CHRONICLE — Hear, hear, brave people who fart with fear, the Third World War will not take place, even if rivers of blood are flowing and will continue to flow in Ukraine.
Like any war, a world war is declared. And Putin is not going to do it. He’s not crazy, contrary to what the weak-minded try to make us believe. We – that is, NATO – will not do that either. We will content ourselves with inflicting “economic sanctions” on Russia.
And why don’t we declare war on Russia?
A brief historical reminder is necessary here. Because memories are short, not to say falsified.
The most recent experience of a world war is that of 39-45. So it is interesting to ask how it started?
World War II began because Britain and then France declared war on Nazi Germany. And why did they do it? Because Great Britain had previously granted its guarantee to Poland. As Poland was invaded by Hitler’s troops in September 1939, Great Britain – except to deny its signature – could not fail to come to the aid of Poland. And France followed. Followed on paper. Because, of course, no soldier, neither British nor French, came to the aid of the Poles in October 1939. It was the “phoney war” – funny war in English. Nevertheless: our two countries had entered into a state of belligerence with Hitler’s Germany, and the latter was therefore justified in taking up arms against us. And to inflict on us the dreadful rout of May-June 1940.
The equivalent of the guarantee of Great Britain – at the time the world’s leading strategic power – is today NATO. If Ukraine was in NATO, then World War III would have started, except Putin might have thought more carefully before sending in his tanks. But Ukraine is not one of them. And, therefore, no, we will die neither for Kiev nor for Odessa nor for Mariupol. Relief as loose as it is cozy.
In 1939, the guarantee granted by Great Britain to Poland made it necessary to ask the question: was it necessary to die for Danzig, this Polish port, whose population was mainly German, claimed by Hitler?
This question was, in fact, asked by a certain Marcel Déat, Socialist deputy, on the front page of the left-wing newspaper, The Work May 4, 1939. Déat expressed a feeling that was widely shared. Evidenced by this confidence of Emmanuel Berl to Patrick Modiano, nearly forty years after the publication of the article by Déat “To speak to you frankly, I wanted the Poles to be released. They betrayed us in Munich [septembre 1938] since they had made arrangements with Hitler and had taken Teschen (a town which was on the Czech border and which was annexed in October 1938 by Poland following the Munich agreements). Voltaire said that a maid of honor could be raped three times, but beyond three times, it became suspicious. Poland has been partitioned more than three times. She was too shared. You couldn’t say it was a nation like the others. And then I was convinced of Polish anti-Semitism. So I said to myself that going to be killed for people who had just betrayed you, who were anti-Semitic and who, moreover, would not hold out, that was too much. » [1]
In forty years, will we hear similar odious remarks about Ukraine (a nation like the others?) in the mouth of disillusioned intellectuals?
Well no, since the third world war will not have taken place…
[1] Interrogation by Patrick Modiano. Followed by “It’s sunny, let’s go to the cemetery”. Modiano Patrick and Berl Emmanuel. Gallimard, coll. “Witnesses” 1976, p. 81.