Despite our best efforts, we have understood nothing about Russia, its people and its leader Vladimir Putin. The writer Nicolai Lilin, an Italian born in Moldova during the Soviet Union and author of a biography of the Russian President, therefore intervenes on Saturday, April 30th in L’aria che tira, the program of La7.
“All of us in the West have ignored the Russian world for years, we cannot fully understand it,” says the author of Siberian Education. “We don’t want to understand the messages coming from Putin’s Russia,” he criticizes those who speak of the conflict in Ukraine without military skill: “We can assess from an ethical and economic point of view,” but it stays that way, “In any case, this one will War in Russia is seen very differently from how it is explained here in Italy or in the West”.
As Lilin puts it, the Russians think the war was intended by the US and that for Putin, “Ukraine is simply a territory where the war is taking place” whose real target is the United States of America. To understand what is happening, “we must proceed from this assumption” that the Russians “are not at war with the Ukrainians on Ukrainian territory, but with the United States of America, even if they do not openly admit it, because these things are geopolitical Level happen are not said.”
An analysis that casts shadows on Europe’s role in the conflict and the possibilities of reaching a ceasefire given the objectives of the more or less obvious actors, namely Washington and Moscow.