In Ukraine, Russia is blocked by its poor military and political management

Despite the great price, unfortunately paid in human lives, which represents the most tragic aspect of the conflict, the Russian advance is proceeding slowly and, in some cases, is even forced to suffer defeats that force departments of the Kremlin to retreat to the ground. This provokes a tactic that involves Ukrainian civilians as functional objectives to weaken the resistance of Kiev, which, on the military level only, that is, without the theoretical involvement of civilians, would be able to contain the Russian effort, although in evident numerical and means inferiority to disposition. This modality has been successfully tested in Syria, where civilian targets, such as hospitals and schools, were deliberately hit to pull back the forces opposed to Assad, whatever their nature, be it democratic forces or the Islamic State; however the scheme, although it has similarities, in Ukraine presents profound differences: Ukraine is a sovereign state with its own army, cohesive with its population and not divided as in Syria and enjoys the unconditional political support of the West, which despite continuing not to intervene, it continuously supplies the armed forces of Kiev with weapons and logistical support. The conjectures about Putin’s convictions of a short war are probably true, and the evidence is that the heavy weapons deployed are outdated, the logistical support insufficient, precisely because it was not designed, and the troops, often made up of conscripts, are insufficient. trained and even less psychologically prepared to face a war of such intensity. Some analysts also believe that the employment of Syrian “volunteers” will not be decisive and there are considerable doubts about the contribution of the Chechens. In this context, the choice of indiscriminate bombing appears for Putin to be the only way to avoid being defeated by the conflict and with the internal image irremediably ruined. For this reason, President Zelensky’s request for the no-fly zone appears more than legitimate, but Western countries do not yet consider the time to intervene. There is a real danger of the use of chemical weapons by the Kremlin, on the winning experience carried out in Syria, which would constitute the renewal of a very dangerous precedent, which constituted Obama’s greatest political failure and which, according to many observers, it was the beginning of the current American political weakness in the world theater. The option of the use of chemical weapons could also constitute the consideration by Moscow of a possible use of the use of nuclear weapons, which has already been threatened since the beginning of the conflict. The danger of an escalation is concrete: Russia is in evident difficulty in its “military operation”, is on the verge of financial failure and is politically isolated on the diplomatic scene, especially after the increasingly cautious Chinese attitude on the conflict, caused by the threats of losing access to its most profitable trading markets: the US and Europe. These considerations, if combined with the news, that Russia in the current logistical difficulties, seems to face a further shortage of availability of supplies, both due to increasingly evident practical difficulties, and due to a not infinite arsenal and also an internal situation at the top of the Kremlin, where the major collaborators closest to the president, have been the object of removal from their offices, precisely because of the mismanagement of the war, the possibilities for diplomatic action seem to increase. For Russia, it is estimated that the next ten days will be crucial: if Moscow manages to win the conflict it will have achieved its goal, vice versa for Putin there may be no way out and therefore the Russian president may prefer an honorable exit through an agreement. diplomatic. This eventual agreement, however, passes from a truce that stops the use of weapons and allows safe humanitarian corridors; this eventuality, desirable, is, however, contrary to the current combat mode of the Russian military, which uses civilians as a target to achieve success. At the moment the situation seems to have no way out, but international pressure and some Ukrainian concessions could take away any justification from Russia and allow Moscow an honorable way out, honorable at the moment, because Putin’s reputation is hopelessly ruined. , also from the investigation that the International Court of Justice intends to initiate and which appears with an already written conclusion.