By World BEYOND War, February 24, 2022
President Biden is half right when he refers to “an unprovoked and unjustified attack by Russian military forces” — unjustified indeed, unprovoked not in the least. Two sides have been escalating this conflict for years, each claiming to be acting defensively, each provoking the other. The NATO nations’ weaponry and forces that are now imagined as a solution are also the original source of the conflict. It is right to grow indignant now about Ukraine’s “sovereignty,” but so would it have been during the U.S.-backed coup eight years ago that has endangered Russian-speaking Ukrainians.
This is no time for anything other than de-escalation by all sides. The United Nations and the International Criminal Court ought to be upholding the rule of law just as if this were in Africa rather than Europe, exactly as ought to have been done with the wars on Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, et alia. Criminal sanctions that violate the Geneva Conventions are not a means of holding warmakers to the rule of law. Prosecutions in courts are.
We need nuclear weapons taken out of service by both sides. We need serious negotiations, beginning with the Minsk 2 agreement, not just empty talk. We need nations other than Russia or the United States to step up and insist on de-escalation and de-militarization, before this slowly spiraling madness reaches nuclear apocalypse.
8 Responses
Crazy. Sadly WW3 will happen soon if we don’t stop these events from this from happening. The world should live in peace without fears of a Nuclear War! SAY NO TO WAR!
Yes, de-escalation, along with continuing to build communication and alliances with people of Russia and Ukraine! Just another example in a long long list of humans caught in the middle of a battle between superpowers. The innocents–all of humanity–pays the price.
First step: both Russia ad NATO renouncing use of tactical nuclear weapons in this conflict.
An initial step to take: Both NATO and Russia renouncing use of tactical nuclear weapons in this war.
Yes de-escalate and keep US troops OUT of the conflict! Things can spiral quickly and we will have to ask our children to “get under their desk. Take Nukes OFF the table!”
When did the Cold war end? Was it with the fall of the Soviet Union? As a child I feared the button being pushed, then I didn’t worry anymore. When?
When did the Cold War end? Was it with the fall of the Soviet Union? As a child I feared the button, then I didn’t fear it anymore, when was that and when did I have to start fearing it again?
I believe your television instructed you to stop fearing nukes around 1990 and has never altered those instructions again.