The deliberately and methodically perpetuated war tragedy in the Ukraine confirms once more the axiom in International Relations that the competitive system cannot survive without rivals, enemies, since it invents, provokes, creates them.
And thus, inhumane, profit-making circles invest in war tragedies with cynical disregard for the tragic consequences: human losses, refugees, hunger, insecurity, fear-mongering, terrorism, uncertainty about tomorrow, misery. And these circuits, with their unconscious agents, influence political, religious, etc. in various ways. leaderships, media, Cinema, NGO, etc., buying off those who are morally vulnerable to discover or cause power vacuums, especially where there are social and economic problems, national minorities, etc., and then they intervene and intervene causing civil wars, etc. conflicts under the banner of “Divide et Impera” while investing in them.
And for the sake of truth, making an epigrammatic review of modern history, who, for example, armed the hand of the murderer of the Austrian Archduke and his wife in June 1914 in Sarajevo and World War I was triggered? What did the Nye Commission of the US Senate (1934-1936) discover and reveal about the illegal and unethical cooperation of arms production and trading companies with Germans in WWI? And while the victorious democratic Powers established the ICC to establish peace, etc., the same unscrupulous, profiteering, criminal circles undermined the Organization and even rejected the proposal of the American and French (Kellogg-Briand) subs to ban the war in general. And the League of Nations, powerless, could not prevent, for example, the invasion of the Italian Fascists in Abyssinia (Ethiopia), the attack of the USSR on Finland, the Spanish civil war, etc., and finally it was driven to suicide.
Then, what secret organization in Germany with its multinational billionaire members, recruited the hardened criminal Hitler, and bloodied the world with some 80 million victims?
And although, again, the victorious, democratic Powers created the UN as a successor to the failed ICC to establish international peace, etc., again the same circuits undermined the Organization with the known results: Korean Wars, Vietnam, Congo, M. East, Latin America, Africa, Afghanistan, etc., and now Ukraine. And there is certainly not going to be an end to modern dehumanization, to modern "Babel", to modern "Cainism", to modern militarism, as long as the UN does not manage to ban war, any war, and establish peace. Obviously, the same circles above are taking care to undermine any peace effort by emphasizing and cultivating the wild instincts of man, starting with the fear of survival, since they have in the meantime created, through stiff competition, jungle conditions for the peoples in the context of the exploitation of man by man , spreading and enforcing violence, subculture, lower passions, undermining religious and patriotic beliefs, ideals and values such as family, teamwork, etc., emphasizing extreme individualism and thus dividing and using people as tools for wars, etc. a. The ancient Latin "Homo homini lupus est" is tragically confirmed! Also, isn't climate change, the decline, in general, of the planet from human competitive, profit-making activities, "war"?
And it is a tragic irony that powerful countries, called "democratic" and "peaceful", are indifferent to the decay of the world.
How else is their non-intervention justified for honest and effective negotiations for the immediate end of the war in Ukraine, which according to press reports, has caused approximately 90 thousand deaths? How is their "guilty" tolerance of Turkey's neo-imperialism, the illegal occupation of a part of the Republic of Cyprus for 48 years in violation of dozens of UN resolutions, etc. justified? Also the abandonment of the Kurdish and Palestinian problem for decades? Also, civil conflicts in African countries, piracy, terrorism, drugs, etc. in many places; Why don't they solve the problems at their root so that there are no dramatic and tragic developments that we mentioned above? End of climate change and related problems, the fight against poverty, underdevelopment, urbanism, etc., that the relevant UN Organizations can effectively deal with? The eloquent answer comes naturally: Indifference, due to corruption by power, to the dehumanization fostered by competitive, profit-making circles and resulting in warmongering, which, unfortunately, the masses have accepted as an inevitable reality after, of course, they have been drugged by the media. , cinema, etc., as they struggle to adapt and survive without resisting, without claiming - peacefully - their fundamental rights. Return to the Middle Ages, the Inquisition, human sacrifices for the sake of the "happily fortunate" or their own invented "Gods"?
Are the hundreds of millions of human victims of global and regional wars, civil conflicts, etc. not enough? And the indifference of religious, political etc. leaders, but also the people, in red! Authoritarianism, extreme individualism, dogmatism, formalism, materialistic insanity! And the "Gods" on their thrones or have they migrated to other planets? Shouldn't there be peaceful resistance before it's too late? SI VIS PACEM PARA PACEM!
P.I.Karafotias
former Managing Director of the UN Office for Greece, Cyprus, Israel, Professor of International Relations, author, columnist
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