Ilario Piagnerelli wrote that Conte's party believed that Russia had reacted to a NATO encirclement and that the war would end if someone sought a diplomatic solution with Moscow. He added that, according to the party, the Ukrainian resistance was the result of Western "militarism." Piagnerelli defined the latter as a thesis of "proxy war," arguing that it denied Ukrainians the dignity of their own resistance, which many Kremlin propagandists, he said, predicted would collapse in a few days. He stated that supporters of this thesis continued to uphold it even after Donald Trump's election, which according to Piagnerelli had acted to weaken Ukraine, rehabilitate Putin, and favor an outcome of the conflict favorable to the Kremlin. He added that some had then shifted their criticisms to the EU and particularly to Ursula von der Leyen. https://t.co/Ijx8n2EMEa #GuerraUcraina #Geopolitica #Russia (translated)
