We didn't want to believe it.
Despite all the signs - these Russian troops massed at the borders, these increasingly precise American warnings, these cries for help from the Ukrainian authorities - we did not want to bring ourselves to the idea that Putin would go all the way his crazy logic.
He wouldn't dare!
He would not have the cynicism to tear up all the treaties, to trample on international principles.
In the middle of the 21st century, he would not take the risk of turning Europe into a battlefield again.
He dared.
He
“chosen war”
(Emmanuel Macron).
Under cover of hackneyed pretexts (the defense of oppressed national minorities - since the Sudetenland, the argument has been used a lot) or properly delusional reasoning (the imperative of
"denazification"
!), Russian power is unleashed on the fragile Ukraine whose the crime is to look too openly at the West and its democratic principles.
Like Hungary in 1956, like Czechoslovakia in 1968, the people...
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