Letter: A look at the Ukraine war

To the Editor:

Britain’s “retake Crimea” strategy, which some in Washington are “warming to” as the New York Times insists, has not been taken off the table, but cracks in the consensus that Ukraine must be given everything it needs to win on the battlefield, are growing. Retired German generals are speaking out louder than before. Millions took to the streets in multiple cities across France to express their opposition to policies on the economic front which are delusional, as psychotic, as the military policies that have brought us to the brink of nuclear war.

The Schiller Institute is calling on all citizens, from around the world, to join forces to replace these dangerously “psychotic” policies, which have no relationship to reality, with new ones, befitting human beings. Every sane, think person everywhere should plan to attend the Institute’s Feb. 4 international, online conference which will discuss how we ensure that an “Age of Reason” replaces the otherwise ensured annihilation of humanity” under psychotic policies. The invitation gives hope; it should be clear to any sane person that global war will be nuclear and that will be the end of civilization. So, it is completely insane to plan for it. And to deny the countries of the Global South access to cooperation with the BRI (Belt and Road Initiative), which is, for the first time, giving hope to the developing sector to overcome poverty and underdevelopment, is outright evil.

It is therefore more urgent than ever to find forces for peace in all countries of the world, who understand that we need to move to a new paradigm in international relations… We have to discuss the principles upon which the future order of humanity can be built in order to be able to self-govern ourselves. The future world order must guarantee the life and creative potential of every person on the planet, and therefore must eliminate hunger, poverty and underdevelopment.

Another reflection of that thinking is the courageous and agapic offer of the Vatican as a venue for a negotiated solution by the Pope to the Ukraine war.

Ron Wieczorek

Mitchell