Regarding the war in Ukraine, Western public opinion is almost one-sided. The air, which was already filled with the new crown virus, was suddenly filled with hatred and violence. Loud "protests" and creative "sanctions". "Aggression and sovereignty" and "war and peace" are the most sensitive "hard truths" in human society, and how can Russia be tolerated to openly challenge them?
In fact, most people have "intuitive anger", but similar to the "knee jumping reaction" caused by the hammer hitting the knee, this "reflex arc" does not need to go through the brain.
Kipros in the 9th century was the common mother country of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus
But it is by no means that all Westerners have lost the habit of thinking with their brains. U.S. Senator Saunders said this in an interview with National Public Radio:
"The complexity of things is that sometimes you have to put yourself in the shoes of the problem. I wonder, if a country like Mexico signed a military agreement with hostile forces in the United States, would you think it would be tolerated? It is well known that the United States has overthrown at least a dozen Latin American countries. As long as we believe that their policies are not in The interest of the United States. But a lot of times, we're doing this completely wrong. In 1962 we were almost at war. When Russia deploys missiles in Cuba. We consider this to be our own sphere of influence. I think it is very important to understand that Russia is equally worried about hostile military forces around its territory. This is something that should be considered."
Looking around at today's Western politicians and media people, how many can put themselves in the shoes of Sanders and "think differently"?
In 1654 Russia and Ukraine signed the Pereaslav Agreement
In fact, Sanders used Cuba and Latin American countries as a metaphor for Ukraine, and this kind of "empathy" is far from "in place". On the Conflict in Ukraine, hear how Putin positions it.
Putin said: "I repeat, Ukraine is not an ordinary neighbor for us. Ukraine is our own history, our own culture and an integral part of our spiritual space. It is not only a comrade and good friend among our colleagues and friends, but also a blood relative. ”
Americans may never think that "Cuba is our own history, our own culture, an inseparable part of our spiritual space." Cuba and Latin America, at best, are America's close neighbors and backyards, while Ukraine is Russia's infirmary and family, flesh and blood and relatives.
Sanders' "empathy" is to be truly "in place," and Ukraine should be likened to Texas and Alaska in the United States. Both states are the regions with the highest calls for "independence movements." "If one day Texas and Alaska really become independent and form a military alliance with hostile countries, how should the United States feel?"
The Russian Civil War after the October Revolution
In fact, there are far more Americans who can think with their brains than Sanders. In 2014, Kissinger wrote in the Washington Post: "Putin is a serious strategist premised on Russian history, and for the West, demonizing Putin is not a policy, but a missing excuse." For Russia, Ukraine can never be just a foreign country. Russian history began in a place known as Kievan Rus' and from there Russian religion spread. Ukraine has been part of Russia for centuries, and their histories were intertwined before that."
We cannot fail to admire Kissinger's historical insights. If NATO leaders and Ukrainian politicians had heeded the warnings of the century-old man earlier, how much bloodshed and sacrifice would have been spared, and how many protests and sanctions would have been spared?
The historical origins and flesh-and-blood relations of Russia and Ukraine are far from being summarized in a few lines. In the final analysis, today's Russian-Ukrainian conflict is only a "civil war." Just as history textbooks refer to the melee wars in the territory of the former Tsar after the fall of the Romanov dynasty as the "Russian Civil War", after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the conflicts, disputes, changes and aftershocks on the territory of the former Soviet Union were essentially the "civil wars" of the Soviet Union. At present, the sanctions and sieges imposed on Russia by Western countries are just like the armed intervention of the 15-nation coalition against the Soviet Union.
At present, no one has the ability to accurately deduce the progress and conclusion of the Russo-Ukrainian War, but it does not prevent the following conclusions: The Russo-Ukrainian War has forever broken the existing "political pattern" and "world order".
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Cold War ended. The Western world, as a victor, cannot wait to declare the "end of history." But once upon a time, a fair and reasonable "world order" was established that everyone was happy with.
During the "Cold War period," the two sides opposed nato, originally nato headed by the United States and the Warsaw Pact headed by the Soviet Union; since the Soviet Union disintegrated, the CPSU broke up, and the Warsaw Pact was abolished. As the opposite, shouldn't NATO also win the victory and return to the DPRK, and put the swords and guns into the warehouse, and put the horses on the South Mountain?
On December 30, 1922, the Soviet Union was established, and Ukraine was one of the six founding countries.
However, only the "size" of Russia is still too big, and after dismemberment, the "size" is still not "up to the standard", so it must be further "dismembered"; Russia has "donated the threshold" like Xianglin's sister-in-law, but it has forever wanted to redeem the "original sin" of the Soviet Union and become a "normal country"; Russia has submitted to weakness, confessed its "harmlessness to people and animals" everywhere, repeatedly spat out that "if we are not friends, do not regard us as enemies", and even bowed its head and fantasized about joining NATO. But it is a "hot face with a cold ass", only in exchange for NATO's long-term expansion of 5 eastward expansions. Not only will the "satellite countries" of the former Soviet Union be accepted according to the order, but also the "ontological" republics will be devoured. The Russian nation was finally cornered.
The "final conclusion of history" also holds that several generations of Chinese people cannot catch up with the West, and that with the reform, opening up, and accession to the WTO, there will be no suspense of "victory without war", only to wait for the "color revolution" to quietly realize. Where would it be that today China has not only become the world's second largest economy, but also adheres to its own socialist path. Therefore, the "Indo-Pacific Strategy" was urgently deployed, and the containment of China was identified as the primary goal. Not only is the trade war in full swing, but under the spell of Chinese traitors, they have put forward the wonderful idea of "separating the Chinese Communist Party from the Chinese people". Ask Western politicians to ask themselves, do you really love Chinese people? In the era of the Eight-Power Alliance, there was no "obstruction" of the Chinese Communist Party, how did you treat the Chinese people? Without your persecution, where would the Chinese Communist Party have been born? From whom did the Chinese Communist Party "save China"? Today, you regard the subversion of the CCP regime as a national policy, and you are still trying to make a big gamble in Taiwan, which is also to force China into a desperate situation.
The biggest reflection that Western politicians should make from the Russo-Ukrainian War is undoubtedly that "forcing a big country into the Jedi will have consequences", and it may be very serious.
What is urgent and urgent now is how to establish a new world order under the new political structure.
Western politicians, accustomed to a new Cold War mentality, have conceived of a comprehensive confrontation between the "democratic camp" and the "axis of authoritarianism." Who gave you the power to glorify yourself as "democratic" and stigmatize others as "authoritarian"?
A community with a shared future for mankind is the only way for the world to enjoy eternal peace
When we take the protection of biodiversity and the praise of cultural diversity as the value orientation of "universal", why can't we tolerate the diversity of social systems, but must maintain your set of "democracy" and "dictatorship" of the whole world? Why do we have to put mankind in a situation where we are not in the same place, and you are dead and alive, and finally have to invite the atomic bomb that has hibernated for a long time to make a "concluding statement"?
The evolution of human civilization to this day is really very lucky and precious, and it is worth cherishing. Perhaps from a larger coordinate system, we can produce more rational philosophical thinking. When Apollo 11 landed on the moon, a plaque was erected that read: "We are here for the peace of all mankind." Looking up at the bright moon, this famous saying is worth remembering and revisiting from time to time.
The smoke of the Russo-Ukrainian War will eventually drift away. Humanity will continue to live. For some Western politicians, no matter how helpless and reluctant they may be, facing up to and acknowledging the objective existence of others and dispelling and abandoning the idea of subverting others should be the prerequisites for the new international order. "You live, let others live" (Live, and let live) is also the ancient Western wisdom of life. Truly building a community with a shared future for mankind is the only way to achieve long-term peace and stability in the future international order.
Upload a few pictures related to the article for interested friends to enjoy. (Author: Liu Wangxian, originally from Literature City)
In 1918, foreign coalition forces marched into Vladivostok for armed intervention.
In the foreign coalition armed intervention in the Russian civil war, Japan sent 70,000 soldiers, ranking first.
When the German Nazis besieged Kiev in 1941, portraits of Stalin and Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Timoshenko were hung side by side.
German Nazi forces executed Ukrainian partisans.
During the anti-fascist war, 400 Donbas miners were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
The longest-ruling Soviet Fuehrir Brezhnev is Ukrainian, and the family of Brezhnev (front right) in 1914 is taken.
The famous leader of the Soviet Union, Khrushchev, was a "half" Ukrainian, pictured in 1943 Khrushchev and Brezhnev in a Ukrainian barracks.
In 1954 the Soviet Union celebrated the 300th anniversary of the signing of the Pereia Slavic Agreement and gave the Russian territory of Crimea to Ukraine-1.
In 1954 the Soviet Union celebrated the 300th anniversary of the signing of the Pereia Slavic Agreement and gave the Russian territory of Crimea to Ukraine-2.
In 1954 the Soviet Union celebrated the 300th anniversary of the signing of the Pereia Slavic Agreement and gave the Russian territory of Crimea to Ukraine-3.
In 1954 the Soviet Union celebrated the 300th anniversary of the signing of the Pereia Slavic Agreement and gave the Russian territory of Crimea to Ukraine-4.
In 1954 the Soviet Union celebrated the 300th anniversary of the signing of the Pereia Slavic Agreement and gave the Russian territory of Crimea to Ukraine-5.
In 1954 the Soviet Union celebrated the 300th anniversary of the signing of the Pereia Slavic Agreement and gave the Russian territory of Crimea to Ukraine-6.
Photo of a child in a Coal Mine in donbass in the Ukrainian Pictorial in 1977: Growing up as a miner. I sincerely wish her peace and family.
You live, let others live too.
We have come for the peace of all mankind.
The plaque placed on the moon by Apollo 11 in 1969 bears the words of astronauts Armstrong, Aldrin and President Nixon: We are here for peace for all mankind.