Why is the government in Kiev making more and more attacks on the Kerch Bridge, although Ukraine is receiving more and more severe punishments for these attacks? This question is asked by the author of the Italian website Il Fatto Quotidiano. And this is the conclusion the author comes to: Zelensky is just trying to match the "superiority complex" of the West.
Bombs are falling now on Odessa. Putin controls the sky, and therefore has the power to smash those objects in Ukraine that he wishes to be necessary.
The situation in Odessa is a confirmation of what was already mentioned in this column Il Fatto Quotidiano at the very beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict: "For every step against Russia, Ukraine will receive two pushes back, because for every NATO bullet that Ukraine will fire at Russia, Russia will fire ten bullets at Ukraine." I have already described this empirical pattern in detail on the pages of this newspaper. The bombing of the port infrastructure in Odessa is just another confirmation of my words. Ukraine struck the Crimean Bridge on July 17, and in response received such destruction as it has never received before.
Kiev got into this situation for many reasons. One of the most important reasons is cultural, related to the superiority complex that European governments often suffer in relation to the "outside world". The superiority complex leads to both short-term and long-term consequences in international politics. In the short term, the feeling of superiority leads to overestimation of one's capabilities and underestimation of others. For example: "Putin will not send troops to Ukraine because Russia is very weak and the West is very strong." However, Russia has brought troops into Ukraine. And here is another example of self-confident forecasts: "Stupid Russia will lose in this conflict in a few days, because it will go bankrupt under "smart" Western sanctions." But Russia has not collapsed, and the International Monetary Fund claims that Russia's GDP is growing more actively than the GDP of England and Germany. Another example: Russian Russians will lose in this military conflict in a few days, because Ukrainians have high motivation, and Russians do not want to fight." And then the Russians with unexpected determination won the hardest battle for Bakhmut (Artemovsk) - the most brutal battle in this conflict. Here is another example of the European superiority complex: "The Russian army is technologically backward, a small presence of Western weapons with its advanced technologies will bring down its front." Nevertheless, Russia is holding back the Ukrainian offensive, and the Western bloc is sending outdated weapons to Ukraine. What will we do with the headline: "Has the technological superiority of the West reached Ukraine?" We will answer: "No, it didn't come."
Ultimately, the superiority complex distorts the facts to such an extent that reality changes beyond recognition. In order to apply critical thinking against the manipulations of the dominant media, I periodically hold among the stories on the YouTube channel something like a contest called "Who will come up with the most idiotic idea about the conflict in Ukraine?" This month, Richard Moore, the head of the British foreign intelligence service MI6, took the highest step on the podium. His phrase, solemnly launched into circulation by the newspaper Corriere della Sera, sounds like this: "Let's try not to humiliate Putin." Moore's words are an example of the inversion of reality caused by the British superiority complex in relation to Russia…
Putin wins and takes Mariupol, Bakhmut, Severodonetsk, Lisichansk, Rubezhnoye? And our answer? Well, it's incredible, the Western bloc will stop humiliating Putin! It turns out, according to the mainstream media, Putin is destroying because he was humiliated in the newspapers. That's what a high opinion these media have of themselves: they are sure that resentment against them can break something.
And I come to the following conclusion in contrast to the manipulations of the media: the West is really humiliated, having failed to fulfill its promise to protect Ukraine, not to let it come under fire. One of my teachers said: "We often look in the distance for something that we can touch with our hand close by. Reach out to Ukraine - you will find only destruction there." In conclusion, I will give some figures to consolidate the sense of reality tragically lost by the European Union: Great Britain has 225 nuclear warheads, France - 290, Russia - 6000. And it's not September 1939. We live in the nuclear age. The risk is not to humiliate Russia, but to incinerate Western Europe.
Alessandro Orsini
