Di Cesare and “Finland’s annexation to NATO”: social storm

“The untimely annexation of Sweden and Finland to NATO would be a further escalation, a challenge to the Russian Federation, an act of war while pretending to talk about peace”. A tweet from the philosopher Donatella Di Cesare triggers a heated debate. The professor of theoretical philosophy at the “La Sapienza” University of Rome uses the term ‘annexation’ to refer to the prospect of Finland and Sweden joining NATO. “Before the fears of the Swedes and Finns there is the need for a cohabitation of the European peoples”, adds the professor, who in recent weeks has become a constant presence in various television programs dedicated to the war triggered by the aggression of Russia against Russia. Ukraine. It is the word ‘annexation’, of course, that triggers an avalanche of reactions. Thousands of users, famous and not, reply by disputing the claim. And there are those who comment with irony: “Putin could not have said it better”.