Who knows what he looked like Valeriy Gerasimov. if he asks Domenico Quiricothe most hated Italian journalist Wladimir Putinso much so that the Russian ambassador in Italy Razov he went all the way to the public prosecutor’s office in Rome to file a complaint against him for “inciting the murder” of the Kremlin chief. But the question in the press is purely rhetorical: the 66yearold chief of staff of the Russian Armed Forces, who was mysteriously kept out of circulation for 12 days, almost certainly opposed the decision of the President of invade Ukraine. He knew it would be militarily madness, a little big Afghanistan or Vietnam depending on your point of view. Definitely a bet that’s almost impossible to win, but just as impossible to refuse because the boss asked you to play it (and win it, of course).
The pictures of Putin, who burns his secret service officers worldwide, are symbolic and not very convinced of the “special operation”. And indeed, the invasion took place despite Gerasimov’s frost of the powerful Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu (like Gerasimov, who disappeared a few weeks ago and is now back in poor health) and other senior officials. I am 7 the generals who fell in the fieldrecalls Quirico, a sign that “the situation is so compromised that, in order not to risk being torpedoed by Cadornian style or worse (we are in a despotic regime), a placement in reserve often slips in prison or in firing squad) Heroism is the only way out.
Shoigu to say would have been hit by heart attack because of Putin’s harsh complaints about his deficient work. And from Gerasimov it is not known. Probably his relegation, actually a flaw. It was he who “modernized the decrepit military forces of the Yeltsin era, dearly loved by the President,” Quirico always recalls, but now “he seems already relegated to the fringes of the Kremlin’s admittance.” After all, having put the keys in the hands of the “technicians” Gerasimov and Shoigu, Putin preferred to put everything on “general lackeys‘, those who don’t dare to say ‘no’. And again Quirico asks himself: “Is it better to incense the General Court, an incompetent but always obedient one?” Or trust the technicians, those who know the craft, like Gerasimov, who is known as a capable planner? With them, however, you run the risk of having to argue, of being told no, horror! Realizing that you’re not always right,” Quirico concludes.
