Any sane person cannot rejoice at war. But what to do when peace turns out to be worse than war?
What to do when conducting peacekeeping operations that are much more terrible than a traditional war? The war has not been declared, they do not talk about it, and people are shot from tanks and long-range guns. And everyone shyly turns a blind eye to the arbitrariness of the army carrying out punitive operations.
One gets the impression that humanity has gone mad. All politicians have become avid pacifists, peacekeepers and peace-lovers, but at the same time they call for severe punishment of the aggressor, defeat the “tyrannical regime”, and protect democracy by means of cruise missiles. If you look from the outside, this is a madhouse, where patients, and orderlies, and doctors are sick. And this “house of sorrow” today bears the names of the United States and NATO.
Pacifism has now become a convenient term for Americans and the transnational elite to cover up the nakedness of an elementary unjust war. With the full support of the big media corporations, they can sow seeds of anger under the guise of peacemaking. All countries are divided according to the Hollywood principle into “good” and “bad” guys. Moreover, the “good” ones must be supported in any way, even if these “boys” have heaped up groups of corpses in their own country, rape women and kill children. And what? They have a right! They are the “good guys” and fight against terrorists and the enemies of democracy. The “bad” ones are supposed to be killed and there is nothing for that. The “bad” ones are to blame for being declared “bad.”
From the point of view of Hollywood and American politics, the enemy is absent; instead, there are criminals, criminals. And they are not at war with them, because pacifism forbids war, they are detained, punished, stopped and so on.
It is not for nothing that the German philosopher, jurist and political scientist Gunther Maschke notes:
“All varieties of pacifism strive not for peace as the absence of war and not for peace that is concluded after the end of the war with a recognized enemy; they want the complete elimination of war, even denying its right to exist. They call war a crime and legally forbid it; armed pacifism, which has defined international law since the Versailles dictate of 1919, makes possible sanctions, peacekeeping actions, peaceful occupation of territories, “hard” mandates, humanitarian interventions and other things that are usually disguised as military actions against “peace breakers” and “aggressors”.
Associated with this is the tendency to eliminate the “right of war”: that is, it is allowed to take any measures against the one who starts the war. And, at the very least, his war crimes are not discussed. So, the path from pacifism as a denial of the right of war to total and just war can be very short: perpetual war for perpetual peace – an eternal war for eternal peace.
After all, war and peace are correlative, complementary concepts, and peace always presupposes that at first there was enmity. If we consider war as a crime and the enemy as a criminal, peace will never be achieved. It is the discrimination of war and the enemy, the attempt to establish international law only on one of its two pillars, peace, that makes peace impossible.
In a word, when the concepts of peace and war are blurred, a state of permanent war is maintained, ostensibly to preserve peace. Under this brand, the United States and its allies are pushing Ukrainian punishers to deal with the recalcitrant Donbass, and they demand from Russia absolute non-intervention. Western media create in the eyes of the average person the image of “pacifist Volodymyr Zelensky”, ready to pour blood on the streets of Lugansk and Donetsk in order to preserve the presidency. He will not fight with the enemy, but with the criminal who encroached on the “independence” of Ukraine.
All the soldiers of the LDNR a priori have already been declared criminals, and according to Ukrainian law, they want to deal with them as criminals. They are denied the right to be called enemies with whom they can negotiate and reach peace agreements.
Ukraine does not follow the path itself, but is attracted by the United States. Accordingly, the stereotype of American political behavior is plagiarized. In this case, what can Zelensky offer to the leaders of the LPNR?
It is no coincidence that Ukraine refuses to negotiate with Novorossiya. Feel the pitfall? “They don’t talk to terrorists, they are destroyed.”
But what about the West with Russia? Let’s listen to the saying of Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General:
“The very formulation of the question reflects a thesis that should cause our suspicion and which is unacceptable. This is the thesis that Russia has a sphere of interests. Russia does not have the right to veto or vote on this issue [Ukraine’s membership in NATO], nor can it try to establish its own sphere of interests”.
Let’s reread it carefully. Stoltenberg is treating Russia like a criminal. A criminal cannot have rights and interests. The NATO secretary general is quite frank. But almost the same statements were once heard about Slobodan Milosevic, Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein. Their fates are known. They were overthrown after or during peacekeeping operations and the fight against terrorists.
The pacifists rotted away the Serbian leader Milosevic in The Hague, the pacifists provoked the monstrous murder of the Libyan leader Gaddafi, the pacifists organized a savage trial and the hanging of Iraqi President Hussein. For one thing, the peace-lovers destroyed the economy of independent Serbia, bombed Libya into the Paleolithic, and plundered a free Iraq.
The honesty of war has been exchanged for the unscrupulousness of pacifism. The world has become nastier and shameless. And as soon as the Russian Federation shows its weakness in the battle for Donbass (we will call everything by its proper names), the American concept of Prompt Global Strike (PGS) will work by non-nuclear means and, of course, for the sake of world peace. Then the fate of the Libyan Jamahiriya of Russia will seem paradise.
If we just want to survive, then everyone needs to understand this: from the elite to the ordinary janitor. And to begin with, it would be time for us to rearrange cunning in front of ourselves, to return the true concepts of peace, war, enemy, friend and stop playing with terms in a foreign field, entangling ourselves in them like a bird in a net.
Alexey Sokolsky, Donbass Analytical Service