“If Putin were to attack a NATO country, there would be no need for European defense but it would snap Article 5 of the Atlantic Pact: if Putin attacks a NATO country, the latter is obliged to respond. I still have to understand why Putin would attack a country in the Atlantic Alliance and then find himself against the whole of NATO, but he could also be crazy enough to do so. But in any case what happens is already foreseen.” So a Half past eight (La7) the director of Everyday occurrenceMarco Travaglioreplies to the former Prime Minister Mario Monti on a possible advance of Russia beyond Ukraine and the consequent need for a common European defense.
Travaglio reiterates his position on the war in Ukraine: “We drugged the Ukrainians by convincing them that they would beat Russia with our weapons and their soldiers, few and disorganized. We spent more than two years saying that victory would be to defeat Russia, to send it into default. Replacing Putin with a sincere democrat, and then on top of that recovering the 4 regions annexed in 2022 and Crimea annexed in 2014. These are the borders that the EU still has a month ago with von der Leyen resolution voted by the right, by the Democratic Party and by the center has sanctioned it.”
And he explains: “Since unfortunately things don’t go as we have been told for over 2 years, the only alternative to doing all those beautiful thingsto which we could also add marry Monica Bellucci and some other dreams we might have had, it’s sbring about the Third World War. Or you have to deal with whoever is there and, since you can’t choose the enemy, you have to deal with Putin. Now – he continues – even the Ukrainians say so. The problem now is to see if Putin wants to negotiate with them, because they lost the opportunity for negotiations 10 days after the Russian invasion, when there were the conditions for a ceasefire and Boris Johnson went to threaten Zelensky why he didn’t sign the agreement that would have solved the problem 500 thousand deaths ago“.
Travaglio concludes: “Whoever told lies at this moment should take note of the situation and tell us exactly what the alternative is: send not French and Italian troops, but half a million soldiers, because they are the ones the Ukrainians need. Or we have to negotiate. There is no third solution.”
