The Institute for Research and Information on Volunteering (iriv) is associated to the international solidarity for Ukraine attacked by Russia on 24th February 2022. After a pandemic that has weakened democratic countries with the disturbing rise of conspiracy theories and hate speech on social networks, we do hope this war in Europe will be an opportunity to reflect on a new solidarity, among European and international allies.
This newsletter is the nineth issue since March 1, 2022.
In his book “Making a Movie,” Sidney Lumet writes, “We know what we’re doing. We just don’t seem to know.” Art and manner are sometimes so discreet that they give the impression of being perfectly natural, as if fallen from heaven, the fruit of chance. In the war in Ukraine, we cannot say that things were done with discretion by Russia- everything was carefully thought out, repeated without delicacy by the Russian president who was able to go around his «friends» before attacking Ukraine and the West. Several “scenarios” may have inspired him before things got out of hand. A new Western “narrative” could break Russian disinformation if it fights together, in the same direction, with mutual trust.