On the War in Ukraine
I do not understand the purpose of a Facebook post about U. S. culpability in causing the war in Ukraine. Is it
supposed to somehow bring about peace in Ukraine? Or is it to defend the
Russian government for waging the war? Or is it just to persuade us that the US
government sucks, too, and should back away from defending Ukraine?
I asked these questions in a comment. One person responded that the post is meant to look "behind the curtain of propaganda" and to apply "critical thinking skills" to the US involvement. The value of that, she said, should be obvious.
I still
don't get what I'm looking for.. I want to hear What do we do with what we
learn about the war, about
the world-wide rise of autocracy and its use of forced or violent oppression,
including in US? As a pacifist, I really want to know the answers to these
questions. If there are answers.
It seems this thread is a fight among people with common
values for peace and democracy. Could it be that in seeing the problem as
dualistic (Ukraine vs Russia or US vs Russia or east vs west or leader vs
leader etc.), economic and class systems that cause world conflicts and war
mostly get lost? Might it be more useful to focus on the systemic problems and seeking solutions to them? For alternative analysis of the problem and possible solutions, see Richard Woolf
"Democracy at Work,."
