Blog Marcos L. Mucheroni Filosofia, Noosfera e cibercultura

Rumors of new wars are growing all over the world, even peaceful Canada and Greenland have been threatened by incomprehensible speeches from Donald Trump’s new US government, which will soon take office. The fall of the Trudeau government in Canada, which was celebrated by the population, demonstrates the country’s recent weaknesses.

The war in Eastern Europe continues with heavy casualties and now there is a lot of bombing on Russian territory: oil fields and strategic military locations such as Engels, the Rostov do Don air base and the Lipetsk region, and losses in Ukraine.

The bases of the Houthi rebels in Yemen have also been bombed by Israel, sparking protests in several Arab countries, and the conflict continues with several denunciations from humanitarian organizations and anti-Semitic allies.

Tensions have also risen with the inauguration of dictator Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, which continues without any possibility of a peaceful solution to a crisis that is already beyond the ideological, the governments of Chile and Colombia are also contesting the fraud in the elections there, and the government that was apparently elected, Gonzales Urrutia, even threatened to go to Venezuela for the inauguration, but backed down after the arrest and release of his deputy Maria Corina Machado.

The trade war between China and the US has also taken on new contours with the blocking of shipments of Chinese materials to 28 companies considered to be of suspicious use for both civilian and military purposes, especially those helping Taiwan to arm itself.

And the answer will always be yes. It’s good to remember that at such times there have always been leaders who have proclaimed peace: Mahatma Gandhi, the American leader Martin Luther King, sincere religious leaders (those who promote war must be put under suspicion) and all the millions of people who know that war is not beneficial and who ultimately always want the domination of one people over another.

Even if these people seem “idiotic” and naive, literature is full of these characters, as we mentioned last week with Dostoevsky’s characters, and I also remember a movie directed by Argentinian Sebastián Boresztein (A Chinese Tale, photo) which tells of an unexpected friendship between a grumpy hardware salesman and a Chinese migrant called Jun.

Peace is always desired in generous and serene hearts, conflict lives in the minds of people who look at everyone with suspicion, see enemies where there are none, and even though they talk about peace, what they want is to subjugate those who have different worldviews, cultures or religions.