Ukraine: hypocrisy and disillusionment
No one, absolutely no one, denies, at this stage of human civilisation, that wars are cursed and that, although many insist on smearing them with the spirit of freedom and democracy, they have no excuse or justification whatsoever.
It is the fifth day of the week, with another war, vile, miserable and of a meaninglessness that is simply unparalleled. It was all predictable. The diplomatic machinery stopped working with Russia a long time ago and all states took for granted something that had been announced and was to be expected: war! Not for nothing did the United States and the international community as a whole send their citizens out of Ukraine in anticipation of the inevitable Russian offensive. Many did not make it. Ukraine was left, like its people, alone and abandoned. All my solidarity with Ukraine and the Ukrainian people.
Russia lost its credibility a long time ago, the same credibility that the United States and Europe want to regain after the incessant and disastrous swings in their respective positions in the face of such international brutality. Geopolitics? Economic interests?
Ukraine is fighting and must fight for its independence, for its territory recognised by the United Nations. Its women fighters, as we have seen on the news, armed and inexperienced, strive to protect and defend the honour of their homeland to the last inch. Husbands bid farewell to their wives, children to their fathers and vice versa, as the drums of war give way to tears, emotions and bitter farewells, some of which will be forever. Tears of a TV correspondent, demonstrations in Tel Aviv and newspapers denouncing Russia's brutal and inhuman aggression against the Ukrainian people. Even the children were not spared by Putin's war machine.
For its part, the Spanish Professional Football League, contrary to the founding principles of FIFA and UEFA not to involve sport in political, racial, conflict and other issues of segregation or human prejudice, commendably placed a sign next to the scoreboards of the different Primera Division matches, Stop War. The initiative was transcended to all Primera Division teams. Well done!
To see the European and world social fabric very aware of the disastrous consequences of war, rejecting it outright, is a healthy indicator of the global 'awakening' that is taking place in the different fields of work. An awakening in which coherence with our principles must take precedence over any belonging or belief and that freedom is not a gift given selectively to some more than to others. Freedom, Sancho, said Don Quixote, is one of the most precious gifts that the heavens have given to men; with it the treasures that the earth contains and the sea conceals cannot be equalled; for freedom, as well as for honour, one can and must venture one's life.
Now that you agree with Don Quixote and have read this article, change Ukraine for Palestine, Yemen, Syria, Uyghur, Iraq; do not change your mind and, above all, do not fall into hypocrisy or disillusionment.