Tribune. The invasion of Ukraine by Russia brings Europe into a danger zone that it had not known for decades. The revisionism of Vladimir Putin, bringing it to the quasi-negation of the right of existence to Ukraine, led it, on Monday, February 21, to recognize the independence of the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Louhansk, then, Thursday 24, to launch a massive invasion.
Adept for the resolution of disputes by violence, Vladimir Putin had put in place, the previous weeks, all the ingredients of a political, military and economic coercive plan, playing provocation and threat, while Practicing duplicity during meetings with its Western counterparts. Now, it is the triggering of a pure and simple war with a former Soviet Republic that wanted to live as a democracy.
In France, the benevolence of the extremes
Viscently hostile to democracy, violating international law, attacking our own security interests, Putin, however, benefits from the benevolence of our extremes which, left and right, call into question our alliances, share the same Anti-American obsession or are fascinated by autocrats or even plead – despite the war triggered against Ukraine – in favor of an alliance with him. Other circles of our political class cultivate, they, an ambiguity disturbing.
The ministry of the armies was very clear on those who threaten our interests by publishing his “ Strategic update ” in January 2021. Russian misinformation campaigns, components of hybrid strategies to challenge the international order, and the inclusion of the treaties of control Armaments are pointed without detour. By its intimidation practices and its destabilizing military capacities, Russia is described as a power that must be the subject of our greatest vigilance. The most recent news confirms the magnitude of the threat.
Many act passages accredited this analysis: Coup de force against Georgia in 2008 (a country now amputated 25% of its territory!), Annexation of a part of Ukraine in 2014, actions violent clandestines on the soil of European countries in Vrbetice, the Czech Republic (2014), or in Salisbury, England [where the former Russian Russian Skripal agent and his daughter Iulia had been poisoned at the Novitchok], in 2018, Cyberattacks and Electoral manipulations in the United States (2016), or violation of the treaty on intermediate nuclear forces. In short, an international gangster behavior, which now strikes the Ukrainian people.
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