The edge of the abyss
22
Mar
It is the new essay by the century-old philosopher and educator
Edgar Morin, lucid as ever and sensible, he says that a neutral Ukraine would be accepted by all and does not fail to condemn barbarism and the risk of a planetary war.
In his article Morin recalls the Russian missile crisis in Cuba in 1962, in which the world was also on the brink of an atomic catastrophe, he was at the time hospitalized in New York and a friend (Stanley Plastrik) informed him every day of the risk of a bomb falling on the city, until Khrushchov agreed to withdraw the missiles from Cuba.
He sees the current crisis as the same uncertainty as tomorrow, now with missiles aimed at the main capitals of Europe, and recalls the danger of agreements and more resolved issues that give a truce, but do not eliminate the possibility of parents, we have already posted about this here in World War II.
Morin recalls his article written on May 3, 2015, therefore after the 2014 Minsk agreement, that “it would be desirable for François Hollande, Laurent Fabius and Manuel Walls to become aware of the merciless increase in dangers and propose a coherent peace plan of a Federalist Ukraine, trace of union between West and East. We are no longer in the time to seek the best, we are in the time when it becomes necessary to avoid the worst”, he wrote at the time.
There was a growing evolution of NATO in Europe, but also the reconstruction of Russia as a military superpower establishing its zones of influence in Syria and Africa, in addition to the bloody reintegration of Chechnya through two wars (1994-1996 and 1999-2001) and also the military intervention in Georgia (2008) after the increasing and current pressure on Ukraine.
Will Putin stop there, a truce of war in Ukraine can demonstrate Putin’s real goals that seem to go further, Sweden, Finland and Norway are already moving suspiciously.
Morin affirms there is no doubt that the heroic resistance of President Zelensky, his government, the Ukrainians people surprised Putin and provoked our admiration, I quote because there is an attempt to deconstruct Zelensky who is Jewish as a neo-Nazi, but the war was prolonged.
Morin defends economic sanctions, noting that they also affect those who practice them, but emphasizes that “personally, I am against sanctions that affect culture, music, theater, the arts” and now even science, recently Russian scientific articles were taken from repositories, this is not to say that science is neutral, as it is not, but aims at human progress.
He makes a beautiful reflection when he states: “One of the aspects of tragedy is that we cannot make use of weakness or strength separately and that we are obliged to navigate between the two in an uncertain way”, I only remember that the weak can redeem the strong and vice versa. -versa, finally an agreement.
That it is possible to avoid a nuclear disaster not only through war, but there are nuclear plants in the region (pictured is the abandoned city Pripyat of Chernobyl).
