The apparently irreversible drift towards World War III in Ukraine is explained by the fact that “The human mind, in a closed system, tends to decouple from a concrete dialectics and hardly cancels its own choices, once these have turned into a process,” wrote Ivan Rizzi, chairman of the Italian Institute for High Strategic and Political Studies (IASSP), in ilSussidiario.net. Rizzi calls it “the Technical-Algorithmic Principle.” “We were so technically engaged in organizing 91 (military) divisions, that there was no time for reason,” top Wehrmacht officers argued at the Nuremberg Trial.
The discussion on the possible use of nuclear weapons, initiated by the New York Times, is a terrifying example of how such an algorithm works. “The very fact that such an hypothesis is raised … and national debates and talk shows talk about it, sets in motion the scheme of a self-fulfilling prophecy. In other words, we are developing a hallucinatory dialogue destined to increase schizophrenia and fatalize events.” Once we have entered into the “mortal flow” of language, “sooner or later it is possible that the strategic algorithm makes it actual with facts.” It is a Thucydides trap; it is how World War I started.
“We must nevertheless challenge the fatalism of an escalation of the conflict in Europe, in order not to be just helpless spectators. Something must be done to break the algorithm of an apocalyptical epilogue, to have a moderate voice, the voice of tolerance, be heard—as the Good is always only a compromise and Evil is always evil that, when it starts, nobody knows when and how it ends.”
The author concludes: “Meanwhile, our government is nicely betraying Art. 11 of our Constitution, which says that ‘Italy repudiates war,’ with an executive order; in clear opposition to the will of Italians, most of whom are against supplying Ukraine with weapons and NATO waging war against Russia.”
