Did you see that this week?
Sweden is on a war footing.
Career soldiers and reservists, civil servants, bus drivers, childminders, thousands of civilians received their “war assignment”.
And according to the daily The worldthe mobilization has only just begun.
We are preparing for a possible Russian invasion.
Sweden, friends!
The latest crisis in this country is a lack of brown dumplings at IKEA in Karlskrona!
THE GEAR
We may not want to be alarmist, but it is difficult not to be stressed when we look at what is happening on the international scene.
When it’s not China getting closer to Russia or Putin threatening—once again—to use nuclear weapons to settle accounts with the “decadent West,” it’s Korea’s bozo. of the North who sends missiles to make people talk about him and show that he is still alive.
In December, Henri Guaino, a former adviser to Sarkozy, published a very interesting text in Le Figaro: “We are walking towards war like sleepwalkers”.
“Neither Churchill nor Roosevelt had thought that one day they would order the massive bombardment of German cities to break the morale of the population, nor Truman that he would end up in 1945 by resorting to the atomic bomb to break Japanese resistance, writes -he.
“Similarly, Kennedy, in sending a few hundred military advisers to Vietnam in 1961, did not expect that eight years later America would commit more than half a million men there, carry out massive napalm bombings there. and would be responsible for the massacre of entire villages.”
In short, what is frightening in this kind of conflict is the escalation.
Once we take the path of war, we don’t know where it can lead us.
As Guaino writes: “In 1914, no European leader was demented, none wanted a world war that would kill twenty million people, but together they started it.
“And at the time of the Treaty of Versailles, no one wanted another world war that would kill sixty million people, but all together they still armed the infernal machine that was going to lead to it.”
THE GOOD THING”
This is what is worrying about the current war in Ukraine.
Neither of the two belligerents is ready to compromise.
Zelensky, because he believes victory not only possible, but certain. After all, he has the US on his side, right?
And Putin, because he would never accept the humiliation of defeat.
And because the majority of Russians saw the Great Seduction of Ukraine by the West as a provocation.
In his text, Guaino tells a revealing story.
As early as September 7, 1914, after only a month of war, the Chief of the German General Staff who had pleaded so much for Germany to attack wrote these words to his wife:
“What torrents of blood flowed! I have the impression that I am responsible for all these horrors and yet I could not act otherwise.
That’s the gear.
You are convinced that you are within your rights.
And by doing what you think is the right thing, you’re setting the planet on fire.
