Ndi Norman Solomon, World BEYOND War, March 23, 2022
Nkhondo yaku Russia ku Ukraine - monga nkhondo zaku US ku Afghanistan ndi Iraq - ziyenera kumveka ngati kupha anthu ambiri. Chifukwa cha udani wawo wonse, a Kremlin ndi White House ali okonzeka kudalira mfundo zofananira: Akhoza kukonza. Lamulo lapadziko lonse lapansi ndilomwe mumatamandidwa ngati simukuphwanya. Ndipo kunyumba, dzutsani utundu kuti upite ndi zankhondo.
Ngakhale kuti dziko likufunikira kwambiri kutsatira muyezo umodzi wosaukirana ndi ufulu wachibadwidwe, zifukwa zina zotsutsana zimakhalapo nthawi zonse pofuna kutsimikizira zosamveka. Malingaliro amapotoka kwambiri kuposa ma pretzels pamene anthu ena sangathe kukana chiyeso chosankha mbali pakati pa magulu ankhondo achiwawa oopsa.
Ku United States, ndi akuluakulu osankhidwa ndi atolankhani akudzudzula kwambiri kupha kwa Russia, chinyengocho chingathe kukhazikika m'makutu a anthu pokumbukira kuti kuwukira kwa Afghanistan ndi Iraq kudayamba kupha anthu kwanthawi yayitali. Koma chinyengo cha US sichimakhululukira chipwirikiti chakupha cha nkhondo ya Russia pa Ukraine.
Nthawi yomweyo, kulumphira pagulu la boma la US ngati mphamvu yamtendere ndi ulendo wongopeka. USA tsopano ili m'chaka chake cha makumi awiri ndi chimodzi chodutsa malire ndi zida zoponya mabomba ndi mabomba komanso nsapato pansi m'dzina la "nkhondo yowopsya." Pakadali pano, United States imawononga ndalama kuposa nthawi 10 zomwe Russia imachita kwa asitikali ake.
Ndikofunikira kuunikira boma la US malonjezano osweka kuti NATO sidzakulitsa "inchi imodzi kummawa" pambuyo pa kugwa kwa Khoma la Berlin. Kukulitsa NATO kumalire a Russia kunali kusakhulupirika kwapatsogolo kwa mgwirizano wamtendere ku Europe. Kuphatikiza apo, NATO idakhala chida chakutali chomenya nkhondo, kuchokera ku Yugoslavia ku 1999 kupita ku Afghanistan zaka zingapo kenako kupita ku Libya ku 2011.
Mbiri yoyipa ya NATO kuyambira pomwe mgwirizano wankhondo wotsogozedwa ndi Soviet wa Warsaw Pact unatha zaka 30 zapitazo ndi nkhani ya atsogoleri ochenjera ovala mabizinesi omwe akufuna kuthandizira kugulitsa zida zambiri - osati kwa mamembala akale a NATO komanso mayiko. ku Eastern Europe amene anapeza umembala. Makanema aku US ali pachiwopsezo chosayimitsa potchula, mochepera kuwunikira, momwe kudzipatulira kwa NATO pazankhondo kumapitilirabe. kunenepa malire a phindu za ogulitsa zida. Pamene zaka khumizi zimayamba, ndalama zophatikizana zankhondo zapachaka zamayiko a NATO zinali zitafika $ 1 zankhaninkhani,, pafupifupi nthawi 20 ku Russia.
Dziko la Russia litayamba kuukira dziko la Ukraine, anadzudzula chifukwa cha chiwembucho chimodzi Gulu lankhondo laku US pambuyo pake china pambuyo china zomwe zakhala zikutsutsa kukula kwa NATO ndi ntchito zankhondo. A Veterans For Peace adapereka mawu omveka bwino kutsutsa kuwukirako pomwe akunena kuti "monga omenyera nkhondo tikudziwa kuchuluka kwa chiwawa kumangowonjezera kuchita zinthu monyanyira." Bungweli linanena kuti "njira yokhayo yanzeru yomwe ikuchitika pano ndikudzipereka ku zokambirana zenizeni ndi zokambirana zazikulu - popanda zomwe, mikangano ingathe kutha mphamvu mpaka kukankhira dziko ku nkhondo ya nyukiliya."
Mawuwo adawonjezeranso kuti "Veterans For Peace akuzindikira kuti vutoli silinangochitika masiku angapo apitawa, koma likuyimira zaka zambiri za zisankho ndi zochita za boma zomwe zangowonjezera kukulitsa mikangano ndi ziwawa pakati pa mayiko."
Ngakhale tikuyenera kunena momveka bwino komanso mosakayikira kuti nkhondo ya Russia ku Ukraine ndi mlandu wopitilira, waukulu, wosakhululukidwa wotsutsana ndi anthu womwe boma la Russia ndi lomwe lili ndi udindo wawo, sitiyenera kuganiza mozama za gawo la US pakukhazikitsa ziwawa zazikuluzikulu pomwe tikuyenda padziko lonse lapansi. chitetezo. Ndipo njira yoyendetsera dziko la US ku Europe yakhala kalambulabwalo wa mikangano ndi masoka omwe akuwonekeratu.
Taganizirani za kalata yaulosi kwa Purezidenti Bill Clinton yemwe adatulutsidwa zaka 25 zapitazo, ndikukulitsa kwa NATO pafupi. Osaina ndi anthu 50 odziwika bwino m'mabungwe akunja - kuphatikiza theka la maseneta akale, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, ndi zowunikira zazikulu monga Susan Eisenhower, Townsend Hoopes, Fred Ikle, Edward Luttwak, Paul Nitze, Richard Pipes, Stansfield. Turner ndi Paul Warnke - kalatayo imapangitsa kuwerenga kosangalatsa lero. Idachenjeza kuti "kuyesayesa komweko komwe kutsogozedwa ndi US kukulitsa NATO" kunali "kulakwitsa kwazinthu zakale. Tikukhulupirira kuti kuwonjezeka kwa NATO kudzachepetsa chitetezo chogwirizana ndikusokoneza bata ku Europe. "
Kalatayo inapitiriza kutsindika kuti: "Ku Russia, kuwonjezeka kwa NATO, komwe kukupitirizabe kutsutsidwa m'magulu onse a ndale, kudzalimbitsa otsutsa omwe si a demokalase, kuchepetsa omwe akufuna kusintha ndi mgwirizano ndi mayiko a Kumadzulo, kuchititsa anthu a ku Russia kuti azikayikira udindo wonse. -Kukhazikika kwa Cold War, ndikulimbikitsa kukana ku Duma ku mapangano a START II ndi III. Ku Ulaya, kukula kwa NATO kudzakhazikitsa magawano atsopano pakati pa 'ins' ndi 'otuluka,' kulimbikitsa kusakhazikika, ndipo pamapeto pake kumachepetsa chitetezo cha mayiko omwe sakuphatikizidwa.
Sikuti zinangochitika mwangozi kuti machenjezo oterowo anyalanyazidwe. The bipartisan juggernaut of militarism yomwe ili ku Washington inalibe chidwi ndi "kukhazikika kwa Ulaya" kapena "malingaliro achitetezo" a mayiko onse ku Ulaya. Panthaŵiyo, mu 1997, makutu amphamvu kwambiri anali ogontha ku nkhaŵa zotere mbali zonse za Pennsylvania Avenue. Ndipo iwo akadali.
Ngakhale kuti opepesera a maboma a Russia kapena United States akufuna kuika maganizo pa choonadi china kusiya ena, nkhondo yowopsya ya mayiko onsewa ikuyenera kutsutsidwa. Mdani wathu weniweni ndi nkhondo.
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Norman Solomon ndiye mtsogoleri wadziko lonse wa RootsAction.org komanso wolemba mabuku khumi ndi awiri kuphatikiza Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State, lofalitsidwa chaka chino mu mtundu watsopano. e-book yaulere. Mabuku ake ena akuphatikiza War Made Easy: Momwe Atsogoleri ndi Opusitsa Amapitilizira Kutithamangitsira Ku Imfa. Anali nthumwi ya Bernie Sanders kuchokera ku California kupita ku 2016 ndi 2020 Democratic National Conventions. Solomon ndiye woyambitsa komanso director wamkulu wa Institute for Public Accuracy.
