The war games between Ukraine and Russia have Americans on the verge of a nervous breakdown due to the effect on Wall Street markets and gasoline prices. Both countries are among the main producers of the fuel and any movement of troops threatens the flow in Europe.
Here, before the first shot was fired, gasoline was already expensive, and now in some stations it is pays six dollars a gallon, that is why there is growing interest in stopping the military actions, with which Valdimir Putin claims to defend the 14.000 victims of the last eight years, after the creation of the People’s Republics Donetsk and Luhansk.
But in reality, Putin wants to prevent Ukraine from joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO, which would allow Ukraine to increase its power and allies to attack Russia and return the country to being part of the Soviet empire as it was before perestroika.
On the other side of the curtain appears as a piece in the shoe Volodymyr Zelensky, who became an actor from comedies to se r the sixth president, elected by the 73,2% of the votes of a nation of 44 millions of inhabitants and that he does not hide his interest in being part of the European Union and NATO.
Here in the United States we remember him when Donald Trump proposed that he investigate Biden in exchange for military aid. His name also appeared in the Pandora Papers, of the rich and powerful with television companies abroad.
To his 44 years, Zelensky lives the story he starred in as an actor in comedies, when he became president of the second largest country in the Old Continent, after Russia, but now facing the siege of Putin.
And we in This part of the globe is suffering from the failed efforts of the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, his colleague from the European Council, Jeppe Tranholm-Mikkelsen, and NATO, Jens Stoltenberg together with the security councils of the United States, Germany, France and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, to prevent war. Sanctions against Russian banks, companies, politicians, or the cancellation of the gas pipeline Nordstream 2 between Russia and Germany did not help either.
With oil hovering the $100 dollars a barrel, the die is cast, and there is fear that the 2008 escalation will return when it reached $148 dollars and we had to pay more for the same fuel.
Peace is in the hands of these protagonists of history and the economy of our pockets. Because if the fuel continues to rise, there will be no one to stop the inflation.
Sofía Villa prepares this column in her personal capacity. She works as a Producer Writer at Univision NY and her opinions do not represent Univision Communications Inc.