It is often said that the dog is man’s best friend, including in this generic term women, children and even the dead: dog love has led some of these animals to die of grief on a tombstone or at the door of a hospital, let alone in his own home emptied of master forever. However, two things can be objected to this popular saying. First, that a dog wants the same thing and with the same fidelity and affection to a good person than to a scoundrel from Samantha. And, second, and for that very reason, that neither submission nor even unconditionality are traits of true affection. It is possible to extrapolate this denial to the servile people who feed the ego of their idols in exchange for four crumbs, trampling on their own honor. The case of dictators is typical: it causes embarrassment to see the suckers willing to skin their knees and torsos before their owners, junkies of flattery. Pity, however, the terrified servility of the masses before a totalitarian despot, that is: someone with all the power, and no moral restraint.
We have seen again on television the shows embarrassing pictures of Vladimir Putin on horseback with his milky torso exposed, or on a bear, or doing judo with guys who are crazy about hitting a big shot to feed the vanity of the almighty, and thus perhaps keep their job or their skin. To what extent the loss of contact with reality denoted by these numbers of the Russian president explains the decision to invade Ukraine, is something we do not know: the exit to the Mediterranean and the historical territorial aspiration of the waning ex-Soviet power, the geopolitics of such a distant in space -in the commitment to Europe?- and so close in practice to a United States that manages NATO are more plausible factors than the vanity and arrogance of this strange character, when interpreting a war that, as always throughout the ages, he punishes the weak and the nameless.
As anecdotes in such a state of things, the week has offered us a Pep Guardiola who points to the Atlantic Alliance and the EU as guilty of all this, forgetting Putin and his generals in the trial… perhaps conditioned by the possible support russian to putsch Catalan independence fighter Also, the demand of a certain anti-Amancio left that Inditex close its 500 establishments in Russia. Why the Galician group, in the end, has closed those stores is something really mysterious. Should everyone who does business in an aggressor country abandon his interests there? My opinion is no.
