While on the one hand the world’s big media endlessly reproduce the horrifying images of hundreds of corpses scattered in Bucha, Ukraine, on the other they stoke the fire of a war escalation that can lead us to nuclear holocaust in months.
Whoever committed this massacre (it seems most likely Russian soldiers) will go down in the annals of history as an unforgivable crime. But I think the smoke does not let see the horizon. You don’t see where we come from and, worse, you don’t see where we’re going. Although I have repeated it in different media since long before the war, wrong or not, I am going to insist on those two sides of the road that the fire does not let us see.
Let’s start with a simple and more immediate question: instead of continuing the endless, dangerous and known useless game of arbitral sanctions, Why don’t they impose the obligation to negotiate a resolution to the conflict between Russia and NATO once and for all and before innocent people continue to die?
A reasonable solution would be the dissolution of NATO in exchange for Russia’s withdrawal from Ukraine, but that would be branded as extremist. Business owners do not negotiate.
There are many other options, such as the most obvious and pragmatic one, that is, Ukraine’s neutrality status (with provincial autonomy from Donbass), which is where it should have started instead of provoking Russia by integrating Ukraine into NATO and deploy missiles four minutes from Moscow.
The neutrality or non-membership of NATO has always been the case for Austria, Finland, Sweden and other neighboring countries, some of which have just declared the possibility of joining NATO, showing where the old merchants are going. of the war and demonstrating, once again, that not only in Latin America the fight against communism was nothing more than the perfect excuse to maintain geopolitical dominance and protect corporate, class and capital interests.
What do they want, apart from expanding militarization more and more in a world, now that the excuse of communism and, more recently, of Islamic terrorism, which in Afghanistan alone left eight billion dollars in profits to the big companies specializing in “security”?
Do you think that a Russia surrounded by that anachronistic and mafia organization NATO would make Europe and the world a safer place?
You have to be under the influence of alcohol to forget that we are talking about one of the two atomic superpowers and imagine such stupidity. Or similar evil of organized crime. If it was really about “security”, if they were really sincere about “the right to defend themselves” that countries have, they would never have tried to break this order that, judging by the ongoing war, has not made the world safer , If not the opposite. Much less Ukraine.
Of course, those who have that power to negotiate are not being splashed with the blood of Russians and Ukrainians but, on the contrary, are doing their business, so it may take a few weeks, if not months, for crocodile tears to stop falling on whiskey and start negotiating seriously.