Putin favored by the inconsistency of the West

In the end, the worst omens occurred: Putin maintained his conduct, based on lies and lies and militarily attacked the Ukrainian country, relying on a Western reaction, which to define timid is to use an expression of caution. All the threats of retaliation have turned out to be very little in the face of the determination of the Kremlin, which has raised the level of threats even more against Western democracies. The condemnations of Western leaders were words of circumstance and reassured Russia with the reassurance that no Western soldier will operate on Ukrainian soil, effectively abandoning Kiev to his fate. This is the logical conclusion of the American commitment on the European front, already reduced since Obama, a legitimate choice, but one that damages the main allies of the United States, perhaps in the short but certainly in the medium term and undermines the American leadership itself, not only political but also economic. Russia has acted in this way because it does not want the Atlantic Alliance on its borders, but by conquering Ukraine the borders move as far as Poland and the Baltic countries, where the Western military presence is now rooted. Will the Kremlin tolerate this presence or will it not tolerate it, as Putin has made it clear several times? Physically defending Ukraine with a preventive presence of the Atlantic Alliance, after having welcomed it within it, could have been a deterrent action, which could have allowed negotiations capable of finding a convergence, even if probably based on a sort of balance of the terror. On the contrary, we wanted to choose the path of caution, which bordered on the timidity and protection of the commercial interests of Europe, which never wanted to engage in an active defense of itself. The United States, after the enormous mistake of Afghanistan, is repeating the mistake of leaving the field to more aggressive and determined opponents, choosing a disengagement whose negative effects will be seen entirely in the long term. Biden erases all the positive impressions that accompanied him to his election and repeats, albeit in a more discreet manner, all the failures in foreign policy of his predecessor and will go down in history as one of the worst American presidents, just like Trump. This trend comes from afar and began with Obama, but such a low point, consisting of the sum of the Afghan case with the Ukrainian one, had never been touched by the first world superpower. American behavior has left Europe unprepared and this should not have happened, still without a foreign policy and a common defense, divided internally by states not consonant with having been included within the Union and divided by conflicting commercial interests among its members; among other things, one of Putin’s collateral objectives pursued with the Ukrainian war is precisely that of increasing European divisions and contributing to the immediate creation of new problems among member states, the first of which will be fueled by the growing flow of refugees from ‘Ukraine. Great Britain, if possible, has behaved even worse, the British premier seemed to want to proceed with extremely heavy sanctions against Russia, but then he decided on a series of measures that do not affect the oligarchs present on his territory because they carry huge liquidity in the British economy. Now Putin has achieved a victory above all political, showing the inconsistency of the West, which could authorize him towards higher goals than Ukraine and not for nothing the fear in the Baltic republics and in Poland has risen a lot: the elaborate sanctions affect only 70% of the Russian economy and not its military power and threats against possible interventions on the side of Kiev, it seems that they have had the desired effects by the Kremlin and have highlighted how the problem is certainly first of all geopolitical but immediately thereafter it invests democratic values, the sovereignty of states, the self-determination of peoples and respect for international law, the minimum basis for coexistence between nations. The commitment to these values ​​must be direct and their defense must concern all the states that are based on them, in order not to incur the loss of these prerogatives themselves. The opposite would mean returning to dictatorship and the denial of democracy, as is happening in Ukraine.