It is difficult to blame Federico Rampini, who wrote in Corriere della Sera: “We will not see processions in the streets against Putin and in memory of Navalny.” In fact, there is no trace of this when it comes to spontaneous marches , which are an expression of widespread outrage. Instead, Calenda should at least be given the honor of having prepared a demonstration of the parties: all acronyms. On the other hand, the pro-Palestine marches continue (some die-hards would say they are actually pro-Hamas). And “social media” is full of the usual tirades against Ukraine for not capitulating, against NATO for not dissolving, against the European Union for not collapsing. Nothing new, they will say. Except for the fact that the script repeats itself invariably, whatever happens in Moscow. Dissidents can be imprisoned and killed, others can fly out of any window; the few demonstrators who take to the streets to commemorate are beaten by police and the flowers placed next to harmless monuments are removed; The elections expected in a month appear to be the usual farce as there are no alternative candidates to Putin.
But nothing moves the haters of the West, who fearlessly continue their campaign against liberal democracy, in which they see all the flaws: the real ones and, above all, the perceived ones. However, the Russian autocrat and his circle are fully guaranteed leniency. Moreover, they are in excellent company, as the same sympathy is extended to Hamas, particularly Iran, which hangs women and homosexuals, the Hezbollah fighters and the Houthis on the Red Sea, and China, which threatens Taiwan. Almost no one sees the common thread that connects these groups and events. Everyone has their own special reason to hate America, Israel, of course Ukraine, the United Kingdom, the Atlantic Alliance and Europe. All together they are moved by one great anger against the West as a whole. That is, the part of the world that may be committing suicide, as authoritative intellectual followers of Oriana Fallaci claim, who may not be aware; but which continues to be the indispensable bastion of political and civil liberties.
Those who march through the streets insulting Ukraine and Israel have not yet understood, or perhaps understood too well, that both nations are fighting to avoid disappearing from the geographical map. The Russians make no secret of their goal; Iran and Hamas explicitly claim the same project. Putin considers himself the champion of “post-democracy,” a vague plan linked to pre-modern Russian nationalism. Compared to thirty or forty years ago, when the world was based on a bipolar balance, we are witnessing a dark regression, due not to globalization but to the fragmentation of the planet. And in the West it is considered normal or at least acceptable that hatred of liberal democracy, often tinged with anti-Semitism, has become an everyday topic in public debate. Just looking at the program and the guests of certain “talk shows” is enough to stay on Italian television. Navalny's death, which is effectively murder, could be a turning point. As Bill Browder, the American financier who is Putin's nemesis, says: “The West should act because what is happening in Russia is also a threat to its security.”