It all starts in July 2010, not on a bridge suspended on nothing at the border between the Western Powers and the enemy of the "Short Century", Russia, but in the aseptic rooms of the Vienna Airport1, when the delegations of Washington and the Kremlin, then "teleguidate" by Obama and Medvedev, exchanged, as in the old days, two groups of "unwelcome guests", already arrested as spies at the service (when not in the pay ...) a foreign country. Ten to four: perhaps, the Kremlin had been better than the CIA in infiltrating "human bugs" in the United States or perhaps it had been less cunning to look for them at home, since they saw it return so much more.
We remain in Vienna to read, at the end of March 2018, the declaration of the Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, released by Twitter in the aftermath of the expulsion of a hundred Russian diplomats by the European States, which, in addition to insisting on the policy of Austrian neutrality, proposes Austria as a bridging bridge between East and West. He refrains from hunting feluccas without resorting to the ambush of the call for ambassadorial consultations, as done - among others - by Portugal but by adhering to the declaration of solidarity with the United Kingdom signed by the European Council.
From Vienna I move to Bern. Switzerland, in the same days, does not even that: it limits itself to declaring itself ready to react "at the end of the investigations conducted by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons"2. Already, apparently from the parts of Bern it is preferred to give credit to an international and independent analysis of the serious episode of Salisbury. Meanwhile, the president of the Russian State Duma was greeted with all the honors ...3
From Berne to London: does anyone know whether rumors about the rapid improvement of the health conditions of Dad Skripal and his daughter Yulia have arrived at the board of directors of the Confederation? I wonder if they know that - far from being quarantined in a scientific way - the pets of the family of the former Russian spy and counter-spy have been locked in their house, probably without water or food, since the pigs of India are died of thirst and one of the cats was suppressed "because it was too rough". It was better for the two Novichok gas targets, ie Sergey and Yulia, if it is true that in these hours the girl is entertaining long conversations with relatives (perhaps without too much privacy, if it is true that the writer and the reader probably listen ...) and both you and dad are so good that with one Tweet His Majesty's foreign minister, Boris Johnson, congratulates the British health service on the excellent standards achieved. Perhaps on this last statement the former mayor of London and apostle of BREXIT has really a bit ... exaggerated.
Irony aside, the fact remains that the nerve gas probably used in the house has not managed to kill even two rodents for less than a century.
From London to Minsk, not to Moscow. We want to paint a scenario: the busty Anna Vasil'evna Kuščenko, in art Chapman, he goes to Belarus, the most faithful ally of Moscow, for a period, and someone sends her to sleep in a hospital in Minsk, administering her to a former nerve agent in the United Kingdom. By doing so, it pollutes an entire neighborhood in a leopard spot. In your opinion, how do Lukashenko and Putin react? Are they limited to expelling about fifty British diplomats? Or do they bring the world to the brink of a crisis comparable only to those of Berlin in the 1948, of Suez in the 1956 and of Cuba in the 1962?
Already, on closer inspection, what we are talking about - if proven - is an act of war, not just an international crime, since until today no government has used chemical weapons outside an international war context, except cases of civil war or terrorist attacks. Frankly, if the British government has the evidence and is only waiting to be confirmed by a third-party international organization, then what is the point of keeping diplomatic relations in place with Russia?
Let's face it openly: in reverse sides, Moscow would have demanded the delivery of those responsible, at the cost of violating the territorial sovereignty of the United Kingdom.
That said, the writer returns to Italy to enjoy the free show of the political theater. While the world is in danger of burning, the orchestra always plays a tune with us.
3 Israel's caution is also to be noted: according to a government spokesman, "Israel views with gravity the event which took place in Great Britain and condemns en vigorously. We hope that the international community will cooperate in order to avoid such further events ".
