WHY THE PEACE OF 1945 MUST BE PRESERVED AT ALL COST:
A NEW SUPER POWERS ROUND TABLE SUMMIT IS URGENTLY
NEEDED NOW!!
Next year
will be exactly 70 years since WW2 came to an end bringing to a close the
darkest chapter in the history of the human race. To say WW2 was cataclysmic, would be a gross understatement, because in
the known history of the world, the kind of bloodletting and violence that was
unleashed on the earth by that conflict
has had no parallel ever since or thereafter.
When the
Great War later known as WW1 came to an end on November 11, 1918 following the
signing of the armistice by Germany the world thought it had seen the end of
the most violent conflict ever to take place, considering that over ten million
lives were lost and the conflict devastated much of Europe and the Middle East,
parts of Africa and Asia.
The devastation and loss of life was
unparalleled in history and nobody thought such a conflict could be repeated
again.
Modern man
has however proven that he can not only repeat his actions, but he can out do
himself in bestiality if given a chance.
That is the
sad trait in man that has necessitated the need for statesmen and other world
leaders to gather together urgently to address the need for the world powers to
hold a major summit preferably in Geneva to see how the burning issues that are
threatening the peace of 1945 must be urgently settled now before any
unforeseen and untoward event shatters the fragile veneer of peace we are
clinging to now.
24 years
after the Cold war ended more on a default basis rather than a negotiated
settlement it is pretty obvious that the terms upon which world peace was
secured and which we are still enjoying is being threatened because the
settlement involving the status of the newly freed states of Eastern Europe
were not clearly defined in written terms.
The fact remains however that many of the
world leaders of that era are still alive and can be held accountable for the
agreements both written and unwritten that had defined the post Cold war era.
Prominent among them are former US President George H Bush, former Soviet
leader Mikhail Gorbachev, former German
Chancellor Helmut Kohl , Prime Minister
John Major, French President Francois Mitterrand etc.
Part of
what is greatly needed to defuse the tension in Eastern Europe right now is an
understanding regarding the consensus reached then by the major powers on how
far NATO was permitted to go in its Eastward expansion program, which I believe
is the main reason why tension is boiling in Europe right now and trying to
unsettle the peace of the world.
I submit
regrettably that NATO which was conceived in the 1950’s as a defensive alliance
has over the years obviously on account of the economic decline of Russia in
the years following the end of the Cold War been emboldened to see itself not
only as the guardian angel of Western Europe which was its primary focus but
now to include the safe guard of the independence of the newly freed former
satellite states of the defunct Soviet Union.
That to me
was stretching the mandate of NATO too far beyond its original horizon and now
going all the way to wanting to safe guard the independence of the constituent
states of the defunct Soviet Union against Russia the mother state of the
Soviet Union.
The scenario to me is akin to NATO trying to
protect a lion cub from the mother lioness. How far can such an agenda be
advanced peacefully before a violent conflict breaks out.
The height
of diplomatic folly and madness to me who was already grown up and
knowledgeable of the skillful diplomacy that ensued between Mikhail Gorbachev,
George H Bush and Helmut Kohl over the status of Berlin, the unification of
Germany and the dissolution of the Warsaw pact and the COMECON between 1989 and
1991, was this idea that NATO could conceive of a vision of protecting Ukraine
from Russia!
There are
just some crazy ideas you don’t develop on the world stage except you are
looking for a very bloody confrontation and are bereft of any useful work to
keep you busy which is what I am confident NATO is facing right now. I think
NATO is very desperate for relevance at this point in time when its mission was
gradually winding down by virtue of the sustained peace in Europe particularly
in the post cold war years.
I dare say
that if the Russians are pretty sure that NATO and the US in particular is no
longer interested in meddling in the affairs of the former Soviet States, that
the conflict in the Ukraine would wind up and completely diminish in relevance
and status and die a natural death.
Vladimir
Putin is not a fool neither is he Adolf Hitler as some would seek to portray
him all in a bid to stoke a conflict whose only purpose to me is to threaten
world peace. The man to me is the leader of a nation that has been wounded like
a Lioness that would like to preserve its cubs and Pride’s pride.
As long as the West feels it is within its
purview to continue poking its NATO stick into Russia’s eyes and ribs I dare
say that Europe will know neither peace nor rest. In Africa we have a saying
that says a child that says its mother shall not sleep at night will first have
to forfeit its own sleep first.
Anybody
that has had time to read Putin’s auto biography aptly titled 'Putin’s progress'
would understand why the Russian leader based on the travails of his past life
has a wounded lion’s instinct to preserve itself. To go poking a stick at a
wounded lion to me is not the best way to spend your time or your precious
Dollars obtained with the sweat and hard work of the people of the West.
It seems to
me that there are some unnamed and unseen forces working behind the scene that
are desperate to plunge Europe into a major conflict in this NUCLEAR AGE in which
the only outcome of a full blown confrontation would be the
mutually assured destruction of the
belligerents. Are the Europeans hungry for extinction or obliteration?
That Europe
is on the decline as a center of global power which was the natural result of
the two bloody conflicts of the 20th century, and is also facing the
population declined caused by a birth rate decline that is not self
perpetuating, not enough peril for the European continent the birth place of
the industrial revolution?
The scars
of WW2 have yet to fully heal and we implore the war mongers working behind the
scenes to spark a fresh conflagration to please give peace a chance so we can
one day celebrate the centenary of the end of WW2 in a peaceful world.
To seek a
conflagration at this time in Europe to me is the ultimate CRIME AGAINST
HUMANITY as enshrined in the laws of war defined in the Nuremberg trials in
1945 at the end of WW2.
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