Bad agreements and threats
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Mar
On the same day (March 18) as the partial truce
agreement (only the attack on Ukrainian energy stations and ships in Russia’s Black Sea), Ukraine claimed to have been attacked at 8 energy stations.
Russia wants the Russian state bank to be reconnected to the international payment system, but Europe rejects this position, saying that this will only happen when Russia withdraws all troops from Ukraine.
One thing is clear about Putin’s personality: he is a clue, but he doesn’t bluff. When he made the peace agreement on Crimea, curiously enough on March 18, 2014, in Putin’s view he is doing the same as NATO, advancing on enemy terrain and demarcating positions.
Europe fears further advances on NATO countries, judging by history Poland could be the next step, there Hitler advanced in WWII and the regime established by the Soviet state in the post-war period was also cruel to the Polish people, remember the revolts of the Solidarity Union in Gdansk, already in the final period of General Jaruzelski’s regime.
Truce agreements have little support because there are no “neutral” forces to guarantee them.
The Middle East is also living under bad agreements: after the Hamas-Israel agreement, there has been little or no progress towards a broader truce, the recognition of Palestinian territory has not moved forward, Israel and the US want to maintain control of the region under the threat of new attacks on Israel.
Iran is a character in the shadows of this war, because it finances and supports extremist groups. Trump’s threat to bomb Tehran was met with the response that the US will receive a “reciprocal blow”, what Trump wants is a new nuclear agreement to limit Iran’s nuclear weapons, it is worth remembering that they are partners with Russia, which already has a vast nuclear arsenal.
The world is in the shadow of an insane war, and those who don’t think about this insanity don’t know the horrors and consequences of a war today.
The figure above is a sculpture made by Marie Uchytilová in Lydice, Czech Republic, in memory of a group of 82 children asphyxiated with gas in the Chelmno extermination camp in the summer of 1942.
