Russia, on the gallows of the West

By: Luis Gonzales Posada - 18/06/2024

More than one hundred representatives of governments and international organizations will meet on June 15 and 16 in Switzerland to discuss a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine.

The conflict began in 2014, when the Soviets illegally annexed Crimea. In 2022 they supported the formation of the so-called “Independent Republics of Logansk and Donesk” in the north and, later, their army raided Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in the south, causing eight million people to take refuge in Europe.

It is a bloody and highly destructive conflict. According to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, the Russians have lost 350 thousand soldiers. For his part, Zelensky acknowledges the death of 31,000 troops, including five Peruvian combatants, although Moscow maintains that this number is five times higher.

For more than two years we have seen Dantesque, abominable scenes that relive bloody episodes of World War II.

Unforgettable, for example, is the genocide committed in Bucha, a small town of 37 thousand inhabitants, conquered by the 64th Motorized Rifle Brigade.

In the style of Nazi SS exterminations, soldiers murdered 420 civilians, including women, children and the elderly.

The bodies were found in the streets, in homes or lying in ditches with their hands tied and signs of having been tortured. The person responsible for the massacre was Colonel Azatbek Omurbekon, who, for this criminal act, was awarded the honorary title of “Hero of the Russian Federation” by Putin.

The devastation has been such that the World Bank estimates that Ukraine would need 447 billion euros just to restore public services and build homes, but they require more resources to build schools, hospitals, railway lines, electrical installations and drinking water reservoirs. .

Moscow, however, is not interested in the condemnatory resolutions of the UN General Assembly or that the secretary general of that organization, Ambassador Antonio Guterres, accuses them of violating its charter and basic principles of International Law.

Even less so that the Criminal Court orders Putin's arrest for war crimes. The Russian satrap is perceived outside the laws and his country continues to maintain a seat on the Security Council as one of the five powers with the right to veto.

In addition, it counts as allies China, Iran and North Korea, and in our hemisphere Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and Bolivia, which have even reached the geopolitical degradation of offering their territories for the training of invading armed forces.

In that context, what can be expected from the meeting in Switzerland, which, according to Zelensky, is being sabotaged by China and Iran?

History teaches that one does not negotiate with tyrants, psychopathic people, incapable of agreeing or giving in to their decisions because they consider that doing so is a demonstration of fear or weakness before the adversary.

This is what happened at the Munich conference, held in September 1938 between Germany, France, Great Britain and Italy with the purpose of agreeing with Hitler to hand over the Czechoslovak Sudetenland in exchange for not invading that country. A few months later he did so, then attacked Poland and unleashed World War II.

The meeting in Switzerland will undoubtedly serve to consolidate the support of Western democracies for Ukraine, which could include the deployment of NATO troops to that country, thus committing themselves directly to the war conflict. For now, this event will be preceded by the meeting of the G-7 (USA, Canada, Japan, Italy, France, Australia and England) which will grant 50 billion dollars to kyiv for the acquisition of weapons, money coming from interest of assets blocked to Russia, and Washington, for its part, announces new sanctions on the Kremlin, which includes Chinese companies.

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