by Federico LaMattina
In Ukraine there is a fight for over a month and as in any war, Manichaean and unidirectional conflict views tend to emerge. This is certainly happening in Russia and Ukraine, which built them artificially his own narrative of the conflict, which works for war propaganda, but more worryingly, even in countries outside the conflict, we are witnessing a radicalization of political positions, often accompanied by the demonization of dissent. In Italy, when pacifist dissent is not censored (and it is), it is ridiculed in the name of empty rhetoric and abstract adherence to “Western values.
We have witnessed the public attack and ridicule of highprofile intellectuals who have resisted a simplistic view of the ongoing conflict. Some of them like Alessandro Orsini who attempted to interpret the conflict realistically were the subject of a reallife thought distortion, and Orsini even had to defend the ABCs of the profession of historian and scholar in a surreal televised debate, claiming the right to discuss events of which one had no direct knowledge. It is not out of place to speak of a real climate Neo Martial Artist in which, in addition to journalists and scientists, artists of Russian nationality took part, who were insanely asked for some kind of preventive abjuration. The Anpi’s pacifist positions were often ridiculed and distorted; Even Catholic pacifism has often been eclipsed, and Pope Francis’ sane antiwar stances have had little support and been downplayed by the mainstream media.
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Several Italian intellectuals have tried to convey a complex vision of the conflict and, in addition to the already mentioned Alessandro Orsini, we can mention important scholars such as Luciano Canfora, Franco Cardini, Angelo d’Orsi and Aldo Ferrari. The sensible pacifist positions of the famous physicist Carlo Rovelli have been criticized because Rovelli should apparently confine himself to “being a physicist” and leave the issue of peace to the supposed experts and analysts (all coincidentally united by the same vision of events with faded gradations of divergence).
What is amazing is the refusal to elaborate Phenomena and to discuss them by putting them in a historical perspective: as if to understand automatically justify. Acknowledging the tragic nature of history does not mean justifying the present, but trying to understand it without providing an incomplete vision of events. In fact, the open condemnation of the Russian invasion by various intellectuals who have expressed critical positions on the role of the West was not enough: for the Vestals of the only thought it is necessary to submit fully to the dominant narrative and only discuss the irrelevant nuances.
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Outside Italy, many complex and articulate analyzes have emerged, such as those of John Mearsheimer (a famous international relations scholar of the realist school), the veteran Russian scholar Andrei Tsygankov, or the international relations scholar Stephen Walt. These analyses, which often differ from one another in various aspects, are united in the attempt to provide them a systemic explanation of the ongoing events. But in our country we’d rather just dust off Fukuyama…
The time factor is limited strong the historical understanding of the conflict: This war is assessed differently due to the historical perspective and the medium and longterm consequences. The study of history in the midst of events is bound to be limiting, but necessary nonetheless. It is foolish to think of reducing the vision of such epochal events (symptomatic of a systemic imbalance in international relations) to a Manichaean confrontation between “good and bad”.
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