Manon Fossat 8:29 a.m., March 7, 2022, modified at 9:05 a.m., March 7, 2022
On Monday’s Europe Matin, former senior civil servant and defense specialist Pierre Conesa returned to the Russian military invasion of Ukraine. He drew a parallel between the operation launched by Vladimir Putin and the US operation in Iraq, believing that “in terms of lies, we did a lot better” than the Russian president.
On the twelfth day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian army shelled the country’s second city of Kharkov and tightened control over the capital Kiev, and on this day the third session of Russian-Ukrainian negotiations is scheduled, with little hope of success. Invited to the Europe Matin exhibition on Monday, defense specialist Pierre Coneza calculated that this war “will last” and “will cost the Russians very dearly.” He also drew parallels between the Russian invasion and the “American invasion of Iraq”.
“Putin is a political leader and he is responsible for his actions. However, in the waiting room of the International Criminal Court, I hope there is George W. Bush. Because when it comes to lying, there are a lot of things done better than Vladimir Putin. The Russian president lied while negotiating and preparing his invasion at the same time,” he began, before pointing his finger at the “big mass of the UN General Assembly” prior to the US intervention in Iraq.
“Putin is above all an outcast for the West”
“In the lie, we still have an order of priorities that should be kept. Because today we conclude that Putin is an outcast. But in fact, he is primarily for the West. Africans in seventeen states refused to vote for the proposal to the UN, meaning we even have allies who are leaving us. Take the case of Mali, which appeals to Wagner, do you believe that he will condemn the invasion of Ukraine?
For Pierre Conesa, geopolitics is completely different. “We do not draw conclusions because we are used to dictating moral order to Europe. Nevertheless, since 1991 we have carried out about forty military interventions,” the former high-ranking official recalled. “Western strategists consider the earth to be flat and that we are its center. And everything on the periphery is terra barbaris, in which we can interfere.”