More than a compromise, the Zelensky-San Remo affair is an act of indignation

First they invite him, in the hope that he will help the share. Then they disgust him a bit, because Twitter doesn’t want to, Salvini opposes it, Meloni who knows. So they claim to “edit” it. Finally, the most typical gimmick of the mentality of the good average RAI official, the one who knows that in Viale Mazzini the best answer between yes and no is the “boh”: “Feel free to send us a letter, we’ll read it”. All so Italian, of course. Except that what for us is just a pathetic polemic from the Sanremo Festival (and it doesn’t matter if, as they say, the idea was suggested by the ubiquitous Bruno Vespa), is also a diplomatic matter in Kyiv. And so it’s understandable the surprise, annoyance, manifested by Zelensky’s staff for how this funny negotiation was handled. And such was the resentment that even mediation was necessary first by Palazzo Chigi and the Farnesina, then by Rai itself: all eager to explain to Zelensky that yes, all right, he will also be under the bombs from Putin, but here Amadeus has a Festival to run, an auditel to face with bare hands. And in short, in the end more than a compromise, the letter was an act of indignation. In the sense that Zelensky himself would have decided that it was better to end it like this, in an inglorious way.