Re: Impact of the Russia-Ukraine war Qualifier:
I am against all war and do not support Russia’s war on Ukraine
The post is not about common people living in any country but the governments and politicians
I am pained by so much loss of life and devastation in this war. This is another war for resources and hegemony by a (terribly) old generation brought up in Richard Nicon’s (white) house and Joseph Stalin’s Kremlin.
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Its obvious and easy and justified to execute the man who actually fired the bullet. But we should spend time fixing west’s responsibility in this war. They can’t get away being called a hero.
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There’s blood on the hands of politicians from all sides. They couldn’t stop the war because they couldn’t afford to give up their (unfair) strategic interests.
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India did well to stay neutral, despite moral, political and other (bullying) pressures from western world. Its easy to get branded pro-war if you don’t say what’s politically correct but as others pointed out, things are never black and white.
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Perpetuation of western hegemony has been an ongoing theme since hundreds of years. US and UK (Now a poor shadow and yes-man of America) are self-appointed caretakers of the world. US has military bases everywhere, why?
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NATO should have been dissolved after the end of cold war. If peace was the goal then why did they expand NATO towards east? Goal was and has been, hegemony.
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If you control people and ask them to do things against their wish, ghosts get created. Putin is the ghost of Soviet disintegration. US has created many such ghosts, around the world. Taliban? ISIS, who created them? Al Qaida? Someone’s terrorist is someone else’s hero.
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How many of us think youngesters will forgive these 85 and 70 year old presidents and their rookies? How many years have we gone back. Countries will arm up again. Nuclear disarmament will go for a toss. Everyone will want to be self-dependent thus producing and manufacturing everything they can. Climate concerns will go for a toss as planet will be exploited for energy and self-reliance, with a vengeance.
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Its not just the far right propaganda. Liberal publications are set in their thinking. Its a cacophony of similar messaging. They do not understand ‘others’.
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This war could have been avoided (or not?) by agreeing to contract NATO, a vestigial organisation from cold war, if they really wanted to. Who was NATO defending from after USSR fell? If you take this opportunity to increase your area of influence, someone can get up and challenge you.
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They should dissolve UN and build a new organisation. Why isn’t India part of UNSC? Brazil? What is this organisation born out of 2nd world war and continues to reflect 1945 world order and mentality? What are these rich country clubs like G5/G7 doing? Who cares for what UN or other such organisations say anyway, all of them serve interests of one or the other.
West is not going to give up their control ever.
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West, mostly US has waged so many wars. Did they want to save the world? Or was it for the resources and control? Who sanctioned them? I wonder if politicians look at things like we do. We come from the heart. We have moral dilemmas while taking sides in a war. We are common people. These dudes are different.
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While media throws up images of innocent people dying, for the consumption of other innocent people, the game remains about hegemony, control and energy. Nobody is a saint here.
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Colonies? Slavery? Erasing local cultures? Emissions? Nuclear weapons? Religious extremities? Some of the reasons they are now ‘Developed world’. West have been there done it all. Lets count how many countries India, Pakistan, Brazil, China or even Russia invaded in the past? What they call world wars were West Wars actually. They have fought with each other and they involve everyone else.
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Issuing warnings assumes someone will listen to you. Countries are not listening to you now. Now you have to shout yourself hoarse, sing and dance. Countries may reluctantly agree or forced to agree but not forever.
West has been exposed long back. Psychological shift has happened. Bullying and making everyone else dance to your tune will continue till they are so called super powers (sic!)
During Covid these ‘civilised’ countries have hoarded shit-load of vaccines, when poor countries didn’t have enough. Perhaps crisis brings out the worst in them. Racism?
Bottomline: Hegemony under the pretense of democratic values
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A better way to solve issues is to really have that intent in the first place, and mean it. Sending your forces thousands of miles away can’t be about anything other than politics. Selling and dumping your weapons at strategically important places won’t make you peace loving and caring brother, it makes you an arm dealer, like many others.
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Now go sanitise Russia. But guess what? The problem isn’t solved ! Because you are the other side of problem. Maybe you are the problem.
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Do not forget that you are equally responsible for every single innocent life lost in this war. You have vested interests of your own. You are not a hero.
As long as you want to control the world, ghosts will keep coming out of the graves you dig for others.
Of course, you really do not care about people getting killed, do you? Then why do you discriminate between people on the basis of race, locality and other things. Are some lives more precious than others? Is one dead better than the other dead? |