Melanie Faure
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09:30, March 04, 2022
Jacques Attali returned to the origin and the stakes of the war between Russia and Ukraine on Europe 1, this Friday. The enarque and former adviser to François Mitterrand underlines, according to him, the imminent danger of a “double military and climatic nuclear apocalypse” on the whole world.
On February 24, Russia invaded Ukraine. Immediately, Europe and the United States supported Volodymyr Zelensky in this conflict, the result of long years of tension between the Eastern European country and the Russian federal state. For Jacques Attali, the conflict is the result of the “slag” of the past. “It is rather a last or almost last slag from the world of the past than an omen of a world of the future”, estimated this Friday on Europe 1 the former adviser to François Mitterrand.
He continues: “But this dross can destroy humanity. I was talking […]of a double nuclear, military and climatic apocalypse that threatens us. The climatic apocalypse is that of tomorrow, the nuclear apocalypse is the residue of the medieval threats of the 20th century. It’s there, it never exploded because we’ve managed to be good so far. She could explode. We have never been so close to a planetary catastrophe on this terrain.”
“Should we attack the lion?”
Jacques Attali wonders about the strategy to adopt against Vladimir Poutine. “Do we have an interest in calming the lion by being calm? Or do we have an interest in attacking the lion and risking our life and the life of all humanity?”, He raises, about the President Russian. “Economic sanctions will have an impact,” he said. “I persist in thinking of the interest of all humanity and that we defend by intervening militarily only the member countries of NATO, the others are not part of our alliance. We have never intervened when the Soviet Union massacred in Berlin in 52, in Warsaw in 56, in Budapest in 56, in Prague in 68, in Warsaw again in 80. We let it happen.
The enarque concludes by evoking Russia and its “vocation” to be a European nation – part of the territory is in Europe: “Russia is a European nation. For the moment, it is governed in a medieval way , but it remains and is destined to be a nation.”