Historian Colosimo reveals why Putin ‘already lost the war’

Documentary filmmaker and essayist Jean-François Colosimo was the undisputed protagonist of “Bonjour chez vous”, an event organized last Friday on Public Sénat, a channel that examines political and parliamentary news to help society better understand its daily impact. in our territories. According to this expert, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has rebalanced the geopolitical balance, contrary to the strategy of destabilization imagined by the Kremlin.

“Vladimir Putin is trying to destabilize the rear, because he has problems at the front. But there is no greater matrix to unite a nation than an invasion. All Ukrainians are united behind the idea that ‘we must liberate the world,’ exhibited Jean-François Colismo during his speech.

The opposite of what Putin wanted happened

He considers that the geopolitical consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine seal the ideological defeat of the Kremlin and establish its imperialist objectives. “This invasion appears in the long term as necessarily losing, because it is the great law of the wars of the XXth century; an occupying army, which no longer knows what it is doing there, far from home, always ends up being defeated by a people who resist”, he specifies, developing his idea.

For this reason, he assures that Russia has already lost this war, that is, Vladimir Putin ended up exactly the opposite of what he was looking for. And it is that Ukraine exists in “solidarity, united as a strong nation”, which it did not have before the war. “Volodimir Zelensky came across as a rather boring president, an actor turned politician by chance, and today he comes across as Churchill,” he says.

western unity

In the international context, the West reflects a unity that seems to transcend the crises and clashes of recent years. In fact, he explains it with the following example: “We said that NATO was recruiting a country like Finland, while finishing meant maximum neutrality vis-à-vis Moscow.

Finally, he recalls that the Americans are back in Europe when they had a good meeting in the Pacific, in a context of strong rivalry with China. Moreover, Germany is rearming. “The loss of Russia can be spread over time, cause a number of deaths and suffering that Vladimir Putin does not care about,” he concludes.