The master of the Kremlin can barely control his contempt for those woke who light candles, sing hymns and display yellow-blue flags.
“Sure, we won’t do anything.” This was the admission of Claude Cheysson, François Mitterrand’s foreign minister, after the coup in Poland in December 1981. During the Cold War, everyone knew that America and the free countries could not solve every crisis. When the Soviet Union invaded Hungary in 1956 and again when the Soviets used Warsaw Pact forces against Czechoslovakia in 1968, Western leaders recognized that there was little to be done. This did not mean showing moral indifference to the sufferings of the Czechs, Slovaks and Hungarians, who today are among the truest and strongest Europeans in their own identity. Today it is the same behind the big words and the high-sounding slogans of the Western camp, more cowardly than ever, after Putin’s terrible war on Ukraine.
Outraged Western democracies are paper tigers. They will be satisfied with the usual protests and economic sanctions, for which the middle class and small and medium-sized enterprises will pay the entire price.. If the threat is indeed the one described by the European Union and the United States, military mobilization had to be necessary. But, as the French historian Jean-Francois Colosimo says in Le Figaro, “Westerners have no desire to sacrifice the life of a single soldier to defend the integrity of Ukraine”.
