For over a year and a half a ferocious war has been fought on the
borders of the so-called European Union. A war about which nothing isknown, except what transpires from very tight propaganda. The dozens ofcorrespondents on site are unable to say anything and if, by purechance, in the official media, someone tries to bring up slightly morecomplex reasoning, he is practically considered an idiot.It must be said that, in reality, this type of approach also seems muchmore nuanced today. Not that the information system has made amends inany way for the nonsense it has spouted all these months. The tones aresimply different. The news on the conflict appears more nuanced, thenews on Ukraine no longer appears, even if the habit of indicating thenames and surnames of dead civilians continues. A curious andunprecedented habit if you consider that nothing is known about thethousands of deaths in Palestine (and then they also asked for it, thesesavages). We do not know the names of the 500,000 children left to diedue to the embargo in Iraq and Vietnam, they have been telling us fordecades about the traumas of the poor American soldier, which is notworth mentioning of the 3 million Vietnamese deaths.But the estrangement of our commentators is understandable, who, asalways happens, are much more genuflected towards the master than thejournalists who are at the center of the Empire. It is precisely fromthere, from the leaders' newspapers, that the most reliable news and themost realistic reasoning on the conflict come. And it was from therethat the news arrived in recent days that the massacre at the market inDonbass, which caused such a sensation on our news, was committed by theUkrainians ( https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/18/world/europe/ukraine-missile-kostiantynivka-market.html ).It was evident to the eye that the Russians, evil and demented bydefinition, according to a division of the world worthy of Walt Disney,had not bombed Donbass, given that these are precisely the lands thatRussia itself annexed after decades of inter-ethnic conflict. But ourpeople have just mentioned this piece of news. I think it is right.Moreover, from an information system that broadcasts video games passingthem off as real war (https://www.rollingstone.it/politica/il-tg2-ha-scambiato-la-clip-di-un-videogioco-per-una-rain-of-missilesonukraine/619321/ ) not much is to be expected.In recent years, attacks have been made against "fake news" and theseattacks have come from the Italian press with a courage truly worthy ofother causes, given that our people are truly champions of false news,openly propagandistic to a level unknown even during the Cold War. Thefact that normal people end up believing in unlikely conspiracies islargely due to an information system that has lost all credibility.But let's go back to the war. Which we have often dealt with in thesepages. And we come back to it from a purely strategic, low profile pointof view. First, the dead? The number is unknown, everyone has their sayand each state censors its own. But, here too, the objective truthslowly emerges and, between the "rumours" and the "rumours", a carnageworthy of the First World War seems to unfold. Hundreds of thousands oflives sacrificed without any sense. It will be said that Putin's Russiais particularly ferocious and started the war. Absolutely true. But asfar as ferocity goes, that's it Russia "reasons" (and let's imagine howmuch such reasoning can be in our craw) like any other existing power onearth and it is very probable that the conflict would never have startedif the other powers, primarily the USA, with their armed wing (but paidfor by the EU) of NATO, had not forced their hand to gain hegemony inview of the strategic clash with China.We don't like everyone, but it's curious (but not much to laugh about)that one might think that a nuclear power like Russia could allow NATOto advance right up to our doorstep. The answer is "but the countrieschose freely". Apart from the fact that this is Bar Sport nonsense, buteven if it were, that "freely" concerns those who have joined an armedalliance (not the Voghera bowling club) certainly not the neighboringstates which are not part of the NATO/ OTAN. Otherwise tomorrow Mexicocould enter the "Silk Road" (from whichwe idiotically left by order of the USA) and say that it joined itfreely. The US would be delighted. Come on, what are we talking about?But we were talking about the dead. A bunch. But no one knows who theyare (except, of course, civilians who occasionally fall victim only toRussian missiles). Now, for months, there have been rumors of acounter-offensive that is "going slowly". In military language thissimply means that that counter-offensive failed, exactly as Il Corrieredella Sera headlined in July 1943 about the invasion of Sicily.The US is probably getting tired, they have spent a mountain of money,their ally is unreliable (and also improvident). But, as we know, USallies, from Batista to Noriega, passing through Saddam, the Shah, andthe Kurds, generally do not end well.What no one is able to admit is that that war cannot end with Russia'sdefeat. True, the USA fled Vietnam in 1975, but it was on the other sideof the world. Ukraine does not. Can we really think that after all thesedeaths (and a structural reversal of the world economy) Putin, orwhoever for him, will arrive and say "ok we made a mistake, let's makepeace, take Crimea and Donbass and friends like before"?In this context, the EU, as we have already said, would have hadenormous prairies, proposing peace conferences (which, I remember, beganalmost immediately, except that those who participated on the Ukrainianside were physically eliminated) and gained legitimacy and enormouscredibility - In his "small" way this is being done by Recep TayyipErdogan who, after the failed coup d'état, has become a powerfulbalancer, member of NATO and "guardian" of hundreds of thousands ofrefugees. Strange, they no longer call him "dictator" on the news.Without forgetting that we are faced with a nuclear power. We are allsure that no one will use atomic weapons.But do they know?Andrea Belluccihttps://www.ucadi.org/2023/09/21/guerra-senza-fine/_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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