The Ukraine War - The White Man Loves too Wage War. Just Wondering.

 Just Wondering- The Ukraine War - The White Man Loves to wage war. Dinesh Kumar Kapila

The White Man has loved and continues to love to wage war. This is a fact and no amount of grand cathedrals and artwork and platitudes can cover this up. The White Man in this case would include a geographical cum cultural area traditionally over what encompasses today Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, United Kingdom (high up in the classification- way high), Hungary, Austria, Serbia, Croatia, Rumania, Turkey, Greece mainly. I think we ought to place tiny Belgium here too. Over a few hundred years they were the main nations or kingdoms at war consistently, individually or as an alliance, they just had to wage war. Consistently here implies the ability to wage war was always there, there could be prolonged periods of peace but overall they had to wage war. While simultaneously there would be a great explosion of tremendous explosion of great culture or the arts.

Then the main cultural successor of today also needs to be included. It has now moved to the pole position This is the United States of America, the USA since 1910 or so has moved to take on the leadership of the White Man, whether in science or arts or war or exploration. Then come it’s cultural brothers in arms, Canada and Australia and even New Zealand. These brothers or cousins are always ready to jump in whenever they feel the core philosophy of the White Man is at stake.

Going back to earlier centuries, the main leaders in Warfare were the Greeks and then the Romans. We of course had the Vikings up North in Europe also going about their exploration and conquests. Then later the Germanic tribes moved in and some from Eastern Europe and the Turks. If they were not waging war against each other then they were waging war against African nations and Asian nations. Simultaneously there were certainly great explorations and developments and certainly culture but at the core, the love or rather tendency for the great fight remained and has been a core philosophy and resonates within the elite which actually takes decisions. The common man has on the whole fallen in line and subscribed to the idealism or ideology dished out as the reasoning. The media also tends to play the cultural angle and the sheer need to save Western Values.

It would be wise to only acknowledge that the Arabs, post conversion to Islam, have also shown a great inclination to wage war for conversion as also to spread their culture. But then they have avoided the fig leaf of reasoning and cultural explanations, they were and even now some elements continue to be quite clear about it.

Now if we note the current war. Ukraine and Russia are closer culture wise than the other European nations. It’s an old wise observation, it’s always better to get along with a neighbour, specially a powerful neighbour, rather than incite the neighbour or show an attitude. Straight up, Can Ukraine change it’s geographic position, certainly not. They can love the USA and UK mores and culture and Subway and Zara and McDonald all they like, but they remain a neighbour of Russia. These are the hard facts. Then no matter how much the Western Media May twist it, the great game was certainly on when the then USSR was dismembered. There was an understanding which Ukraine also violated. And who caused it facilitated a revolution is always open to question. Even the raising of a rather militant militia has not been assessed dispassionately.

Now here comes in the tendency of the White Man to wage war, only here it is indirect. The only troops dying or getting wounded are from Ukraine or from Russia. The USA and its most loyal supporter- the UK, have fashioned the narrative wonderfully well. The UK, cut to size, still believes and behaves as a major super power, this only indicates it’s elite retains the cultural affinity for waging war. Here the UK, USA, France and Germany mainly are supplying the weapons and ammunition and encouraging the Ukraine to continue to wage war to the end. The cities of Ukraine are being damaged and destroyed and the nation will be pushed back decades. It will take them years to recover. Only the contractors of the USA, UK and other nations will gain once reconstruction begins, after all the war has to end one day. In fact the economic and financial underpinnings of the wars, previously and later, as such also need to be assessed.

One can understand War to push back an enemy or a blatant conquest, but here a nation was egged on to take on a much more powerful neighbour. If the calculation is that Russia will be weakened considerably for decades, it could be right, but then how would that benefit Ukraine, their citizens have to ultimately realise this, that they are ultimately pawns in the great game. Later they may set up memorials and the like, but it seems this was a war which was certainly avoidable. It is only logical that under prolonged stress, their troops will begin to buckle. How long can they wage war for months with considerable losses and destruction.

The gallantry of the troops of Ukraine is certainly to be saluted but we must acknowledge the guidance and support of the West including its high tech communication platforms and satellites. The Russians with their bumbling around and poor planning have also damaged their own reputation as a superpower.

At no stage is Russia being condoned for its actions and the war. That is a given. But it’s a much larger nation with vast reserves of oil and gas and would have done its own assessment. The fact is that in its obsession with Russia, the USA has overlooked the rise of China and its military prowess and ambitions.

Coming back to the subject, the White Man, In this case USA, UK and France have made Libya into a shambles economically and as a nation and damaged Syria similarly. These were stable nations with better economies but the West wanted their allegiance and failing that, the indirect mode of war was resorted to. What we now have is an unstable region and nothing else.

Just as an aside, the current UK Military Chief has even referred to World War Two while stating his responsibilities and commitment to the continent. This after they quit the EU. The huge hangover off the past centuries seems to weigh heavily specially in the UK.

Coming to the citizens now. It’s a fact that Covid has shaken up the world. We required a period of stability to recover as a World and to set our economy in order. Instead and perhaps to overcome the disaster in Afghanistan, the USA has encouraged the war in Ukraine and the UK jumped in most vigorously and then the rest of Europe. The high fuel prices and inflation and shortage of vital food grain or rare minerals is impacting the common citizen certainly, however they either fail to connect the events or just shrug it off as ultimately it resonates within them as already discussed. The point is the rest of the World is having to suffer economically for no fault of its own. The media narrative is such that the citizens seem to believe the burden they carry of high inflation and its consequences is worth it. Hence the cultural continuity and affinity for war or warfare is apparently ingrained and continues to be so even today. Even for a war which in this case was certainly avoidable. Do we move to a multipolar world, let us see.

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1Rajiv Lochan

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