The only person responsible for a war is always the person who started it, isn't it?
The person who provoked the other to start the war with selected means is not responsible at all, is he?
In the 2006 World Cup final, in the France-Italy match, is Italy's Marco Materazzi not at all responsible for the fact that Zinedine Zidane ended up beheading him, and that's why the latter was sent off? (Of course, Materazzi was not subjected to any criticism later either, I wonder why?) It doesn't matter, does it matter that Materazzi constantly made scandalous, insulting comments about Zidane's mother and sister, that could not tolerate printing presses, which really only our most humble fellow human beings can tolerate in total calmness and silence ?
regarding the background and reasons for the outbreak of the current Russian-Ukrainian war .
This is the next one.
The date: January 20, 2020.
Banker Adam Schiff, head of the Intelligence Committee, an extremely influential think tank on the US government, spoke in the US Congress. He put it as follows:
We need to help Ukraine wage war against Russia so the US doesn't have to.
As a reason, he informed the congressional decision-makers: it is increasingly difficult to get the Americans to accept that their own soldiers fight abroad. On the other hand, America no longer has enough money to fight everywhere. (In Afghanistan, among others.)
That's it. Do I need to say anything else, Ildiko?
Yes, maybe something else.
Pope Francis is an outspoken man. Once, on his way home from one of his trips abroad, he gave an interview to the journalists accompanying him on the plane, as was his custom, and answered their questions.
In connection with a certain topic, he noted this much, jokingly, but very seriously (I am not quoting verbatim): if a person's mother is hurt with words, then the person catches himself and shakes the person because he said something that is not appropriate...
Maybe the United States has sometimes done or said things in recent years that are "inappropriate"?
Isn't it "appropriate" to talk about this?
And I think it's appropriate - and it should be.
Because issues – even a war – require complex and nuanced analysis.
If we do not do this - and the West does not do this - then war will remain forever and there will never be peace. Sed non est pax.
Author: Tamás Fricz, political scientist
Source: Hungarian Nation
Cover photo: Photo published by the Ukrainian presidential press service of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi (b) and a soldier kneeling in front of a squad flag at a commemoration held on the occasion of the first anniversary of the start of the war against Ukraine in Kyiv on February 24, 2023. (Photo: MTI/AP/Ukrainian Presidential Press Service)
