Our press, like the rest of the Western world, comes in – let’s not forget that there are other worlds too – full of headlines about the war in Ukraine, which everyone calls “Putin’s war”.
“EU leaders agree on joint arms purchases” “European Union’s sixth blow reaches Russia’s financial heart.” “Does the West have the capacity to produce the amount of weapons that Ukraine needs?”
It all revolves around the rearmament of the occupied country in the face of the brutal Russian bear, apparently the only one responsible for what happened, because what has happened in the Russian-dominated pro-independence areas of eastern Ukraine since 2014 is done on purpose. forgotten.
It is something that is no longer of interest, as it seems that it doesn’t matter that songs, movies and books in Russian, the new enemy language, are banned by the Volodímir Zelenski Government as if to blame. The banning of eleven opposition parties is of no concern either.
Ukraine today is a liberal democracy that must be defended against the occupying country because if autocrat Putin is not stopped now, he will not stop and will continue his brutal crusade against the free world.
Besides the very real and bloody war that the troops of both sides have waged on Ukrainian soil for months, there is the economic-financial war waged by Washington and Brussels against Russia. And a third war: information warfare.
This has often evolved into a war propaganda system; There is almost no contradiction in the news from Kiev, and any opposition in the official version immediately makes the person responsible a suspect of complicity with Putin. Pacifism is a taboo word lately.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian government is increasingly demanding weapons from the West. Even Social Democratic Foreign Minister Olaf Scholz, one of the most reluctant to send heavy weapons to Ukraine, had to yield to pressure from Kiev and his own liberal and environmental partners, who were the most aggressive towards Moscow.
The Ukrainians cannot be denied the war material they demand because they are defending not only a country that has been brutally attacked, but also “democracy” and “our values”.
Ask all gypsy ethnic Ukrainians about our “values” who had to camp at Prague’s train station due to the indifference of humanitarian organizations that did not treat them like other refugees. Or the Yemenis who are oppressed by the weapons we sell to Saudi Arabia.
Meanwhile, while the war drags on and seems to have no end, the number of victims on both sides does not seem to matter much lately: civilians and men who fought heroically for their homeland or simple cannon fodder.
First of all, they talk about weapons vehicles, new anti-aircraft systems that Germany will send, precision missiles promised by the USA, or Russian tanks turned into scrap metal by the Ukrainian Army.
But if there is something missing and not talked about enough, it is diplomacy. Where is this? Has it been forgotten that such a thing exists and has served to both prevent and end thousands of bloody conflicts throughout history?
Have any efforts been made in this direction? Or will we continue to witness, for months or even years, a war that should be avoided with the greater will of one another and that will leave us much poorer for all of us, let alone the Ukrainian tragedy? ?
Everyone, except arms manufacturers and those who always profit from conflict.
The French and Germans tried the Minsk agreements at one point, which guaranteed the autonomy of the Russian territory in eastern Ukraine, but eventually the logic of war prevailed.
Yes, Putin is undoubtedly responsible for this great massacre, by launching a criminal war outside of international law and under the pretext of defending the Russian-speaking and de-Nazizing Ukraine, but he is not the only one responsible.