The dumb and the deaf

Nothing like this had ever been seen in the history of diplomacy.

A coldness that shivers.

The air that is cut.

Statements like verbal flashes, dry and accurate.

The wicked and icy Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, hits the nail on the head with the metaphor of him.

More than he himself could think.

This impossible dialogue is not between the deaf, but between a mute and a deaf, as he pointed out at the end of his meeting this past week with the British Foreign Minister, Liz Truss.

Everyone recognizes the mute.

There is no ambiguity in his gestures, although his silence pretends to deny them.

We know what his hand on the gas tap means even though his words say that the supply is guaranteed.

He accompanies his sardonic smile with the taps of the baton on the palm of his hand.

It seems that he sits down to negotiate, but with his gun on the table.

He doesn't say anything but everything is understood.

There is no need to play around with jokes or expect much from the words of someone who bases everything on the reason of force.

In France the armed forces are called

(the great mute).

Now Putin's Russia displays and exhibits the silence of his arguments: soldiers, armor, missiles, planes, frigates, on the borders and in the surrounding seas of Ukraine.

In case someone had forgotten, it exhibits an army prepared to return to Europe's worst past, a large-scale invasion, the third world war if necessary, and why not the use of atomic weapons.

He had no reluctance to mention it, threatening and without cutting himself off, before Emmanuel Macron, the French president and the only European president who also has it, nor to show that no one surpasses him in the number of nuclear warheads prepared for the apocalypse.

It started with an ultimatum, two months ago.

He demanded a return to 1997, to the

prior to NATO enlargement, and a written commitment that Ukraine would never join the Alliance and there would be no new enlargements.

Since then, he has been tightening the military noose around Ukraine.

The responses of Europeans and Americans on disarmament, nuclear proliferation, transparency or risk reduction are not worth it.

She wants to win all at once and by the threat of force everything that the Kremlin lost in the last 30 years on its own merits.

The deaf ignores.

He will only attend to him when the mute begins to holster his weapons and prepares for a dialogue without mute or deaf.

It is advisable not to be cowed or hesitate, not to argue or fight with your friends, to remain deaf to threats and also turn a deaf ear to the siren songs of the defeatists, those who consider any battle lost before fighting it, and of the appeasers, always ready to give clothes to the mafiosi, without realizing that their concession will be only the first.

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