In my talk, I would like to reflect on the way the war in Ukraine was discussed on television in the first days of its outbreak, analyzing the confrontation between political scientist Alessandro Orsini and other guests on the political talk show Piazza Pulita on the La7 channel in March 2022. I would like to compare the speeches carried out at that juncture with those found in the coverage by Italian daily newspapers of Chinese leader Xi Jinping's state visit to Moscow a year later to explain his peace plan to Russian President Vladimir Putin. In doing so, I intend to show that there is a common semiotic matrix, in the texts that make up this corpus. It is based on the juxtaposition of four narratives, which I refer to as "extremist", "universalist", "conflictual multipolarist" and "pacifist multipolarist", each characterized by a different structural logic, but united two by two by some similar principles. I also want to argue that the dominant positions in the body of texts on which my analysis hinges have been those least in favor of ending the conflict. Finally, by taking up some of the political theories on the multipolarism toward which the world would be heading (Fagan, 2017) and framing them within a conceptual apparatus of a narratological and structuralist matrix (Ferraro, 1999; Floch, 1990; Greimas, 1983), I intend to show what I believe is the best way to construct in the media a narrative of reality that is more functional for discussing peace.