Critical moment for peace
02
Jun
Although there is always talk of peace negotiations, the war already involves
countless countries, both in the Arab world in the Israel vs. Hamas conflict, and in Europe over Ukraine vs. Russia, where NATO military forces and Russia’s allies are increasingly involved.
Richard Barrons, former British military chief, said: “Russia is taking territory, but at an unsustainably high cost” and it would take 91 years to create the “buffer zone” it wants, a strip inside Ukrainian territory, with losses of more than 1 thousand soldiers a day.
An operation at the end of the month called “Pavutyna” (spider’s web) in Ukraine wiped out 41 Russian strategic bombers that could carry nuclear warheads, but Russian retaliation is increasing and hitting civilian targets, using 117 small drones (photo).
There is a large military concentration in the south of Belarus, a Russian ally, NATO suspects it is to invade one of its allies, Russia has lost the support of Serbia, which was thought to be a pro-Russian government, and Germany has enormously increased its military apparatus.
In the Middle East conflict, it’s no different. In addition to the Arab world, Israel’s allies are calling for an end to the conflict and condemning Israel’s increasingly inhumane actions.
Israel, through Benjamin Netanyahu, has talked several times in the last month with the Trump administration about carrying out an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, saying that it would take 7 hours just to just to prepare every attack in detail and arm its defense, Trump is against it.
In Eastern Europe, the problem is negotiations. Russia wants between 20% and 22% of the Ukrainian territory conquered in the current war, and what makes it difficult is the growing war environment.
Manuel Furriela, who holds a master’s degree in interior law, told the press that “it’s very difficult to negotiate with a conflict going on”, stressing the importance of a ceasefire for talks to move forward.
There is always hope for peace for people with common sense and only those who know the horrors of war can imagine the disaster of a nuclear escalation in the current period and know that there is an urgent need for a rapid response from peace negotiators to the current situation.
