It is not just about the invasion of Ukraine now.
The war wanted by Vladimir Putin has undergone a rapid and disturbing mutation that makes the near and distant future full of fears and anguish.
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To the bloody and ferocious conflict on the ground, the global economic warfare and that of disinformation and propaganda has been added an opposition between Russia and the West that not only ominously recalls the times of the Cold War but that anticipates and introduces what will be a long period of harsh and harsh relations between the EU and the US on the one hand and Moscow on the other.
Nothing can be the same, regardless of how and when the war will end.
Putin's war is not only violent and tragic on the ground - with the killing of civilians, deportations, torture, rape and millions of refugees on the run - it is also a definite attack on the values and principles of democracy.
The West has stopped believing in the possibility of a negotiation worthy of the name - and on the other hand Moscow has candidly admitted that it does not think about it at this stage - and has decided to increase its political and military aid to Kiev.
Today's meeting in Ramstein plastically represents a decisive step change in what Western military support for Ukraine will be and it is no coincidence that just today Germany announced its intention to give heavy weapons, including tanks, to Kiev.
The United States and Europe send a clear signal to Moscow which is represented by the words of Lloyd Austin, US Defense Secretary, during the meeting at the US military base in Germany: 'Today we are gathered here to help Ukraine win the battle against the Russia'.
On the Russian side, yesterday, Foreign Minister Serghei Lavrov explained that the danger of a Third World War is real because NATO is waging, according to Moscow, 'a proxy war' in Ukraine.
Moscow, in essence, believes that NATO by giving arms to Ukraine has, in fact, already entered the war.
Putin's war therefore quickly embarked on a path in which diplomacy no longer has room even if the calls for dialogue continue generously, starting with that of the UN Secretary General Guterres who is in Moscow today and will be in Kiev on Thursday.
But the diplomatic wall against wall seems unshakable at the moment.
Kiev does not want to give up on its sovereignty and does not trust Moscow, Putin will perhaps be able to agree to a negotiating table when he has achieved some minimum objectives on the ground that only he knows, the West looks horrified at what is happening on the ground and, like Kiev , no longer believes in the words of the Kremlin.
The attacks and explosions of recent hours - without a known responsible - in Transnistria then raise fears of a widening of the conflict, which however continues to be extremely harsh throughout the eastern and southern part of Ukraine.
Before arriving at a ceasefire we will most likely witness a period of war that unfortunately will not be short and when the parties finally sit down at the diplomatic table, a new era of relations between the West and Russia will begin, and it will be the era of the new contraposition.
Also because the West cannot and does not want to forget that in this war everything is clear: there is an aggressor, Russia, who has violated the territorial integrity and sovereignty of a democratic country and there is an attacker, the 'Ukraine, which wants to defend its territory and its freedom.