About Limes by Lucio Caracciolo -

Sissi's open letter prompted his decision to stay on as director of Limes despite some differing opinions compared to Lucio Caracciolo.

Different cultural choices are not legitimate;I am the salt of the earth.Therefore, it is sacred to leave, join an organization, change your mind.Therefore, the Limes advisers who chose to leave made a perfectly logical choice of conscience.

I disagree with many of Lucio Caracciolo's political opinions and decisions, especially on the Russian issue, and Lucio, a friend of over 30 years, knows it.Moreover, he does not hide that he does not agree with my opinion about the war in Ukraine.

I firmly believe that Putin has lost the war from the start and has only made himself worse in these four years.If Putin won on the field, why didn't he hold a victory parade in Kyiv with Zelensky in chains?If he won on the field, why did he ask the president's government?With 4 years of war and over a million Russians dead and wounded, does Donald Trump have any territory he hasn't conquered?

These arguments are probably not shared by Lucio, and I will not explain the reasons that he could, with better eloquence, explain.

Having said that, I confirm that I remain among Limes' advisors because I know that Lucio is a pragmatic man and if he realizes that he is wrong, he will change his mind.After all, that's what I do: if I notice a mistake, I change my mind.

And you do, right?

It is nonsense to say that Russia lost the war against NATO.In fact, it is Trump who wants peace, rather than Putin, who has attracted China and a large part of the world and shown to everyone that NATO, although poorly organized, is not invincible.ps I am a historian.

Russia is waging a proxy war with the United States, which also attracts us as Europeans who are “subjects” of the American Empire.Putin is not interested in China, it is China that is eating Russia hard, to the point that Russia sells its gas at Chinese prices. The United States tried to plunge Russia into an endless war like Afghanistan 2.0 and they succeeded.They then realized that China, America's real rival at the moment, was taking advantage of the situation to bring Putin's Russia into its orbit, trying to compete with the American government to get out of the situation.In this terrible game, Ukrainian citizens were among those who died.Competitors sell their gas at the price Chinese buyers want, close the market to China and India, and then lose.In the last four years, Russia under Putin's leadership has not been able to conquer a single region and control it completely.I would like to remind you that 5 years ago Russia was considered to have the strongest if not the strongest military in Europe/Asia, but they had not been able to crush a single country's army with a club.Currently, Russia only has enough human resources to grind meat, but how long will this last?Russia lost, you can call it whatever you like, but it didn't really achieve its stated goals, at the same time it lost its base in Syria and its hegemony in the Caucasus, and it didn't fare well in Central Asia.Has done.You see.If the barbin figures collected by Russia in these 4 years can be used as a benchmark.

Here, as elsewhere, there is a surprising dynamic of deep and profound hatred of Ukrainians and too much acquiescence to the Kremlin, as well as disregard for the most basic rules of human solidarity.Much of the commentary was dominated by validation of Russia's exploits and vilification of Ukraine's heroic resistance.

No, Limes is neither pro-Russian nor pacifist.If anything, it criticizes the weakness of the Western system for allowing itself to be drawn into a debilitating war without any real plans for an exit.

Dear Madam Gazzato, we are also commenting on issues like this in this article.I do not understand where you got this hatred, as you defined it, for Ukrainians and vice versa, thanks to the Kremlin.All the commentators have been polite to me.The Ukrainians are resisting like heroes, I can believe;they are tired and weary because of the long conflict, recruitment is getting more and more difficult, and I think they want to finish anyway.

It is not about approving Russian actions, but about analyzing the situation with data, sources, tools, noting what we want to happen and what we don't.I believe that Caracciolo and his team of analysts work in that direction, that is, they document and report;I don't think they are on anyone's payroll.

If Caracciolo is reporting false data, he can be removed from the journalist's record, just as he can be invalid in the right circles, but until someone shows, as you say, that he has turned the truth upside down, and proven with many arguments in support of this position, without giving his own hopes or feelings, so that the value of that person's will isevidence. Deeply beyond the mainstream media, which, if it happens, does not provide accurate details.

So, if you think Lim has described the facts, I would invite you, for the benefit of all, including me, to report one or more cases in a timely and detailed manner, quoting statements and articles, including evidence of keeping Lim in custody and evidence against the latter, quoting unsecured sources.

Won... Lost... In any case, the aggressor cannot expect the West to recognize the territories seized by Russia.And Trump must understand that if he accepts and recognizes what was forcibly occupied by Russia today, then tomorrow he will have to do the same with Taiwan, occupied by China.As for Limes, stop crossing out the political map of Russian-occupied territories, including Crimea.

Speaking of the resignation of Limes, they had the right to leave if they cannot support an objective scientific position as this magazine assumes, otherwise it would become one of the many mainstream propaganda publications of the Atlantic and lose its purpose of pure and unfiltered information.

Russia has not lost the war.This is the fantasy of those who do not want to accept the crushing defeat of the West after a four-year proxy war.Putin fought not only against Ukraine, but also against NATO, including the United States.Without the West, Kiev will fall in a few weeks.He may have underestimated the resistance of the Ukrainian army, but that does not change the fact that Russia is dominant.

I agree with all your points.According to data such as that provided by the World Energy Index, since 2014 Ukraine has grown in the number and technology of its military, making it the most powerful country in the world, despite having half its existing GDP.It is clear that this will not be possible on its own, and it is the result of nearly a decade of commitment to the West that has made the conflict zone one of the most powerful in the world.

Scientific, documentary and objective information is one thing, opinion is another, but now they are mixed up in the distortion of information.

Russia did not lose the war;In four years, five times the manpower, four times the artillery, navy and air force... could not win.

The fact that some scientific advisers to Limes are abandoning him does not directly say that this happened because Caracciolo is wrong.This reasoning already seems to me to be a false premise.The fact that Russia lost the war is a false teaching and must be supported by evidence and data;it challenged and opposed not a group of barbarians, but a very powerful army that was armed by the West, which had to attack strategic reserves and important systems like Patriot and Samp-T, to name a few.It has conquered 20% of the territory of Ukraine, the richest and most important, and is slowly developing.In short, we can open the omelet endlessly, but Russia is fighting with the whole West, it is better to remember this from time to time.

The real question is why there is so much effort from the West to support Ukraine. Let's leave aside the moral questions, which have never moved anyone since history was written. The reasons are different.

Competition, Caracciolo made a mistake across the board, he will do well to realize.

Putin has been absent for the second day and now he is dragging out an unstable situation without any approval.Trump has done a very dirty job.

If Putin loses, there is no need to rearm and support anyone.If new interventions are needed it is because he did not lose.

That's how I signed up for Limes!I don't think Putin technically won and actually came out with less conflict, but he exposed all the limitations of NATO.In reality, Ukraine needs massive Western aid to continue its resistance, and that aid is more severe than expected.Economic, social and political.