In a conference given to leaders of the National Central of Workers of Panama (CNTP) and leaders of organizations and political parties, the professor specified that it is the first time since 1945 that two States enter into a war that includes a member of the Council of UN security and nuclear power like Russia.
The most recent events, he said, force us to reflect on the world we are entering, the new era of geopolitics, “it is not an incident or a minor event, whose consequences, already palpable in the economies, are yet to be seen.” ”, he added.
Ramonet commented that in the midst of controversial news it is worth dwelling on the arguments outlined by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and that the West silences, without giving it the importance it deserves.
Russia is a nuclear power and as the ruler himself has announced, he recalled, it has momentary technological advantages in weapons, alluding to the so-called hypersonic missiles, while warning that no other adversary stands in the way or launches an attack because it would be defeated immediately. , clearly alluding to US troops and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Moscow’s warnings on these matters, he added, have been constant and above all the sovereign decision to defend its borders, even since 2013 with greater emphasis after the coup in Ukraine of the so-called Maidan Square Revolution and the installation in the power of Petro Poroshenko (2014-2019), a neoliberal and anti-Russian oligarch who supported the accession of the former Soviet republic to NATO.
After the end of the Cold War, explained Ramonet, and the disappearance of the Warsaw Treaty as a group for the defense of the ex-socialist countries, NATO never dismembered, without us knowing the causes today.
On the contrary, he said, it extended its presence and weapons of all kinds, including nuclear, in nations close to Russia and others from the old continent such as Slovakia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Moldova, Lithuania, Estonia, Ukraine, which was seen by the Kremlin. as a real threat to its territorial integrity.
No one doubts that NATO exists because of Washington’s interest in maintaining control of Europe, as evidenced in the administration of Republican Donald Trump (2017-2021) and now that of Democrat Joe Biden, who is continuing that strategy to get out of a mediocre in managing the economy and the Covid-19 pandemic itself.
Putin is right, remarked the former director of Le Monde Diplomatique, when he demands that he does not want NATO rockets in Ukraine, something he has been demanding for years, but that nobody paid attention to him, even after Washington moved the axis of confrontation to Asia because of the differences with China.
The best war is the one that is won without fighting, reflected the also semiotician and referent of the left, who regretted that the path of arms was reached, after unsuccessful efforts of diplomacy and dialogue for a real and lasting peace.
This conflict is already having consequences for the world’s economies, warned Ramonet, with the price of a barrel of oil rising to about 100 dollars and also of gas. In Panama they announced that as of tomorrow, Friday, the price of gasoline will rise.
The energy situation is also alarming, even for nations of the European Union, whose 40 percent comes from the hydrocarbons it receives from Russia.
In this environment, he predicted that he hopes that the planned sanctions against the Kremlin by the United States will not go beyond being an announcement, because it would affect its main allies such as France, the United Kingdom and especially Germany.
This Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin specified that the special military operation in Donbass is a forced measure, and the Eurasian nation could not act otherwise.
The president stressed that the security risks created around the country were such that it was impossible to respond by other means.
In addition, he expressed his surprise that Western countries did not move “one millimeter” in the negotiations with Russia on security guarantees.
For its part, the Russian Defense Ministry assured that its country’s Armed Forces do not launch attacks on Ukrainian cities, but rather against military infrastructure, air defense facilities, airfields and aviation with high-precision weapons.
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