Giada Oricchio May 21, 2022
TO “Half past eight“, Marco Travaglio reveals genesis of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: “One has to know the harassment of Azov to understand the tangle”. In connection with the political talk of LA7, Friday May 20ththe editor of Il Fatto Quotidiano argued that Vladimir Putin never thought of taking over the whole country, installing a puppet government in Kyiv by eliminating Zelenskyy and advancing in Europe like a new Hitler: the Kremlin leader always and only wanted Donbass 2014 associated with occupied Crimea. And here he invited reflection: “Putin alone is responsible for this criminal and bloody war, but we are cautious because if we had understood that it was the second half of a long civil war that previously had other people responsible, we would have probably parameterized our response better and we wouldn’t have doomed half the world to such a devastating crisis.”
Repeating that numerous analytical errors had been made, Travaglio struck a blow at the “glorious” Azov battalion of pro-Nazi origin: “Only those who know exactly what he did in the Donbass, to which harassment the Russian-speakers were subjected, what is called democracy but is actually very incomplete cannot justify Russian aggression but at least rebuild the tangle of Ukraine”.
According to the director, the best solution is an international conference that will guarantee the integrity of what is or will be left of Ukraine, make the Russians and their neighbors feel unthreatened, and lead to an increase in arms used by are now in huge quantities and they risk the nuclear accident.