Camus child, en Reflections on the guillotinethat one of the great misfortunes of mankind has been the failure of imagination.
Anyone who lives in one of our cities take the power to imagine destroyed thermal power plants, we pray day and night over everything that allows us to warm, wash, feed, communicate.
Imagine an enemy general who, when the bombers are not enough and the technicians want to repair them, decides to launch another missile (that day, the twenty-second), which hits buses and soldiers.
Imagine noches and Twenty degrees below the cold is paralyzingold people freezing in their bedrooms, dirt piling up because there is no water, children unable to dry, three plant buildings being destroyed, darkened and in the sky.
This is Kyiv, Dnieper, Yarkov, when I write these lines.
A Ukrainian soldier at the front in Pokrovsk, one of the hottest points of the war.
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If in the face of such an atrocity it is right to praise the “resilience” of Ukrainians: they are so brave, aren’t they? They withstood legions Putinhow do I not beat the general winter?
It is certain.
But it should not happen that this legitimate admiration for Ukrainian heroism is our beloved master and we are free to call a spade a spade.
It would be unfortunate that we were prevented from seeing that this was yet another form (even more terrifying since no real defense is possible with current Western aid) of war and killing.
Let me imagine but also understand that by cutting off the electricity, going to the village in the dark and cold, falling away because of the fragility of hearts that yield and are reconciled because of a certain temperature, It is also a way to destroy a nation.
The War of Fire and Sky.
Destroying clouds of drones and multiplying aircraft.
An embittered, infamous war… A war reduced to war crimes and crimes against humanity… but a war, more than ever.
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It’s the kind of war I’ve been thinking about Michel Foucault When he was describing the transition from politics to biopolitics and finally from biopolitics to thanatopolitics: this is the moment when power is no longer able to manage life until it has mastered the magnitude of death, calculated the exhaustion of the body, organized the descent into conflict and carefully managed it as a safeguard for the survival of human beings.
It was a war Hitler when he decided not to return to Leningrad, he gnawed at him, suffocated him, and hoped that the cold and heather would affect his work.
A siege strategy that, like de Stalin during the Holodomor, by organizing genocidal riots, they seek to create conditions in which life becomes biologically impossible and in which war becomes the administration of agony.
It was also de Julio Cesarnarrated en Gallic Warwhere the students of the past have always learned in Latin the lesson of cruelty, which contained: the abomination of the siege of Alesia, where the Roman legions preferred to die before the attack, to lower the moral temperature of the gallant braves, rather than face them.
And at the end humiliate them if they have nothing to do with it.
And that matters Xenophone en la Anabasiswith which we learn, when the army of the king of Persia came in the tenth month to host a thousand soldiers of the Hellenic cities, cut off their lives, moved them till the snow and heights hid the rest.
The memory of those frozen soldiers who, along with their fellow Greeks, were dying of the cold in her armor and waiting for sleep so that I don’t suffer, she makes my head spin when I have her on the phone these days with my friends from Kupiansk or Zaporizhia.
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All of this can be learned, according to each individual’s state of mind, through lessons, supplements, and true things.
What is Putin doing this fourth winter, on the politics of slow death, on the way to burn the heart behind the nerves, It is not an impromptu ruse or a political retreat from the battlefield.
It is a preconceived, proven and ancient doctrine.
But at the same time, to be tired for a year before the gates of Pokrovsko and Suma, to freeze in front and to be imprisoned by infants, the old, the sick and all the vulnerable is a confession of weakness. And the burden of the regime, which understood that it did not have the weapons, nor the human resources, and above all the energy and morale necessary to fight in another way.
It is therefore essential that the rest of Europe preserves the signatures.
This war is also a war and must continue by giving Ukraine what it needs. Not only to defend our cities, but to strike an even stronger blow against the invader.
In this state, Today I create more than ever in the country of Russia.
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