as in the books of The Three Musketeers. Russia is not mentioned, but it is evident that in the memory of all well-informed people there is the news that these two countries wanted to join NATO, but Russia came out with the blunder of considering the request to join the defense organization as an beautiful case.
Moscow could choose, for example, to congratulate itself that “both nations were escaping the temptation to build nuclear weapons,” for which they had the talent and the money. Unfortunately, Vladimir Putin preferred to resort to the threat, not realizing that he could do nothing, and had to settle for depriving Europe of Russian gas, which is like shooting yourself in the foot.
The UK has about 300 nuclear bombs. Enough to totally destroy Moscow, Saint Petersburg and all cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants. Almost all of Britain’s atomic weapons are on the move aboard submarines and long-range aircraft, so it is impossible to destroy them “preemptively.” The same thing happens with the French “force de frappe”. The deterrence force created by Charles de Gaulle has hidden silos and launches from submarines and Dassault Mirage IV planes. It has, like the British, about 300 nuclear warheads. The collaboration of the United States with the United Kingdom and with France and Israel is taken for granted, although it is not directly mentioned.
I don’t think Putin is crazy. “If he buys a circus, the dwarfs will grow”, the Spaniards often say about someone who is going through a bad patch. It was one thing to confront the Georgians or the Chechens in the vast, remote and dark neighborhood of the Caucasus, it was quite another to invade the Ukraine in Central Europe, with lights and stenographers, so that almost all human rights violations have been recorded (and of ladies and girls), and almost every crime committed by an army in which such behavior was encouraged, including theft of grain and farm machinery.
In these days, precisely, the first trial of a Russian soldier accused of “War Crimes” will take place. He will be tried by a Ukrainian court and is accused of murdering civilians in the town of Chupakhivka, east of kyiv. There are 10,000 victims waiting for justice to be done.
Putin’s World by Angela Stent is worth reading. There are all the clues to this gentleman’s background. He no longer thinks of incorporating the other nations into the class struggle -he has understood that Marxism has utterly failed- but he believes that Russia has an exceptional character, due to its enormous size, due to its situation (it is the only Eurasian country, if we except Turkey, which has a part of its capital in Europe) and for its history. However, he really believes that NATO is the enemy he must beat and against which he has unleashed the Ukrainian carnage, as before he put an end to the Chechen and Georgian rebellion. He fears the “offensive” character of a strange league of nations, led by the United States, which exists solely because of its anti-Russian character.
Vladimir Putin must be reminded that only twice, in the seventy years of its existence, has NATO gone on the offensive. First, to prevent the Serbs from continuing to kill Muslims in an “ethnic cleansing” in Bosnia-Herzegovina, because no one was putting order in that asylum. (Thus concluded the artificial construction of Yugoslavia, achieved by the juggling games of Marshal Tito, great puppeteer of that monstrosity). And, second, in the case of Libya, dragged by the French of Jacques Chirac, for the suppression of Muammar Gaddafi in October 2011. In both cases they had the support of the United Arab Emirates, and especially Qatar.
It is very important that Putin – for as long as it lasts – understands that the largest country on the planet (twice the size of Canada, which is the second largest in the world) should not and cannot interrupt NATO membership. That is an expression of sovereignty that Moscow must respect.
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