By Norman Solomon, World BEYOND War, Maris 23, 2022
Yakin Rasha a Ukraine - kamar yakin Amurka a Afghanistan da Iraki - ya kamata a fahimci kisan gilla na dabbanci. Domin duk rashin jituwarsu, Kremlin da Fadar White House suna shirye su dogara da irin wannan ƙa'idodi: Mai yiwuwa ya yi daidai. Dokokin ƙasa da ƙasa ita ce abin da kuke ɗaukaka yayin da ba ku keta ta ba. Kuma a gida, haɓaka kishin ƙasa don tafiya tare da soja.
Yayin da duniya ke matukar bukatar riko da mizani guda na rashin cin zarafi da haƙƙin ɗan adam, a koyaushe ana samun wasu dalilai masu ruɗi a cikin ƙoƙarin tabbatar da rashin gaskiya. Akidu sun fi karkata fiye da pretzels lokacin da wasu mutane ba za su iya jure wa jarabar zabar bangaranci tsakanin sojojin da ke gaba da juna na tashin hankali ba.
A Amurka, tare da zaɓaɓɓun jami'ai da kafofin watsa labaru suna yin Allah wadai da kisan gillar da Rasha ke yi, munafuncin zai iya tsayawa a cikin ƙwaƙƙwaran mutanen da suke tuna cewa mamayar Afganistan da Iraki sun fara kisan gilla mai tsayi. Amma munafuncin Amurka ko ta yaya ba zai ba da uzuri na kisan gilla na yakin da Rasha ta yi wa Ukraine ba.
A lokaci guda kuma, yin tsalle-tsalle na gwamnatin Amurka a matsayin wani karfi na tabbatar da zaman lafiya, tafiya ce ta ban mamaki. Amurka yanzu tana cikin shekara ashirin da ɗaya na ketare kan iyakokinta da makamai masu linzami da masu tayar da bama-bamai da kuma takalmi a ƙasa da sunan "yaƙin da ta'addanci." A halin yanzu, Amurka tana kashewa fiye da 10 sau abin da Rasha ke yi wa sojojinta.
Yana da mahimmanci a ba da haske kan gwamnatin Amurka karya alkawari cewa NATO ba za ta fadada "inci daya zuwa gabas" ba bayan faduwar katangar Berlin. Fadada kungiyar tsaro ta NATO zuwa kan iyakar kasar Rasha wata hanya ce ta cin amanar masu fatan samun hadin kai cikin lumana a Turai. Abin da ya fi haka, NATO ta zama na'ura mai nisa don yin yaki, daga Yugoslavia a 1999 zuwa Afghanistan bayan 'yan shekaru zuwa Libya a 2011.
Mummunan tarihin NATO tun bayan bacewar kawancen soja na Warsaw Pact karkashin jagorancin Soviet sama da shekaru 30 da suka gabata, wani salo ne na shugabanni masu sa kai a cikin kasuwancin kasuwanci da suka himmatu wajen sauƙaƙe siyar da makamai masu yawa - ba ga membobin NATO da suka daɗe ba har ma ga ƙasashe. a Gabashin Turai da suka sami mamba. Kafofin yada labarai na Amurka suna kan karkata zuwa ga ambaton, ba su da haske sosai, yadda sadaukarwar da NATO ta yi ga aikin soja. kitso ribar riba na dillalan makamai. A lokacin da aka fara wannan shekaru goma, haɗin gwiwar kashe kuɗin soji na shekara-shekara na ƙasashen NATO ya ci tura $ 1 tiriliyan, kusan sau 20 na Rasha.
Bayan da kasar Rasha ta kaddamar da mamayar kasar Ukraine, an yi Allah wadai da harin daya US antiwar kungiyar bayan wani bayan wani wanda ya dade yana adawa da fadada NATO da ayyukan yaki. Veterans For Peace sun fitar da wata sanarwa mai gamsarwa la'anci mamayewar yayin da yake cewa "a matsayinmu na tsoffin sojoji mun san karuwar tashin hankali ne kawai ke haifar da tsattsauran ra'ayi." Kungiyar ta ce "Hanya guda daya tilo da za a yi a yanzu ita ce sadaukar da kai ga diflomasiyya ta hakika tare da tattaunawa mai tsanani - idan ba tare da hakan ba, rikici na iya jujjuya shi cikin sauki har ya kai ga kara tura duniya zuwa yakin nukiliya."
Sanarwar ta kara da cewa "Tsojoji Don Zaman Lafiya sun fahimci cewa wannan rikicin na yanzu bai faru ne kawai a cikin 'yan kwanakin da suka gabata ba, amma yana wakiltar shekaru da yawa na yanke shawara na siyasa da ayyukan gwamnati wadanda kawai suka ba da gudummawa ga gina gaba da cin zarafi tsakanin kasashe."
Duk da yake ya kamata mu kasance a sarari kuma ba tare da shakka ba cewa yakin Rasha a Ukraine wani laifi ne mai gudana, babba, wanda ba shi da uzuri ga bil'adama wanda gwamnatin Rasha ce kawai ke da alhakinsa, bai kamata mu kasance cikin rudani game da rawar da Amurka ke takawa wajen daidaita manyan hare-hare ba yayin da ake yin katsalandan a duniya. tsaro. Kuma tsarin siyasar gwamnatin Amurka a Turai ya kasance mafarin rikici da bala'o'i da ake iya gani.
Ka yi la'akari da wasiƙar annabci ga Shugaba Bill Clinton na lokacin wanda aka sake shi shekaru 25 da suka gabata, tare da fadada NATO a kusa da sararin sama. Manyan mutane 50 ne suka rattaba hannu a kan kafa tsarin siyasar kasashen waje - ciki har da rabin dozin tsoffin 'yan majalisar dattawa, tsohon sakataren tsaro Robert McNamara, da manyan fitattun mutane kamar Susan Eisenhower, Townsend Hoopes, Fred Ikle, Edward Luttwak, Paul Nitze, Richard Pipes, Stansfield Turner da Paul Warnke - wasiƙar ta yi don karantawa a yau. Ya yi gargadin cewa "yunkurin da Amurka ke jagoranta na fadada NATO" "kuskure ne na manufofin tarihi. Mun yi imanin cewa faɗaɗawar NATO zai rage tsaro na kawance da kuma kawo cikas ga zaman lafiyar Turai."
Wasikar ta ci gaba da jaddada cewa: "A cikin Rasha, fadada NATO, wanda ke ci gaba da adawa da shi a duk fadin siyasa, zai karfafa 'yan adawar da ba demokradiyya ba, da raunana wadanda ke goyon bayan yin gyare-gyare da hadin gwiwa tare da yammacin Turai, ya kawo Rashawa don yin tambayoyi ga dukan mukamin. - Yakin Cold, da juriya a cikin Duma zuwa yarjejeniyar START II da III. A cikin Turai, fadada NATO zai zana sabon layi na rarrabuwa tsakanin 'ins' da 'fitarwa,' haifar da rashin zaman lafiya, kuma a ƙarshe ya rage ma'anar tsaro na waɗannan ƙasashen da ba a haɗa su ba. "
Cewa ba a yi watsi da irin wannan gargaɗin na yau da kullun ba. Babban juggernaut na militarism mai hedikwata a Washington ba shi da sha'awar "kwanciyar hankali na Turai" ko "hankalin tsaro" ga duk ƙasashe a Turai. A lokacin, a cikin 1997, kunnuwa mafi ƙarfi sun kasance kurma ga irin wannan damuwa a ƙarshen titin Pennsylvania. Kuma har yanzu suna nan.
Yayin da masu neman afuwa ga gwamnatocin Rasha ko Amurka suna so su mai da hankali kan wasu gaskiyar don ware wasu, mummunan tashin hankali na kasashen biyu ya cancanci adawa kawai. Maƙiyinmu na gaske yaƙi ne.
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Norman Solomon shi ne darektan kasa na RootsAction.org kuma marubucin littattafai goma sha biyu da suka hada da Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State, wanda aka buga wannan shekara a cikin sabon bugu a matsayin littafin e-kyauta kyauta. Sauran littattafansa sun haɗa da Yaƙi Mai Sauƙi: Yadda Shugabanni da Pundits ke Ci gaba da Kaɗa Mu zuwa Mutuwa. Ya kasance wakilin Bernie Sanders daga California zuwa 2016 da 2020 Babban Taron Dimokuradiyya. Solomon shine wanda ya kafa kuma babban darektan Cibiyar Tabbatar da Gaskiyar Jama'a.
